EXPERIENCED, DEDICATED SAFEGUARDING SPECIALISTS
We are a highly experienced partnership of highly-trained safeguarding professionals based in London and Yorkshire. With a combined 46 years of safeguarding expertise, in a range of professional settings, we can provide exceptional training delivery informed by real-world knowledge to prepare your team for any safeguarding situations that could arise.
Our Team
Secure Foundations Training was founded by Rebecca Slater and Ruth Whittaker. Friends for nearly 30 years, we’ve combined our complementary skills to provide an intuitive, research-led, child-first training service that empowers staff and protects children more effectively.
Ruth Whittaker, CO-FOUNDER
“I’ve developed a deep understanding of child protection through my career, and my goal is to help schools and organisations create environments where every child feels safe, valued, and supported.”
About Ruth
Our Senior Training Consultant, Ruth leads the development and delivery of our training programs, ensuring that they meet the highest standards of quality and relevance. A teacher for 21 years, she brings a deep understanding of instructional design principles and utilises innovative teaching methods when designing learning experiences that cater effectively for our clients’ specific needs.
Ruth’s specialisms
In addition to her role at Secure Foundations, Ruth is actively involved in the local education community. She serves as a committee member of the Educational Professionals Association, where she contributes expertise and insights to help enhance the quality of education and training in the North Yorkshire area.
Through her knowledge and commitment to continuous improvement, Ruth plays a key role in helping our clients define a safeguarding process that reflects best practice throughout their organisation.
Rebecca Slater, Co-founder
About Rebecca
An independent social work assessor and expert witness with 25 years’ experience, Rebecca has been involved in over 300 cases as an instructed expert witness, preparing that same number of reports for Family Court Proceedings. A passionate and committed safeguarding professional, she has held various social work positions including social worker, advanced practitioner, team manager, child protection chair, deputy manager and senior assessor at a Local Authority Children’s Centre.
Rebecca’s specialisms
Rebecca brings a very particular skillset to Secure Foundations, including:
Direct work with children
Working with young parents
Parents with learning difficulties
Parents with mental health issues
Parents with substance misuse issues
Issues of domestic violence
Issues of sexual abuse and sexually harmful behavior.
Rebecca has also worked as a Specialist Local Authority trainer facilitating training for team managers, social workers and foster carers on a wide range of topics, including reflective practice, promoting resilience, and working with learning difficulties and domestic violence.
She regularly provides specialist training on child protection and domestic violence at Goldsmiths University.
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