National social care data portal for Wales

I lead on developing and implementing the strategic approach to social care data in Wales. This means helping people and organisations who work in social care in Wales to be better at collecting, using and sharing their data. I also manage a team of data professionals in Social Care Wales to achieve our strategy and to manage Social Care Wales’s own data. I’ve spent most of my career working in data and digital roles in social care. I worked for a local authority for over 20 years, ending up as the Performance and Information Manager for children’s services. Before joining Social Care Wales, I worked as a senior policy lead in Welsh Government, working in the team that developed the Performance and Improvement Framework for social care in Wales. I'm passionate about usability and accessibility of data and digital and am undertaking a research degree in Human Computer Interaction at Swansea University.

I’m responsible for the maintenance and development of the National Social Care Data Portal My job is to gather data from different sources like Welsh Government or Social Care Wales for the portal and use that data to create meaningful and useful content. I worked as a data journalist across national and regional newspapers in the UK before joining Social Care Wales in November 2022.   After starting as a local weekly reporter in Kent I joined WalesOnline in 2010.  While working at WalesOnline I launched the Datastore – a repository for the data and graphics relating to stories published in Welsh newspapers.   Later, I became the editor of the Reach Data Unit after being instrumental in setting up and developing it. The unit produces in-depth data journalism projects and interactive content that’s published across Reach’s national and regional titles.