David has extensive experience specialising in work with children and young people displaying harmful sexual behaviour and / or who have experienced sexual abuse or exploitation.  David has been involved in a number of campaigns nationally and internationally raising awareness of sibling sexual abuse amongst other key issues within the field of child protection and justice. His experience includes providing assessments and interventions for vulnerable children, adolescents, and adults within the field of sexual harm and violence. He has also worked in custodial and secure settings. David provides training on a range of themes on sexual violence and has facilitated multidisciplinary training internationally. He currently sits on the NOTA (National Organisation for the Treatment of Abuse) Scotland Executive Committee, supporting professionals responding to sexual harm. He is the lead author of Restorative Justice & Sexual Harm: The Voices of Those Who Have Harmed) and is currently involved in a research project in collaboration with the University of Birmingham, exploring prevention strategies within incel subcultures. David is the lead author of ‘Harmful sexual behaviour & autism: supporting children and young people’ (Russell et al, 2026).

Phil Morris MSc LLB (Hons) PGCE is a consultant, trainer and former police officer, specialising in communication techniques and interviewing.

Phil retired from Greater Manchester Police in January 2016 after 30 years of service. Since 2002 he has delivered training in the fields of vulnerable witness interviewing, offender interviewing, sexual offence law and initial police action following the report of a sexual offence.
As a serving officer Phil trained both uniform and detective officers, military police investigators and social workers in accordance with the Home Office Guidance document, Achieving Best Evidence in Criminal Proceedings (ABE). Since leaving the police service he has delivered training and presentations throughout the UK and overseas.
Phil has a keen interest in the interviewing of Autistic people. He completed an MSc in Child Forensic Studies at the University of Leeds in 2010. This included a final dissertation focused on the quality of police training in relation to the interviewing of Autistic people.
In recent years Phil has enjoyed a lecturing role at the University of Central Lancashire and continues to teach police officers and social workers around the UK on best practice in interviewing vulnerable people.

Phil is a National Autistic Society (NAS) accredited trainer and has been a member of the NAS National Forum and the North West Criminal Justice Forum on Autism.

Clare Allely is a Professor of Forensic Psychology at the University of Salford in England and is an affiliate member of the Gillberg Neuropsychiatry Centre at Gothenburg University, Sweden. Clare is an Honorary Research Fellow in the College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences affiliated to the Institute of Health and Wellbeing at the University of Glasgow. She is also an Associate of The Children's and Young People's Centre for Justice (CYCJ) at the University of Strathclyde. Clare is a Chartered Member of British Psychological Society (CPsychol since 2013) and Associate Fellow of British Psychological Society (AFBPsS since 2013).

Clare acts as an expert witness in criminal cases involving defendants with autism spectrum disorder and contributes to the evidence base used in the courts on psychology and legal issues through her published work. She is author of the book “The Psychology of Extreme Violence: A Case Study Approach to Serial Homicide, Mass Shooting, School Shooting and Lone-actor Terrorism” published by Routledge in 2020 and author of the book “Autism Spectrum Disorder in the Criminal Justice System: A Guide to Understanding Suspects, Defendants and Offenders with Autism” published by Routledge in 2022.