Having begun her career in Local Government 15 years ago Edith has held roles working in community development and neighbourhood management, working with local communities to co design solutions to their priorities and provide a voice for the seldom heard, working in both Northamptonshire and LB Barking and Dagenham. Edith uses this as an essential foundation within her current role where she is the lead officer responsible for providing the Council with policy advice across a range of areas; driving innovation, improvement and a can do culture; overseeing the corporate community sector grants programme, building relationships to enhance and empower the local community and voluntary sector; ensuring that the Council meets all of its equality duties and has a positive and responsive relationship with its residents, voluntary groups and communities; delivers significant corporate programmes including, UNICEF Child Friendly Borough, Census, Climate Crisis and acting as the Council’s statutory scrutiny officer to ensure an effective scrutiny service is run.