Adele Gladman & Associates

Adele Gladman is a highly experienced independent safeguarding trainer and consultant who works in both the UK and overseas with those who have contact with both children and adults. Adele founded what is now Safeguarding Children Training and Consultancy in 2002 after two formative experiences. One was as a solicitor, representing young people going into the care of the local authority, and seeing how much of their harm was preventable. By 1999 over 95% of the young women on her caseload were suspected victims on child sexual exploitation and Adele was appalled at how services designed to protect them failed them instead. Adele went on to lead the Home Office Child Sexual Exploitation research and development pilot in Rotherham, South Yorkshire in 2002. Her harrowing experiences there resulted in her leaving the law completely to work with organisations and help them to understand children’s experiences and how best to address the risk associated with safeguarding. Adele is an NSPCC Associate and an approved supplier for several organisations including :- Durham University, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE); University of Cambridge, Merlin Entertainments, the Kings Active Foundation; Flywheel IT; a number of multi- academy trusts such as The Harpur Trust, The Harmony Trust, and Wellspring Academy Trust. She also works with ASPCo (The Association of Professional Staffing Companies) as one of their in-house trainers and auditors. She is an approved safeguarding and safer recruitment trainer for the NSPCC. Adele regularly contributes to news, TV, and radio programmes, raising awareness of safeguarding issues, as well as regular keynote conference presentations. She is the author of several articles and publications in professional journals and the co-author of Child Sexual Exploitation After Rotherham (2017); and the Online Guide to Internet Safety for Parents (2018). She has recently completed a chapter in the forthcoming publication, Policing Public Protection.

Adele is also the Safeguarding Trustee for Barnsley Sexual Abuse and Rape Crisis Service; Safeguarding Governors for Kleek Apprenticeships; as well as a carer for a young person placed in her care in 2021. Adele’s aim is simple – to help those working with the vulnerable in society to be the best that they can be – from their policies and processes, their workplace culture and practice, their staff knowledge and confidence, and their success in identifying, responding to and preventing harm to children and vulnerable adults.