Adrian is a Trustee of the AoCPP and Chair of the Practice Learning SIG Chair.  Adrian qualified as a Registered General Nurse (1987), Cardiothoracic Nurse (1989) and Registered Health Visitor (1992) and has worked both in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland (LLR) and East Warwickshire. He has worked in the Safeguarding arena, initially as a Child Protection Nurse Specialist /Named Nurse for Child Protection and from 2004 -2020 as a  Consultant/Designated Nurse for Safeguarding Children (incorporating Adult Safeguarding into role from 2011). Adrian managed the Leicester City Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and hosted Safeguarding Team (working across LLR).  As part of  role  worked with local safeguarding and has chaired a number of inter-agency subgroups, contributed and authored Serious Case Reviews, Adult Learning Reviews and a Domestic Homicide Review  Co-Chaired the LLR Channel Panel for 6 years and worked with partners as a CCG prevent lead.

He is Honorary Principal Lecturer at De Montfort University (1999- 2015) School of Nursing and Midwifery.  In April 2020 took on a new role and is currently Safeguarding Professional Lead for NHS England.  The Midlands NHSE/I safeguarding team covers both East and West Midlands. Adrian is also a Parent Governor of a local school in Leicester.

Dr Sam Warner is a specialist in trauma-informed therapy, safeguarding and training. She is a consultant clinical psychologist and the chair of the Association of Child Protection Professionals. Sam holds an honorary senior lectureship at Salford University. She is a member of the advisory committee of the national working group against Spiritual and Ritual Abuse. Sam is also a national safeguarding panel member for Sport Resolutions, the independent dispute resolution service for sport. Sam has nearly forty years’ experience of working with children, young people and adults who have complex mental health and safeguarding needs. Sam has specialised throughout her career in working with the impact of abuse-trauma, focusing on sexual violence, child abuse and neglect, domestic abuse, exploitation, and in respect of all key related issues. These include: attachment difficulties and ‘personality disorders’, self-harm and suicide, dissociation and psychosis, spiritual and ritual abuse, fabricated and induced illness, developmental disorders and neurodiverse conditions including learning difficulties, ASD and ADHD. Sam has written books, papers and reports on these issues and advises at national and international levels. Sam provides complex trauma therapy with high risk clients and she works as an expert witness in the family courts (providing risk and needs assessments of both adults and children; victims and perpetrators). She delivers system-wide interventions with children who are looked after and provides bespoke clinical leadership to residential childcare services. Sam has extensive experience of working creatively with clients providing dream analysis; and art and drama-based therapeutic and training methods