[3] Kock-Petersen also worked as a Sunday school teacher at Brorsons Kirke as well becoming a member of Nørrebro's Local Council between 1965 and 1973 and the City of Copenhagen's advisory youth committee from 1967 to 1973.
Kock-Petersen worked as a secretary and later clerk at National Association of Local Authorities [da] from 1973 to 1978 and then became an assistant for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1979.
[6] At the 1984 Danish general election on 10 January, she won re-election to the Folketing, this time as the representative of the Vestsjælland County [da] constituency.
[3] A cabinet reshuffle in 1986 saw Kock-Petersen removed as Minister for Social Affairs and she was appointed a member of the board for both The Mission among the Homeless and SJL Bank.
[1][2] She and her two children secretly relocated to the United Kingdom and settled in Bedford, north of London and no longer makes any public appearances.