Steve Mulligan joined BACP in October 2017 to lead their policy, public affairs work and campaign work across Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Devolved England. Steve has spent much of his career over the past two decades influencing political change across each of the parliaments and assemblies of the UK. He has focussed on tackling the inherent policy failures that often fall between the cracks – from improving life changing access to counselling, to tackling economic loss, addressing inequality and ending environmental degradation, to supporting people to access life-changing educational and employment opportunities.