National multi-agency safeguarding and child protection working group
The group will help the government to implement an integrated multi-agency approach to safeguarding, child protection and family help.
The national multi-agency safeguarding and child protection working group provides expert advice on changes to the statutory guidance on working together to safeguard children.
Membership
Current members are:
- Dr Alison Steele, former Child Protection Lead, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (Chair)
- Annie Hudson, Chair of the Child Practice Safeguarding Review Panel
- Sue Williams, Director of Family Safeguarding, Hertfordshire County Council
- Richard Gill, CEO, The Arthur Terry Learning Partnership
- David Tucker, Delivery Lead - Crime and Criminal Justice, The College of Policing
- Sally Wilson, Adult Safeguarding Lead, The Royal College of Nursing
- Matthew Dodd, Head of Policy, National Children’s Bureau
- Julie Bunn, Chair for National Association for Virtual School Heads
- Toni Clark-Brown, Service Manager in Early Help, North Tyneside Council
- Sal Tariq, former Director of Children and Families, Leeds City Council
- Professor Andrew Rowland, Officer for Child Protection, The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
- Frazer Smith, Safeguarding Lead, United Learning
- Isabelle Trowler, Chief Social Worker for Children and Families
- Dez Holmes, Director, Research in Practice
- Cheryl de Freitas, Head of Operations (South), Youth Justice Board
- Helen Adams, Head of Safeguarding, Northamptonshire ICB
- Gabriel Amahwe, South Central Regional Probation Officer and Safeguarding Children and Adults Lead, Ministry of Justice (MoJ)
- Lorraine Parker, National Policing Facilitator
- Gareth Edwards, Director of the Vulnerability Knowledge and Practice Programme, Police
- Abigail Gill, Associate Head of Policy & Public Affairs, NSPCC
- Wendy Tomlinson, Head of Safeguarding, Youth Custody Service, MoJ
- Becky Canning, Joint Head of National MAPPA Team, MoJ
- Paul D’Inverno, Specialist Advisor, Ofsted
- Wendy Ghaffar, Specialist Advisor, Cross Remit Safeguarding, Ofsted
- Jeremy Gleaden, Policy Lead, Local Authority Children’s Services and Family Justice, Ofsted
- Lea Pickerill, Operational Team Manager – Children’s Inspection, Care Quality Commission
- Simon Alexander, Lead Inspector – National Child Protection Inspections, His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services
- Maria Jerram, Inspector, His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Probation
- Robert Tyrell, Principal Social Worker, Gloucestershire County Council Children’s
- Clare Poyner, Principal Social Worker, Portsmouth City Council
- Paul McGee, Head of the Essex Social Care Academy and Principal Child and Family Social Worker, Essex County Council