Meet The Team

Amanda is a highly skilled and experienced safeguarding trainer with over 20 years’ experience delivering training to Charities, Education and Fostering with a focus in Domestic Abuse, Exploitation, addiction and Radicalisation.

Anne-Marie is a safeguarding consultant and trainer with over 30 years’ experience working as a detective and safeguarding specialist in the police. Anne-Marie holds a passion for child protection and interviewing vulnerable witnesses and thrives to provide engaging and informative training through sharing her own experiences as an investigator.

Caroline is Registered Mental Health Nurse with a career spanning over 30 years working with Children and Adults, Mental Health, Learning Disability and Autism.

Catherine has over 30 years’ experience in post-16 education through working as a teacher, manager and Vice Principal. Due to Catherine’s background, she is highly experienced in the strategic requirements of an organisation such as policy development and reviewing processes and procedures. Further to this, Catherine is passionate about external supervision and providing this service for Safeguarding leads and their teams to ensure staff are well supported.

”Dave has a long and extensive experience working within Child Protection and Safeguarding, both within policing and for a Safeguarding Children Partnership.”

Deborah is an experienced safeguarding children and adult at risk trainer and consultant. She has 35 years experience in the fields of Social Care, Learning and Development, criminal justice and education.

With over fourteen years’ experience, Ed is a highly qualified Domestic Abuse Advisor (IDVA) working with both male and female perpetrators and survivors of domestic abuse. Ed’s training aims to equip professionals with the skills, knowledge and understanding to assess and address the risks where there is Domestic Abuse.

Fiona is a Registered Nurse based in Scotland with a background in adult mental health. Fiona also has extensive experience working across statutory and non-statutory agencies for safeguarding children.

“Ian is currently a safeguarding advisor for education with a London local authority as well as working independently with schools, charities, and sports clubs, providing training, consultancy and safeguarding compliance reviews to all phases of education.”

Jonathan is an expert Online Safety & Social media Awareness Consultant who works with Schools nationally and internationally. He delivers leading Online Safety Workshops for Staff, Students and Parents.

Karen’s professional background is in health, mental health and learning disability, with the last 20 years focusing on safeguarding and public protection, including risk assessments and reviews.

Karen is a proficient classroom practitioner with thirty years’ experience teaching languages in a variety of independent, boarding, and state schools in the UK.

Linda has over 25 years’ experience working within the education sector and as a child protection trainer for local safeguarding partnerships.

“With a background in social care and the justice system but more recently many years in the voluntary sector leading on safeguarding, Lindsay delivers high quality, engaging and inclusive training to those from board level to frontline staff.”

Nina has extensive experience leading safeguarding services for both statutory and non-statutory sectors within the UK and overseas. Due to working within different sectors such as Education, Social work and Charities (to name a select few) for both the UK and overseas, Nina is able to understand safeguarding from different perspectives and thus develop successful safeguarding cultures through training and consultancy.

Rachel is a safeguarding consultant and trainer with 31 years experience working in the Police, mostly as a detective and safeguarding specialist.

Sam has over 31 years experience working within the police and specialising in safeguarding and investigations. Sam was an accredited Child Abuse and Adult Abuse Investigator and was the force lead for Domestic Abuse, Rape, Stalking & Central Safeguarding. Sam is passionate about safeguarding and supporting individuals with their learning thus ultimately improving outcomes for vulnerable adults and young people.

Sara has 30 years experience working within the Police and has undertaken specialist roles within safeguarding and Family Liaison. Sara has extensive experience in advanced interviewing of offenders for complex investigations as well as training detectives and outside agencies in visually recorded interviewing of children & adults, including FLO and MOSOVO.

Sophie is a safeguarding and child protection professional with over 20 years’ experience. A creative and effective consultant and trainer, committed to the development and improvement of child led practice.

“As an experienced investigator and international trainer Tessa has first-hand experience of a variety of cultures and backgrounds and firmly believes this has helped her to become a dynamic motivated and inclusive deliverer of safeguarding training.”

“Tom completed the Child Exploitation and On-line Protection Centre’s (CEOP) Behavioural Analysis Unit’s accreditation programme for Forensic Behavioural Analysts”.

“Yana specialises in equality and diversity, gender-based violence, domestic violence and providing psycho-social training for survivors who have suffered sex-trafficking, FGM and early forced marriage. With a background in journalism, Yana’s training and workshops promise to be thought-provoking and skill-enhancing.”