Dr Victoria Flanagan is a policy analyst for Uniting NSW/ACT, where her work focuses on youth transitions and the two programs (Extended Care and Foyer Central) currently run by Uniting. She has previously worked as Senior Adviser to the National Children’s Commissioner and also for the NSW Department of Education. She began her career as an academic at Macquarie University, where she was the Program Director of the Master of Children’s Literature program from 2008-17.