Internationally recognised safeguarding, vulnerability and exploitation specialist with over 40 years' experience across safeguarding, law enforcement and UK border operations. She advises organisations on safeguarding, risk and assurance, drawing on a career leading national safeguarding capability and policy.
Safeguarding, Vulnerability and Exploitation Strategy, Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking, Child Protection and Harmful Practices, Risk, Assurance and Inspection, and International Safeguarding Capability Building.
Experience:
An internationally recognised safeguarding, vulnerability and exploitation specialist with over 40 years' experience across safeguarding, law enforcement and border operations. Following a public inquiry in 2000, they established and led safeguarding capability across UK ports, airports and juxtaposed controls, shaping national policy and frontline practice. They developed a national safeguarding model involving over 900 trained officers and led award-winning operations addressing modern slavery and exploitation. Their experience in inspection, assurance and scrutiny is extensive, working with inspectorates and oversight bodies to strengthen governance and stakeholder confidence. They have delivered safeguarding capability-building programmes internationally and supported safeguarding responses during the Afghanistan evacuation and the Ukraine crisis. Awarded an MBE for services to child safeguarding, their honours also include a World Class Policing Award and OSCE recognition.
This senior specialist has dedicated their career to protecting vulnerable people, preventing exploitation and strengthening safeguarding practice, and is recognised for translating complex safeguarding challenges into practical solutions that improve outcomes for those at risk.
Their experience spans policy development, operational delivery, organisational assurance, workforce development, partnership working and international capability building. As an experienced facilitator, trainer and international speaker, they regularly represent UK safeguarding practice in the media, at conferences, government forums and law enforcement events.
Safeguarding, in their view, should be practical, intelligence-led and embedded within everyday operational activity. They advocate early identification of vulnerability, effective information sharing and strong partnership working to prevent harm and disrupt exploitation.
That commitment extends to making safeguarding systems work in practice: giving frontline staff the confidence and capability to protect vulnerable people, while enabling law enforcement to pursue perpetrators effectively. Their approach is collaborative, evidence-based and outcomes-focused, with a strong emphasis on organisational resilience, sustainable capability and lasting improvements in safeguarding practice.
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