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Does this sound like you?
You have spent years protecting children, families and adults at risk. You know the system inside out. You have attended the strategy meetings, written the reports and carried the cases home with you.
And somewhere along the way, you started questioning whether there might be another way to use everything you know.
Maybe you want to address your work life balance. Or have you watched the same lessons come up again and again and want to be part of changing that? Possibly you just know it is time for a pivot, but you can not yet see what it looks like.
I have been there. So have hundreds of the reviewers I have trained.
What I will cover...
- My story, honestly told. From head of law to my kitchen table, breastfeeding a newborn while on the phone to Companies House.
- A story that changed me. One of the people from my new book, and what her story taught me about why this work matters.
- What transfers. The skills you already have that independent review work needs most.
- The real path. What the first steps look like, the void space in between, and how to stay in the game.
- Your questions. Time for you to ask about anything on your mind.
Who this is for?
This webinar is for you if you are a social worker, health professional, police officer or public or third sector professional with safeguarding experience, and you are curious about independent review work, consultancy, or simply what else might be possible.
You do not need a legal background. You do not need a business plan. You just need to be curious.
About your host Donna...
I’m Donna, a former solicitor and head of law who left local government to become an independent reviewer. Since 2009 I have led or overseen more than 250 child safeguarding practice reviews, safeguarding adults reviews and domestic abuse related death reviews.
I created the SILP methodology, which puts learning before blame, and I have trained hundreds of social work, health and police professionals to become independent reviewers through SILP School.
My book, The Stories That Changed Me, will be published on 23 November 2026.
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