Founding Director of The Safeguarding Group, an organisation committed to improving the quality and consistency of welfare services across all settings where children require protecting.As a company, we offer bespoke consultancy, leadership capacity, supervision to others, auditing and improvement plans, training and other services to help organisations big and small with their welfare, safeguarding and barriers to learning needs.

Training, Consultancy and Supervision for education provisions, especially Further and Higher Education. Specialist in contextualised safeguarding, challenging behaviour and barriers to learning.

Freelance Expert at The National College, creating educational training content focusing on behaviour, safeguarding, legislation, leadership and organisational development.

Interim Senior Leader with Quest Academy - part of the MacIntyre Academies Group. Consulting on Behaviour Management, Safeguarding, Barriers to Learning and offering Senior Leadership capacity.

Education Lead at Local Authority. Responsible for co-ordinating the liaison between Primary, Secondary, Alternative and Further Education provisions and Children's Services.Guidance, advice and challenge to governance and senior leadership teams on their safeguarding provisions and support for vulnerable young people.

This role focused on training teachers within the college and as an external consultant in practical behavioural strategies and theory. This was key to ensuring educational professionals had a sound understanding of the motivators for challenging behaviour and developed an empathy for working with children and young people who display these behaviours.

Active law enforcement with a strong focus on Mental Health, Juvenile Offending and Behavioural Recidivism.

As the East Kent Education Co-ordinator for the Youth Offending Service I worked with young people open to the YOS to support them with their statutory education and offending behaviour.The lions share of the work was with associated agencies such as Local Authorities, Care Providers, Fostering Agencies and private education providers such as PRUs, ACPs and Secure Units to advise on managing challenging and offending behaviour through innovative and creative education.I managed a… Show more As the East Kent Education Co-ordinator for the Youth Offending Service I worked with young people open to the YOS to support them with their statutory education and offending behaviour.The lions share of the work was with associated agencies such as Local Authorities, Care Providers, Fostering Agencies and private education providers such as PRUs, ACPs and Secure Units to advise on managing challenging and offending behaviour through innovative and creative education.I managed a caseload of Young People who were subject to a Youth Justice Order and considered NEET (Not in Education Employment or Training) with a goal of re-integrating them back into education or training and away from ongoing negative recidivism and offending. I managed a small team of support workers who completed this work with me in line with agreed and structured education plans designed to re-engage disaffected young people.Prior to my appointment to this role and alongside it I was also seconded to an interim 6 month role as East Kent’s Integrated Resettlement Service Co-ordinator. Predominantly based from Cookham Wood Young Offenders Institute and Medway Secure Training Centre both in Rochester my West Kent counterpart and I co-ordinated the exit strategy, resettlement and future supervision of every young person leaving custody and returning to or being placed in Kent. Show less

Within this role I developed support plans for high risk young offenders within Kent subject to criminal sentences. This included the forensic assessment of young people coupled with accessing and co-ordinating support from a wide range of internal and external partners to complete a comprehensive package to drive the young person away from further recidivist offending. This was supplemented by ongoing and invasive surveillance of the subject to disrupt and monitor their criminal lives and gain… Show more Within this role I developed support plans for high risk young offenders within Kent subject to criminal sentences. This included the forensic assessment of young people coupled with accessing and co-ordinating support from a wide range of internal and external partners to complete a comprehensive package to drive the young person away from further recidivist offending. This was supplemented by ongoing and invasive surveillance of the subject to disrupt and monitor their criminal lives and gain intelligence on their movements. Show less

As an Educational Care Worker my main remit was the ongoing educational and pastoral development of the young people in my care. I used Care and Education plans, Child Risk Assessments and Behaviour Support Plans whilst in this role. I was also a Key Worker for one particular child and so was responsible for ensuring all their files and documentation was present, up to date and correct whilst acting as the primary advocate for their future. Using these and an in depth personal knowledge of… Show more As an Educational Care Worker my main remit was the ongoing educational and pastoral development of the young people in my care. I used Care and Education plans, Child Risk Assessments and Behaviour Support Plans whilst in this role. I was also a Key Worker for one particular child and so was responsible for ensuring all their files and documentation was present, up to date and correct whilst acting as the primary advocate for their future. Using these and an in depth personal knowledge of their vulnerabilities, strengths and behaviours I aimed to guide their development through some of the trickiest years of their life.I spent half of my working life assigned to one of the 8 houses on site looking after the children in their daily lives. My particular area of knowledge is education and so it was my role to ensure that the young people were given the opportunity to learn new skills whether at school or around the house.The other half of my role was spent at the attached Caldecott School. Within this role I worked in close partnership with the Head of Behaviour and Student Support Coordinators. Practically this includes support for Teachers and T.A’s to keep good order in the learning environment, whether through the implementation of a leftfield curriculum to inspire and engage, 1 to 1 work with individuals or in the worst case situations physically intervening for the safety of all involved.Whether supporting their education or caring for them in a residential setting the eventual goal was a smooth transition to fostering, back to their parents or on to a positive, independent life beyond care. Show less

Behavioural Specialist in Social, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties School in Canterbury working with statemented Young People in a therapeutic educational setting.