Hannah Kirkbride

When a child can can no longer be parented at home, the state steps in. The child becomes the ward of the state, or the corporate parent. These children have done nothing wrong but their health and life outcomes can be dramatically affected. Hannah Kirkbridge challenges our assumptions about the care system and challenges us to ‘see more’ in care experienced people.

How the care system affects career prospects

Hannah is founder and CEO of Career Matters, a social enterprise established to improve access to education, employment and training for all and committed to diversity and inclusion and enabling access to those most removed from traditional pathways into education and employment.

Hannah has twenty years’ experience both as a career, skills and apprenticeship practitioner delivering high quality information, advice and guidance support and as a senior leader delivering education, employment, training, skill and career development services. Currently leading the national roll out of the Lived Experience Charter commissioned by NHS England to design.