Joanna is the Home-Start UK Safeguarding Advisor for England.

Joanna is the independent safeguarding consultant for Ruskin Mill Educational Trust. An organisation that works with young people and vulnerable adults aged between 16 and 25. She advises them on safeguarding policies, procedures and practices.

She is a serious case review overview author, and is now trained and has worked as a lead reviewer using the SCIE model of reviewing serious cases..

Acting as an advisor to a national charity, she has also undertaken consultancy work for Ofsted, specifically around serious case reviews.

Joanna advises on issues of safeguarding children, social care, serious case reviews, child protection, child protection training, policies and procedures, complex case work and working with the media.

She has worked with the media since 2008 and currently acts as an advisor to media organisations around issues of safeguarding children and child protection and works as a consultant on television programmes. She is also a national commentator on these issues.

Joanna is a practitioner. She can help turn theory into practice.

She also facilitates events and organises development days for different organisations.