This document outlines the priorities and values of Gordon Jeyes, the National Director of Children & Families. The key priorities include putting the well-being and interests of children first, ensuring children are heard in decisions affecting them and given opportunities to influence policy changes. Other priorities are implementing consistent child protection procedures, reforming services for children in care, and promoting multidisciplinary collaboration and community engagement. The values emphasized are clarity of expectations, diversity of responses, quality of outcomes, and consistency, with the overarching goal of making children's needs the highest priority.

1. Gordon Jeyes National Director of Children & Families e-mail: [email_address] Always Children First