Kate Steadman has joined Sodexo as its government relations manager, a newly created role. Steadman will primarily support Kalyx, Sodexo's prisons business, as well as helping to develop specific corporate projects supporting Tony Cooke, who was recruited to the role of government relations director in 2009. Most recently Steadman was simultaneously the adviser on prisons and probation to the shadow prisons minister and the shadow secretary of state for justice as well as assisting the shadow attorney general with policy development.