What We Do

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 I am a qualified, registered, insured independent social worker with 18 years post-qualifying experience working in children’s safeguarding. 

I am highly experienced in court work including complex care proceedings before Magistrates & County Courts, Royal 

Courts of Justice & cases before the Court of Appeal. 

I have specialist expertise as an expert witness in Negligence / HRA claims.

• Parenting Assessments
• SGO / Connected Person Assessments
• Protective Carer Assessments
• Private Law / S.7 Assessments
• Social enquiry reports 
• IO & IP Stage 2 Statutory Complaints
• Secure Criteria Reviews
• ABE trained

• Neglect / failure to thrive
• Domestic violence
• Physical abuse, non-accidental injuries & suspicious child death 
• Intra & extrafamilial sexual abuse
• Child sexual exploitation
• Cases involving FII
• Roma / Traveller families

I head the Child Abuse Litigation Expert Witness Team at findafamilyexpert.com.

The team consists of highly trained and experienced expert social workers who provide reports in cases where a claim is being made against a Local Authority, in respect of potential negligence 

and/or breach of HRA claims.

We provide reports for both claimant and defendant solicitors.

Our team's experience spans 

from the 1980's to date, in both 

England & Wales.

Our reports include comprehensive chronologies and expert opinion.