Helen Waite
Deputy Director - Department for Education (DfE)
Helen has worked as a Civil Servant since leaving University. She has spent a large portion of her career at DWP working on a range of policies including labour market and employability, support for disabled people, and the troubled families programme. She joined DfE in 2018 initially taking a role on Early Years Policy before moving to her current post in November. Helen works and lives in Sheffield, and is married with two children.