Our Trustees

CHAIR 

Alison Cutler

Alison is Partnership Development Manager for the Surrey Safeguarding Children Partnership. She is one of the longest serving Partnership Business Managers in the country, having worked in leadership roles across four different Safeguarding Boards since 2010, and supported them on their improvement journeys to Good or Outstanding. Alison's proven track record in delivering improvement and change through collaboration means she understands the challenges facing partnerships and how TASP may best support them. Having been an active member of TASP since its inception, Alison has been a long standing TASP contributor, particpating as an Advisory Group Member, Business Manager Network facilitator and Trustee. Alison was appointed Chair by the Trustee Board on 24th January 2024.

TRUSTEE

Laurelle Brown

Laurelle is a JNC-qualified Youth and Community Worker with over 20 years of experience in services for children. She has worked in a range of frontline, research, strategy and leadership roles across the statutory, voluntary and community sectors. A Founding Director, Laurelle’s consultancy works on tackling complex equity, diversity and inclusion change across systems for children. She is also a Co-Founder of KIJIJI, a community for Black safeguarding professionals, an Independent Scrutineer for the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, and a primary school Governor.

TRUSTEE

David Goosey

David is currently chair of the Berkshire West Safeguarding Children Partnership, the Pan Islands Safeguarding Boards and the Portsmouth Safeguarding Adults Board and Independent Scrutineer for the Safeguarding Children Partnerships in Northamptonshire and Lewisham. He is a registered social worker and was a university principal lecturer for 27 years. He is co author of Law for Social Workers and Safeguarding Across the Life Span. He also works for the NHS on GP Educational Supervision.

 

TRUSTEE

Sue Kirkley

Sue Kirkley is a registered Social Worker with Social Work England and has worked in organisations providing voluntary and statutory services to children, young people, families, parents, and adults for over 30 years. Her experience derives from the various roles she has undertaken during her career as a youth worker, children’s social worker and team manager, training and development officer and as the strategic business manager for a Safeguarding Children Board/Partnership.

The diversity of the roles Sue has held, provides a range of skills and expertise for TASP to draw on and Sue is excited to push up her sleeves and get stuck in.

TRUSTEE

Ann Lorek

Ann Lorek was a consultant community paediatrician in hospital then community, from 1999 in Lambeth where work included  designated doctor for looked after children, and for safeguarding, and more recently in Greenwich where she is designated doctor for safeguarding children and young people.  She has worked at King's College London since 2007 where she leads the Child Health and Development module as part of the International Child Rights and Development MA. Research interests have included refugee child detention, safeguarding in Covid,  and currently she is a member of the research team looking at how to evaluate child safeguarding partnerships (the MACS Evaluation Project).

TREASURER 

Chris Miller

Chris is the chair of Harrow Safeguarding Partnership. He was police officer for 32 years before retiring as an Assistant Chief Constable in Hertfordshire in 2011. Since leaving the police he has worked in the fields of domestic violence, information technology, and offender rehabilitation. He is the treasurer for the association and leads on the associations links with the Home Office and the Ministry of Justice.

TRUSTEE

Daksha Mistry


Daksha is currently the Manager for Kingston and Richmond Safeguarding Children Partnership. She is a skilled children’s safeguarding professional, trainer, and strategic manager with over 30 years’ experience working within children’s social care.  During the course of her career, she has worked both at a national level as a director at Reconstruct (a safeguarding training company) and as a skilled trainer and facilitator, working with partner agencies to develop multi agency relationships and safeguarding practice, policy & procedures.  

TRUSTEE

Nasima Patel

Nasima is a Social Worker who has worked  in both the voluntary and statutory sector at Director level undertaking policy work,  developing and leading services for children and families over many years. Nasima led on the early development of services for sexually exploited and trafficked young people nationally for which she received a lifetime achievement award and then on a major change programme. Nasima has been working in Newham  for over two years on various programmes mainly related to early help, preventing exploitation, supporting the Covid response  and service improvement.
 
Nasima is keen to see a shift in children’s work from a reactive  response to families to a practice model that Is steeped in relationship based partnerships and one that is able to integrate the lived experience of families and communities especially  with regard to poverty, poor housing and discrimination at its centre.  

TRUSTEE

Jenny Pearce OBE

Jenny Pearce is an Independent Scrutineer with the London Borough of Havering. She was scrutineer and chair of the joint LSCP: London boroughs of Hammersmith and Fulham, Westminster and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea 2017 to 2020. Her academic work as Professor of Young People and Public Policy at Bedfordshire University focuses on child exploitation and she is visiting professor with Goldsmiths College, London.

 

TRUSTEE

Amy Weir

Amy has more than 40 years’ experience of working in safeguarding within a variety of different agencies including Local Authorities, the NHS and the voluntary sector in various roles. She is a Registered Social Worker. She has been involved in the development of multi-agency strategic and operational practice both within central government but also at a local and regional level as an advisor but also as an inspector. Amy has completed many safeguarding reviews and been responsible for commissioning reviews.  She has chaired several LSCBs and more recently been an independent advisor to a Local Safeguarding Partnership in the north-west. 

Amy has been appointed to serve as a Reviewer by the National Safeguarding Practice Review Panel. She is seeking to undertake project work related to the National Panel’s work programme. In addition, Amy is working in a variety of others safeguarding roles including work with one of the largest independent fostering agencies in the UK as an advisor and independent reviewer.