Suzanne is an experienced strategic leader who has worked across the statutory and charity sector over the last 20 years. A proud Youth Worker by profession, she has experience in practice and leadership of highly successful specialist services for children, young people and their families.

Prior to joining the CSA Centre, Suzanne led Barnardo’s national work on placed based systems change to support improvements in the response to children who have been sexually abused or criminally exploited.

Much of her career has been spent in the leadership of Youth Justice Services across the North West, holding many additional responsibilities including Greater Manchester Resettlement Consortium Coordinator, Local Safeguarding Children Partnership Board member and member of the Youth Justice Board Workforce Development Council. She is experienced in working collaboratively to influence wide-scale cultural change by focussing on co-production with children, families, and professionals and bringing research closer to practice.