Susan qualified as a family lawyer in 1989 and ran a successful family law practice specialising in child and adult safeguarding.
She left private practice in 2004 to set up and develop a consultancy focused on training in health and social care law and practice She is passionate about legal literacy, helping non lawyers interpret the legal rules and apply them into practice. She is passionate that staff not only do things right in accordance with the law, but to do the right thing.
In Adult Social Care Law, Susan specialises in developing and delivering training on the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and she designed and developed the qualification accredited by the Secretary of State, at Masters level 7, for Kingston University in Surrey for the Best Interest Assessors under the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards. She currently delivers this qualification at Teeside University.
More recently Susan conceptualised, developed and delivered both the Executive Leadership and Clinical Leadership in Safeguarding courses commissioned by NHS England. This work was recognized with an award at the HSJ Awards in 2020.
Susan is a dedicated, focused and passionate professional, with a firm value base and her feedback as a trainer is consistently outstanding.
