Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel member
Jenny Coles
Biography
Jenny was appointed to the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel in December 2021.
Jenny is a qualified social worker and has been a senior manager in local authority children’s services since 1997. She has worked extensively in children’s safeguarding, looked after children and quality assurance, and has also managed integrated youth and youth justice services, education and special educational needs and disability services.
Jenny became Director of Children’s Services in Hertfordshire County Council in 2010 and retired in August 2021. She was also President of the Association of Directors of Children’s Services from April 2020 to April 2021.