Suzanne Taylor Email and Phone Number

• Strategic level consultancy. Focused on safeguarding partnerships, schools and voluntary sector to identify and respond to child sexual abuse and exploitation• Advising on change programmes including set up, governance, embedding and impact monitoring• Developing resources based on victim/survivors' voice• Representing the CSA Centre at local and national events• Networking to find opportunities to collaborate• Influencing policy and practice at a national level

Led the charity’s national work on child sexual abuse and criminal exploitation Lead the development and implementation of the core priority Programme to achieve systemic change to improve the circumstances for children at risk of or being exploited. Including complex budget. Manage a specialist team of National Programme Development Managers Develop and manage internal and external stakeholder relationships.  Identify, set up and lead 2 multiyear place-based system change programmes focussed on long term change for children and their families. Provide thought leadership across the charity in developing ‘what works’ in relation to services and influencing key stakeholders and partnersAchievements:  Excellent external evaluation of our partnerships impact. See media below for link to East Riding evaluation  Captured the experiences of over 100 children and families though our work to understand what accessing support services is like in the 2022/23 and created resources based on these – see media below for links 100 colleagues from across the UK through a new extended training and development pilot. Evaluation has evidenced excellent impact to date. This along with other work has been featured in Coram Innovation Incubator – see media below for link Collaboratively developed a language guide aimed at professionals and decision makers centred on young people and parents/carers lived experiences and research. See media below for link. This has been cited by NSPCC and others Why language matters: why we shouldn’t talk about the ‘risky behaviour’ of young people experiencing abuse | NSPCC Learning  Selected to attend various events on behalf of the charity including House of Commons Summer Reception and Buckingham Palace United Nations Day for elimination of violence against girls and young women.  Regularly presenting at national conferences on effective practice and building partnerships to improve the response to child sexual abuse.

My role: Management of 26 staff, plus seconded staff and volunteers, the statutory and operational delivery across the Youth Justice Service, including budgets management and policy / procedures compliance Leadership of the statutory youth justice function, prevention and diversion, resettlement form custody and our support for victims of crime Responsible for a complex portfolio of commissioned and co delivered projects including getting out for good (girls and young women’s project), contextual safguarding pilot and specialist mentoring. Responsibility for Oldham highly successful return home interview service Member of Oldham safeguarding partnership and I sat on the local child safeguarding practice review panel. Lead for complex and contextual safeguarding and various other risk and safeguarding related forums. Charity led for safeguarding and Prevent Panel member.Achievements:  My appointment was in response to HMIP Inspection in 2013 where there were significant improvements required across the service. In 2018 the HMIP inspection stated the vast majority of our work was ‘outstanding’. I led the post inspection improvement plan and service remodel. Managed our trauma informed service development, which saw a year-on-year reduction in reoffending over 4 years, reduced number of children in custody, improved sentencing outcomes and assessment quality. Missing from home service consistently maintained over 90% of return home interviews completed within 72 hours. Led audits across the local authority on harmful sexual behaviour focussing on local authority safeguarding practice. Invited member of the Youth Justice board Workforce Development Council. Specialist group chair for positive action for minorities communities

 Effectively presented the service in Magistrate and Crown Courts as Court Officer Clear and concise decision making on sentencing recommendations along with thorough assessments consistently gained praise from Magistrates and Judges on Pre-Sentence Reports Specialised in assessment of and intervention work with violent and sexual offenders. Praise received from parents on impact of the group intervention for violent young men I co designed. This work reduced frequency and seriousness of violent offences. Presented at MAPPA and other risk management forums. Supervised many young people and their families on successful resettlement from secure units or prisons to reduce reoffending. Manged the post court team and specialist group work programmes. Chaired high risk meetings related to young people and held professionals to account.  Successfully implemented Spotlight partnership with Police for persistent and priority offenders across the borough to improve partnership working.