Driving up the benchmark of safeguarding best practice.

SaferNow exists to close the gaps between what organisations within children and adolescent safeguarding arenas can do, and what our communities require of us to be safe, happy, and to thrive.

Safeguarding legislation and practice struggles to keep up with the ever-changing landscape of harm impacting our communities. As such, SaferNow strives to provide the required support through nuanced practice development, resources, systems change expertise, and our Wraparound Service, to build on expertise within high-harm contexts, whether physical or online spaces.

We do this through training, consultancy, supervision, audits, resource development, and more. If you cannot find what you’re looking for on our site, do get in contact, as it may well be that we can support you outside of our promoted offers.

We can support your development towards increased levels of confidence, competence, and better outcomes for the communities we all serve.

Training - Consultancy - Supervision - Case Consultation - Communities of Practice

Resource Design - Service Design - Practice Support

Social Work - Youth and Communities - Police - Secure Estate - Justice - Health Settings

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“I think that the training has been world class Sean. Very engaging although harrowing and a balance of real life knowledge and experience together with academic and professional informative direction.”
- Residential Practitioner
“So many professionals, practitioners and general people in society need to sit and be part of this session. So many revelatory moments happened for me.”
—Delivery Manager, Violence Reduction Partnership
“Really impressed with depth and breadth of Sean's knowledge, which is incredible!”
- Senior Police Officer
“We commissioned SaferNow to produce bespoke risk assessment frameworks and guidance for staff - we cannot praise their work highly enough!”
— National Head of Services in Violence Intervention
“Sean was amazing at the delivery of the session. . You could tell he was knowledgeable and passionate about what he was delivering.”
- Education Professional
“100% of participants felt they developed learning that they could take forward into practice.”
— Safety Planning as a Tool to Safeguard Against Extra-Familial Harm. Delivered to EmpowerU, Exploitation and Missing Team, Birmingham Children’s Trust
“Very informative and relevant to our role. Lots of common sense, which we sometimes lose in crisis moments.”
— Team Manager, Children’s Services
“Eye-opening and fascinating”
— Military Health Care Professional, West Midlands
“Delivered excellently with really good information. Left plenty of room for reflection and questions. Brilliant training!”
— Social Worker, Birmingham Children’s Trust
“SaferNow took the time to understand the nuances of the work and produced exactly what we needed to an excellent standard.”
— National Head of Service, Youth Violence Intervention Services.
“Well-paced, informative and knowledgeable trainer. Would like to take part in more training .” — Education Staff Member, Solihull
“Useful for ALL practitioners delivering direct work with adolescents at risk”
— Family Support Worker
“Very much enjoyed learning about the language used which has made me feel more empowered.”
— Youth Worker, Cardiff
“Sean was very knowledge and personable, for my learning style and to ensure the individuals who did not want to speak in a large group could contribute, more table/group activities would have been useful.”
- Children’s Social Care Professional
“It was interactive and informative and Sean has a great way of delivering the course by breaking it down so that we can understand through experiences.”
— Housing Staff Member
“Was a great session that applied to people who are new to the field and to the more experienced.”
— Youth Worker, Sussex.
“Very knowledgable trainer, who had loads of examples that can be used with very young children all the way to older children.” - Early Years Practitioner, Telford.
“Really good! I loved the balance between theory and case studies.”
— Intervention Youth Practitioner.