Dr. Halit Hulusi is the Head of SEND at Staffordshire County Council. With over 25 years’ experience working with children and young people with SEND. Starting his career as a teacher, then as an Educational Psychologist, Dr Hulusi has led educational psychology services in Solihull, Birmingham. He is now embarking on a journey to transform SEND services in Staffordshire. He has also been a professional and academic tutor on the ‘Child, Community and Educational Professional Doctoral Program’ at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust with academic publications in peer reviewed journals over the last 15 years in areas such as preventing radicalisation, psychological approaches in supervision and support for teachers, working with newly arrived children and young people and SEND tribunals and mediation.