Independent Safeguarding Consultant
Claire Ray has spent over 20 years specialising in education safeguarding, managing Kent County Council’s Education Safeguarding Team for the past 8 years. She has also held various statutory child protection roles, including working as a LADO. Claire qualified as a social worker in 1999 before completing an MSc and Advanced Award in Social Work in 2005.
Independent Safeguarding Consultant
Robin is a qualified social worker working in a variety of roles in his 25 year career including front line social work with children as a practitioner and as a senior manager. He has also worked as the Local Authority Designated Officer and for the last 6 years worked for Kent County Council spearheading their own Education Safeguarding team before he left in late 2024 to set up his own venture.
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Learn MoreThe purpose of the safeguarding review from ESS is to assist the safeguarding team in all settings (DSL, Headteacher and Safeguarding Governor) to ensure that they support effective safeguarding practice. It has been updated to reflect the needs of settings in 2025.
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Learn MoreOccasionally settings need to source an independent person to carry out an investigation. ESS have extensive experience of doing such pieces of work for early years settings, schools and colleges.
Learn MoreESS offer several different types of training for settings. Including basic safeguarding awareness for settings and Designated Safeguarding lead training. This can be delivered face to face or via Microsoft Teams. Here at ESS we feel this offer is superior to e-learning as it enables interaction with others and the facilitator. We can provide this for less than KCC and other local authorities.
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