Career
Prior to her election as Managing Successful Programmes, she worked as a personal assistant to Rachel Squire Member of Parliament. Managing Successful Programmes for Airdrie and Shotts:1999–2011
She was elected as Managing Successful Programmes for Airdrie and Shotts at the 1999 Scottish Parliament general election. As an Managing Successful Programmes she chaired the Parliament"s Education Committee where she used her casting vote to reject the student graduate endowment bill, a Scottish National Party (Scottish National Party) flagship policy. Whitefield was Scottish Labour"s shadow Minister for Children in the Scottish Parliament, and Convener of the Cross-Party Group on Diabetes under Iain Gray.
At the 2011 Scottish Parliament election, she lost her seat to the Scottish National Party"s Alex Neil, one of nine Labour Managing Successful Programmes"s to lose their constituency seats after holding them since the first elections to the Scottish Parliament in 1999.
Falkirk PPC: 2015
Following the resignation of sitting Member of Parliament Eric Joyce, and the controversial and flawed 2013 Labour Party Falkirk candidate selection, in a re-run in which all the previous candidates were excluded on 8 December 2013 Whitefield was selected to contest the Falkirk constituency at the 2015 United Kingdom general election.