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About Isabelle

Isabelle is a qualified Social Worker with over 20 years’ experience working with children and families across statutory, voluntary and independent settings. Since 2012 she has practised as an Independent Social Worker, completing complex fostering, adoption, private law and expert witness assessments, alongside providing supervision to qualified practitioners and delivering safeguarding consultancy.

She is an experienced Practice Educator (Stage 2) and has supported, trained and assessed Social Work students and apprentices across multiple universities, statutory, education and voluntary organisations across the Midlands. She has worked as a Visiting Lecturer for over 10 years supporting the delivery of the degree and masters Social Work programmes. She has extensive experience designing and delivering learning for adults, including lectures, seminars, skills‑based workshops, professional development sessions and bespoke training for organisations.

She brings a calm, organised and relational approach to adult learning, with a strong commitment to values‑led practice, reflective development and empowering practitioners to build confidence and capability in complex practice environments.

She is particularly interested in safeguarding, children’s mental health, care experienced young people and supporting neurodiverse children and adults to succeed in education settings.