Sophie is a highly experienced independent advisor on child protection and safeguarding, providing expertise to central government and local authorities.

Sophie is known for her innovative approach to services to protect children and vulnerable adults, including providing a response to two of the most pressing challenges to society today; the repeat removals of children into care from the same women year after year, www.pause.org.uk and for children caught in the destructive cycle of crime www.shiftuk.org .

She is the creator of the Breaking Cycles Model for public service provision which shows how entrenched patterns of harm can be changed for good, the ingredients of which can be seen across both Pause and Shift.