Chris has been working in primary school education for around 30 years. For the majority of that time, he was a class teacher and then the headteacher of two mainstream primary schools. He has been the academy lead at the Forwards Centre, a primary aged pupil referral unit since 2016. The centre works with pupils excluded from primary schools and his doctoral work looked at developing an understanding of inclusive practice for those pupils excluded from (and at risk of exclusion from) mainstream education.