Meet The Team

Andrea is a highly regarded leader with over two decades of leadership in safeguarding across a wide range of organisations. She has earned an admirable and respected reputation for creating safe and inclusive environments for children. Andrea has extensive experience in driving continuous improvement, ensuring that safeguarding is embedded into organisational culture and becomes part of an organisation’s DNA.

Having served as a LADO for over 10 years, Andrea has overseen the management of allegations and led both national and local initiatives designed to embed robust safeguarding practices across organisations, respectfully challenging those who are falling behind. She has previously worked for both a regulatory body and a national governing body, conducting safeguarding investigations and risk assessments. This unique combination of experience enables her to understand both regulatory compliance requirements and the importance of effective partnership working.

Alongside this expertise, Andrea has completed safeguarding reviews and scrutiny reports during some of the most challenging and emotive periods for organisations.

Andrea is deeply committed to ensuring there is a balance between doing things right and doing the right thing. She empowers organisations to strive for best practice rather than simply remaining compliant.

Her book Organisational Safeguarding will be published in 2026.

Some of Andrea’s professional successes include:

• Being part of the campaign to ensure that Position of Trust legislation captures those working within sports and religious settings.
• Being part of the task team that created the LADO Handbook with the Department for Education in 2023.
• Leading a project between the CPSU and nationwide LADOs to ensure that sporting bodies make appropriate safeguarding referrals.