Phil started his career in local government in Kent in 2000 as a graduate trainee. He had a wide variety of roles across Kent Council before becoming programme director for Transformation in Adult Social Care. He left Kent in 2008, spending 3 years in private sector consultancy first with Deloitte and then with Ernst and Young. Phil then went back into local government in 2011 at Brent Council, starting in Adult Social Care. He became the Director of Adult Social Services in 2013, and then in 2016 took on the leadership of a range of other services: Housing (including homelessness, licensing, council housing management and delivery of over 700 new council homes), Health, Public Health, Leisure and Culture (which included leading Brent’s £4.5m Borough of Culture programme in 2020). Phil joined Sefton Council as Chief Executive in July 2023 from Brent Council. Since joining Sefton Council, Phil has been focused on improving children’s services; the development and delivery of the Council’s corporate and transformation plan, and building relationships with partners in the private, public and voluntary and community sectors across all areas of work and parts of the Borough to deliver on our priorities of communities (listening to our residents), collaboration (working with people and partners to make things happen) and ambition (a commitment to ensure Sefton is an even better place to live, work and visit).