Adele Gladman & Associates

Adele Gladman & Associates is a highly experienced, independent safeguarding consultancy, providing training and expertise across the UK and internationally to professionals working with both children and adults.

About Us

Our work is across the UK and international and includes local and central government; commercial industry and apprenticeship providers; charities; education (including universities); recruitment services; and health. We offer safeguarding children/adult training; safer recruitment and safe workplace practice events; and consultancy services such as independent evaluations, audits, investigations and reports.

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What We offer

School audits based on Ofsted inspection standards and key statutory outcomes

Audits of individual teams, whole workplaces, service-wide or county-wide practice; review of education responses to sexual misconduct

Child practice reviews and learning events, reflective practice events

Independent investigation of incidents including allegations against staff

High quality and evidence-based reports, with achievable and measurable recommendations

All levels of Safeguarding Children Training, Designated Safeguarding Lead events, and Safer Recruitment training

Enabling the participation of young people and their families in evaluation of services

Drafting policies (Safeguarding, Safer Recruitment, Allegations against Staff, Complaints, and a range of subject specific policies)

Conference speaking

What I can offer

A range of safeguarding topics as keynote presentations, plenary sessions, or workshops including:

  • Lessons learned from Rotherham
  • Best practice in responding to child sexual exploitation/abuse
  • Vulnerability and early intervention
  • Understanding Adverse Childhood Experiences and the impact of trauma
  • Best practice in safeguarding
  • The criminal justice system, vulnerable witnesses and the Barnahus model
  • Keeping children safe online
  • Addressing sexually harmful behaviour in education
  • Events for whole school staff and governors
  • Events for Universities
  • My presentations are engaging, powerful, and use a range of visual and audio resources for maximum impact on all members of the audience.

Events I have spoken at

  • Coming out of the Darkness – National CSE Conference
  • Derbyshire County Council – Safeguarding in Education Conference
  • Derbyshire County Council- Safeguarding Conference for Children’s Services
  • Aberlour Child Care Trust Staff Conference
  • NHS Scotland Inter-Regional Child Protection Conference
  • Yorkshire CSE Conference : The Road from Rotherham
  • Scottish Institute for Residential Child Care
  • Making Justice Work – Leeds Trinity University
  • Making Sense of Safeguarding Conference – Carlisle
  • Online Safety for Foster Carers – West Bromwich
  • Supporting Victims of CSE – Victim Support Conference, Leeds
  • Local Family Justice Board Conference – Cleveland
  • Regional Fostering Conference – Milton Keynes
  • Kym Allen Conference, Penrith – The Role of Schools in Preventing Sexual Harm to Children
  • Teesside University, Raising Aspirations Conference
  • Barnsley School Alliance: Understanding Adverse Childhood Experiences
  • IG Education, An Introduction to Understanding and Addressing Sexual Harassment and Violence in Schools

 

Testimonials

I absolutely love working with Adele! We first met 6 years ago when she audited my business’s safeguarding and safer recruitment standards. She has returned every year and supported us in maintaining the very highest standards in the recruitment industry. I find Adele’s approach to be consistently consultative, practical and collaborative with the highest standards […]

Katy Rees, Managing Director, Smile Education

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Adele has delivered both Advanced Safeguarding training and Designated Safeguarding Lead training for my teams several times over the last few years. The training has been pitched perfectly allowing us to feel confident in our roles. The contact before and after the training has also always been fantastic. I would thoroughly recommend Adele and will […]

Louise Harison, Senior Project Manager at North East Raising Aspiration Partnership, Newcastle University

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I have known Adele for many years on a personal level and have had the opportunity to work with her a couple of times in a business capacity. Adele has written and delivered training to schools we work with around lunchtime cover and the safeguarding element. More recently Adele delivered a workshop with our schools […]

Andrea Raven-Hill, Executive Regional Manager and Designated Safeguarding Lead, Reed Education

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Get in touch

Call: 07966 386584  ·  Email: adele@protectingchildrennow.co.uk

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