Steve Crocker is a non-executive board member at the Department for Education, joining in March 2025. Steve has impressive local authority leadership expertise in children’s social care with a deep understanding of service delivery and sector-wide improvement. He is currently: an Improvement Adviser at Bristol City Council and Oxfordshire County Council Chair of the Children’s Social Care Market Interventions Advisory Group and the SEN Change Programme Advisory Group at the Department for Education Independent Lead Reviewer, working on the review of the Youth Justice Board at the Ministry of Justice Steve is also a governor at the Pathways SEN School.