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.
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.
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)
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Independent audit into practitioner responses to child sexual exploitation
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Read moreReview and development of policies and procedures
Read moreAssisting legal services
Read moreCommissioned by a large industrial company
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A range of safeguarding topics as keynote presentations, plenary sessions, or workshops including:
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]