Jo R has previously worked in a local authority for over ten years. She has completed numerous assessments of adults involving: anger and challenging behaviour, substance misuse issues, difficult to engage, criminal activity, mental health difficulties, learning difficulties (PAMS 3 assessments), domestic violence, historical childhood abuse, prostitution, abuse, parenting skills, custodial sentences for child cruelty, risk to children, social isolation and deprivation, Huntington’s disease. She has worked with children and young people who have: experienced neglect or physical, emotional and sexual abuse, behavioural difficulties and attachment disorders, mental health problems, learning difficulties, been perpetrators of abuse, offending behaviours.