Simon is Joint Headteacher at Frank Wise school, a community special school for children aged between two and nineteen with severe or profound and multiple learning disabilities. He has sat on the DfE panels developing both the Professional Standards for Teaching Assistants and the Standard for Teachers’ Professional Development and is currently representing SEND on the Teaching School Hubs Council. He has also helped lead the DfE's SEND Workforce Reform Contract (Whole School SEND) and has supported the writing of the NPQ Behaviour and Culture, NPQ SENCO and DfE guidance on Initial Teacher Training: Special Schools and Alternative Provision. He regularly writes and contributes comment and content to a range of publications and events on the theme of SEND, and has recently been awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Education by Brookes University for his work in SEND.