Claire Cairns MSc(Dist), BMus(H), PRINCE2 Practitioner
Director
A former Police Officer, Claire has been a Substance Misuse Commissioner and a Community Safety Partnership Manager. Claire has been supporting Liaison & Diversion services across the country since 2014 (as the Northern lead for the Offender Health Collaborative) and pioneered an innovative integrated Police Custody and L&D service which has now been established in Greater Manchester. Through our current work we are at the cutting edge of development in relation to L&D and can provide evidence of how more than 15 different L&D services operate across the country. Claire frequently attends regional and national events as a guest speaker and has been dubbed the “L&D Guru”.
Rich Tamlyn MA, BA(H), CQSW, PRINCE2 Practitioner
Director
Rich is a qualified social worker. He pioneered drug treatment services in prison; working in prisons for over a decade, he went on to work for HM Prison Service Drug Strategy Unit and the Home Office National Probation Directorate. Rich is based in Exeter and recently led the L&D needs assessments in the South West region.
Jen Morris BSc(H)
Data Analyst
Jen previously worked as a data analyst for a DAAT/Community Safety Partnership. Jen has been working with Claire & Rich for the last six years and is our ‘in house’ SystmOne expert. Jen leads on the management of all our data collection and analysis. Jen also collates and analyses service user feedback and carries out face-to-face service user consultation (where applicable) for many of our projects.
Dr Alicia Kidd PhD Social Justice, MA Human Rights and Political Science, BSocSc Social Anthropology
Proof Reader
Alicia provides project support and also adds academic rigour to our work providing Quality Assurance to ensure all our writing is evidence-based.
Sue Swidrak
Proof Reader
Director of Flamingo Marketing. Training Director at Modern Slavery Consultants.
Producing marketing, publicity, training and media materials, bespoke copywriting and proof-reading.
Dr Anthony Hewitt
Consultant
Consultancy in the areas of Health, Social Care and Criminal Justice, specialising in Substance Misuse, the Criminal Justice System and Mental Health. Monitoring, evaluation and reviews of strategies and services in the community and custody. Service development, modelling, remodelling, and implementation support on new contracts.
Nichola Cadet
Consultant
University lecturer and freelance social policy and criminal justice consultant offering research, evaluation, training and strategic development to the voluntary and community sector and the public sector. Employability, placement and TEF lead for criminology.
Specialties: Offender health including health needs assessments, procurement, Criminal Justice System particularly older people within the CJS Substance Misuse.