THE CONTRIBUTORS
Karen Baker , LMSW, has served as the Director of the National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC) since its inception in 2000. She is also a Managing Partner of Raliance, a collaborative initiative comprised of three leading sexual violence prevention organisations in the United States. Ms Baker is the 2014 President of the National Coalition for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation. She served on the Board of Directors of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA) from 20122017 and co-chairs the ATSA Prevention Committee.
Jon Brown is a qualified social worker with a Masters in Social Policy from the LSE. During his career as a probation officer and social worker he has been responsible for setting up and managing a range of sexual abuse services, including therapeutic services for child victims, services for children and young people with sexually harmful behaviour and services for adult sex offenders.
Between 2003 and 2007 Jon was Chair of NOTA, the National Organisation for the Treatment of Abusers (www.nota.co.uk); he remains on the Board and is now chair of the Prevention Committee. He is an Expert Advisor to NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence; www.nice.org.uk) and a peer reviewer for the Economic and Social Research Council (www.esrc.ac.uk), the Journal of Sexual Aggression and the Australian Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse (www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au). With the Childrens Commissioner for England, he was co-chair for the Office for the Childrens Commissioners Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in the Family Environment. He was an expert member of the NICE guideline development committee on work with children and young people with harmful sexual behaviour. Jon is a Board member of the Loudoun Trust, which promotes good practice in the field of treating and preventing the perpetration of child sexual abuse, a member of the International Working Group on best practice in the management of online offending and was a Board member of eNACSO, the European NGO Alliance for Child Safety Online (www.enacso.eu). He has authored a number of book chapters and is co-author of Preventing Child Sexual Abuse: Towards a National Strategy for England (NSPCC 2015) and editor of Online Risk to Children: Impact, Protection and Prevention (Wiley 2017).
Prior to taking up his current role with the NSPCC, Jon was Operational Director of Childrens Services with Action for Children. From April 2010, he was Head of Strategy and Development with the NSPCC, helping to take forward the new organisational strategy in relation to sexual abuse, and since October 2015 he has been Head of Development and Impact. www.twitter.com/jonbrown46
Alice Cave is an Associate at London law firm Farrer and Co. Alices practice spans employment, education and child protection law. She has advised schools on a number of sensitive child protection cases, as well as on regulatory compliance. Alice was a member of the Farrer and Co. team which acted as solicitors to the Independent Review by Hugh Davies QC into the criminal conduct of teacher William Vahey, with a particular focus on Southbank International Schools selection, recruitment and vetting processes. Alice is a governor of a specialist school where she also holds the child protection brief.
Joanne Durkin is a qualified human resources professional with 12 years of experience working within a large acute NHS hospital. For many years Joanne worked predominantly within the recruitment function of the NHS. Joanne then moved to Organisational Development (OD) where she worked collaboratively with the NSPCC and Health Foundation to launch Value Based Interviewing and subsequent OD interventions with measurable success. Joanne also worked as Designated Safeguarding Officer providing training, advice, policy design and investigatory support on safeguarding issues within the NHS. Joanne earned her MA in Human Resource Management and is currently studying towards her PhD at the University of New England in Australia while continuing to work as an independent consultant specialising in safeguarding and organisational development interventions.
Adele Eastman is a Senior Associate at London law firm Farrer and Co. She is widely recognised as one of the leading lawyers in child protection, with expansive knowledge of social policy issues around this area, as well as childrens mental health and school exclusion. After qualifying and working for several years at Farrer and Co., Adele spent four years at the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) as a senior policy specialist. During this time, she gained extensive experience in the state education, child protection and mental health sectors. Adele researched and authored two CSJ policy reports: No Excuses: A Review of Educational Exclusion (2011), and Enough is Enough: A Report on Child Protection and Mental Health Services for Children and Young People (2014). Having re-joined Farrer and Co. in 2015, Adele specialises in child protection law.
Marcus Erooga is an independent safeguarding consultant and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Childhood, Youth and Family Research, University of Huddersfield. He spent the majority of his employed career in various roles at the NSPCC as a practitioner, team manager and operational Assistant Director as well as in service, practice and policy development relating to child sexual abuse and sexual offending. He is a past Editor-in-Chief and current Associate Editor of the Journal of Sexual Aggression and past Chair of NOTA (the National Organisation for the Treatment of Abusers). Since 2012 he has been an independent Safeguarding Consultant working with a range of organisations including the NSPCC, Save the Children International (SCI), Save the Children UK (SCUK), the Methodist Independent Schools Trust and the Cognita schools organisation. He is an experienced trainer and presenter, having worked across the UK as well as Canada, Italy, Norway, Singapore and the USA. Marcus is the author of some 50 publications on child abuse and sex offender-related issues including four edited books, the most recent being Creating Safer Organisations: Practical Steps to Prevent the Abuse of Children by Those Working with Them (2012, Wiley). Marcus recently served as an expert witness on grooming for the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, and was co-principal investigator (with Professor Keith Kaufman) for a literature review on risk profiles for organisational abuse for the Australian Royal Commission.
Jane Foster is a consultant at the Child Protection Unit of London law firm Farrer and Co. Until July 2016 she was the Tri-Borough (Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham and City of Westminster) Safe Organisations Manager and Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO). As Tri-Borough LADO and a coordinator of the Pan-London LADO network, Jane played a key role in keeping many of Londons children safe and is a well-known figure to many private, public and third sector organisations working with children, including state and independent schools. Jane has considerable experience in delivering training to professionals working with children, having designed and delivered safeguarding training for local safeguarding children boards in both England and Wales. She is an accredited safer recruitment trainer and was a panel member on the 2016 serious case review relating to sexual offending by teacher William Vahey at Southbank International School.
