My Services

Guiding you through thorough safeguarding solutions tailored to your needs.

Learning & Development

I offer a bespoke learning courses that are tailored to equip your staff with the knowledge, skills and confidence needed to work with the people you serve to help them to be safer.

Training is available in both virtual and physical classrooms and as a modular course. This offers participants time to absorb the learning and embed theory into practice before learning another subject.

From frontline workers to senior leadership, I provide workshops and training sessions tailored to various roles within your organisation. Topics covered include domestic abuse, modern slavery, Prevent, child exploitation, safer recruitment, and how to respond to disclosures of abuse. I also train staff on safeguarding legislation, information sharing, and making effective referrals. My training programmes are designed to be practical and interactive, ensuring your team can confidently apply safeguarding practices in real-world situations. To support the learning in transferring form theory into practice, I recommend a reflective practice session around four to six weeks after.

Consultancy

At Safer Consultancy, I provide tailored safeguarding consultancy services that address the unique challenges faced by health and social care organisations. Whether you’re navigating complex safeguarding cases, improving your policy framework, or ensuring regulatory compliance, I offer clear, actionable advice rooted in over twenty years experience.

My consultancy spans key areas such as safer recruitment, managing allegations, and developing safeguarding strategies that integrate into your day-to-day operations. With a systemic approach, I help organisations build a safer safeguarding culture, ensuring that safeguarding practices are not just reactive but embedded into every aspect of your work.

Coaching

My safeguarding coaching service is designed to support leaders in developing their strategic and operational safeguarding skills. Through one-on-one sessions, I provide personalised guidance, helping you navigate complex safeguarding scenarios, build your confidence in decision-making, and foster a culture of accountability and psychological safety within your organisation. Whether you're new to safeguarding or have years of experience, my coaching will help you refine your skills, address specific challenges, and strengthen your ability to lead on safeguarding.

Reflective Practice

Case Reviews

Reflective practice is an invaluable tool for professionals involved in safeguarding. At Safer Consultancy, I facilitate reflective practice sessions that allow staff at all levels to critically assess their safeguarding work in a supportive environment. These sessions encourage reflection on complex cases, decision-making processes, and emotional responses, helping professionals gain deeper insights and improve future practice. By creating a safe space for reflection, I aim to enhance professional growth, support well-being, and strengthen safeguarding outcomes.

I can support in conducting thorough and objective case reviews, including serious safeguarding incidents, root cause analyses, and statutory reviews such as Domestic Homicide Reviews, Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews, and Rapid Reviews. My experience in leading and advising on these reviews ensures that they are conducted with professionalism, transparency, and adherence to regulatory standards. I work closely with your organisation to understand the context, identify lessons learned, and provide practical recommendations for improving future safeguarding practice. Whether it's a high-profile case or an internal review, my goal is to help your organisation respond effectively and prevent future incidents.

Relevant Experience

o Responsible all safeguarding policies and procedures across a large health and social care charity, including writing a domestic abuse policy for how to support staff experiencing domestic abuse and another for staff experiencing stalking.

o Extensive experience of regulatory bodies and notification responsibilities such as the Charity Commission and the care quality commission, including advising boards on recommendations under the Reporting of Serious Incidents framework and what their responsibilities are.

o Oversaw development and delivery of a large charity's compliance with intercollegiate document to level 5 for safeguarding training. Including frontline staff, nurses and clinicians and leadership.

o Development and delivery of training/workshops to front line staff, designated safeguarding leads, clinicians, registered managers and senior leadership on many safeguarding subjects for both adults and children. These include domestic abuse, safeguarding leadership, information sharing legislation in safeguarding, partnership working, making effective referrals, how to respond to disclosures of abuse, Modern Slavery and Prevent.

o Spoke at a data conference on the role of data in identifying domestic abuse and multiple workshops around the Country in 2023.

o Wrote specification for a case management system to securely record the information about a perpetrator of domestic abuse when they don’t know that their partner is accessing support.

o Sat on the first Youth MARAC, that was recognised as best practice in 2010.

o Accredited trainer in domestic abuse breaking free since 2012, and child exploitation and young violence through AVA, since 2014.

o Facilitate reflective practice sessions with safeguarding leads, social workers.

o Jointly led on research with centre of expertise in childhood sexual abuse and the importance of routine enquiry, externally evaluated and published in 2020.

o Trained registered managers and specialists in how to conduct rapid reviews, domestic homicide reviews, Child Safeguarding Practice Panel Reviews, attend the panels and a specialist team in how to be critical friends for these reports.

o Multiple root cause analyses from smaller 300k to large £3-21M health and social care services. Including young people substance misuse services, adult substance misuse services, rehabilitation unit, supported housing.

o Whole organisation investigations into serious safeguarding incidents, including in safer recruitment processes following two serious safeguarding incidents. The recommendations formed the basis for the below safer recruitment policy improvement changes.

o Development and implementation of improved safer recruitment processes across a third billion-pound national health and social care charity. Including policy, guidance, development of a DBS assessment matrix, chairing of national panels.