Jane French is a psychologist with extensive experience across human and social services. Jane commenced her working life in the Victorian Government as a Child Protection Practitioner where she spent approximately a decade in various roles focussed on protecting and supporting vulnerable children. Jane was a Manager in KPMG's Government Advisory Service leading projects and providing advice to Governments around Australia on health and human service systems and programs - including scoping the first National Plan to Reduce Violence Against Women and their Children. She was the lead writer of the first Common Risk Assessment Framework for Domestic Family Violence in Victoria. She worked closely with the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse to develop the support system wrapped around victim-survivors, and developing and implementing a support system for staff. Jane's professional life has been focused on improving outcomes for vulnerable women, children and families. As the Deputy Chief Executive of Life Without Barriers, Jane lead the largest child, youth and family program in Australia. She is currently the Head of the Leaving Violence Program, delivered by Telstra Health on behalf of the Australian Government.