Our Team.

 

ATA is a consultancy that works with leaders, practitioners, and communities to bring expertise and a laser focus on creating ambitious, but rigorous, sustainable change in child welfare and social care. We have a team with decades of collective experience in frontline practice, senior leadership, and whole-system change across the UK, Ireland, Canada and internationally. We are grounded in social work values and informed by research and implementation science. We have deep expertise in bringing about compassionate and disciplined approaches that put children’s safety and well-being at the centre. We focus on whole-system cultural change, rather than short-term projects. We know that sustainable change requires more than a new practice model or set of tools. It needs clarity of strategy and strong governance, along with a measured shift in organizational culture over time. We work with organizations to align vision, structures, processes, and day-to-day practice, so that safeguarding is not an event or a project, but an operating system for how work is done.

 

We draw on robust change management, organizational development, and our Safeguarding Together framework. We work with leaders and practitioners to design and test safeguarding practices that are behaviourally specific, network-centred, and focused on real impact for children and families. This includes creating psychological safety, strengthening accountability at all levels, and building feedback loops to allow organizations to learn, adapt, and continually refine their practice. ATA works with a network of experienced associates across Canada, the UK, Europe, and other regions, allowing us to respond flexibly to local context while maintaining a consistently high standard of rigour and quality. Together, we help organizations move beyond “doing training” to embed sustainable practices, strengthen professional confidence, and build resilient networks of support around children and families.