Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF), British government department responsible for all issues affecting people up to the age of 19 including child protection and education
She is the DCSF's STEM Careers Champion (NSCC), and is Education Ambassador for the Bloodhound Engineering Adventure, which plans to break the world land speed record.
On 16 June 2009 the new Schools Minister, Vernon Coaker, announced that from 1 October 2009 PfS would also take on the responsibility for the distribution of capital for the Primary Capital Programme, Devolved Formula Capital and the Targeted Capital programme on behalf of the DCSF.