Protecting the vulnerable is at the heart of effective policing. Salterton provides specialist advisory and implementation support for all safeguarding matters, including Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) and Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (CSEA), drawing on senior practitioners who have led in these areas in the UK and internationally.
We help organisations design and implement multi-agency safeguarding hubs, improve their domestic abuse response, and build the cultural and procedural foundations for lasting change in how they protect vulnerable people. Our experience extends to establishing national safeguarding structures, policies and practices, working alongside governments, law enforcement agencies and partner organisations to embed effective protection.
Our specialists support across the range of safeguarding activities including best practice, legal, regulatory and policy reviews. Our experience includes designing a multi-agency safeguarding hub (MASH), overseeing the build and implementation. We undertake operational reviews in cases of vulnerable missing persons and domestic homicides and provide strategic investigatory advice.
We undertake VAWG strategy development and implementation support, develop mandatory reporting frameworks and delivery cultural change programmes to embed safeguarding as an organisational priority. In child safeguarding and the response to CSEA, we work with governments, law enforcement agencies and other stakeholders to establish national safeguarding structures, policies and practices, with access to legal expertise where legislative change is required.
Across investigations, we provide advice and training on the receipt, analysis and dissemination of intelligence, alongside case management tools and investigative training. We support victim-centred approaches that acquire only the evidence a complainant consents to share, preserving privacy and trust while producing court-defensible material. We also bring experience of cross-jurisdictional investigations and Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) requirements.
Our wider safeguarding work includes strategies to combat modern slavery and human trafficking, financial investigations to identify perpetrators and trace the proceeds of crime, and community engagement initiatives that educate, protect and provide anonymous reporting. This is delivered with an awareness of the particular challenges of safeguarding within close-knit communities.
All of our work is underpinned by training for frontline officers and supervisors, delivered by experts in recognising and responding to vulnerability, with periods of mentoring to embed new capability over time.
Effective safeguarding requires more than simply ensuring that well written policies exist. We recognise the importance of an approach to safeguarding which is rooted in a culture where 'doing the right thing' for the vulnerable and those in need is non-negotiable. Our specialists have led UK Forces safeguarding functions, managed complex multi-agency partnerships, and driven the kind of systemic change that turns policy into a practice that protects. They are also experienced in delivering the organisational and cultural change that effective safeguarding depends on, both in the UK and internationally. We bring both the strategic vision and the operational detail required to protect the most vulnerable in our communities.
From professional standards reform and major crime investigation to crisis communications, training design and organisational transformation - every service area is led by specialists with deep, hands-on experience in the discipline.
Creation of economic crime units; policy and practice review; asset tracing; investigations and training.
Misconduct regulations, performance frameworks, and independent oversight across complex jurisdictions.
Digital and cyber training, investigative consultancy, specialist products and operational support across UAV, RF and secure system technologies
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