We are independent consultants who have been working together for over ten years to help agencies improve outcomes for children and families. We each have over 25 years' experience of work connected with children's services.
is a lawyer who, when in practice, specialised in public law relating to children and families, combined with research, training and development work. She was the legal adviser, and then Director, of Family Rights Group from 1982 to 1996.
has a background in teaching and the voluntary sector. She was a welfare rights adviser and then Assistant Director at Child Poverty Action Group and the first Director of Family Rights Group, from 1979 to 1992.
worked as a social worker in social services departments from 1972 to 1992. She was a child protection co-ordinator from 1992 to 2000 and developed projects on assessment, child sexual abuse and domestic violence.