About MeSafe
MeSafe is a consultancy, founded in 2018 by Dr Sarah Carlick, that supports innovative ways for children and young people to self-refer, and to share their information securely with multi-agency professionals - digitally and safely.
MeSafe’s services are underpinned by real-time digital communication, and harness both digital and traditional early help and support, to reduce the risk of harm to children and young people. By repositioning of the child's journey through social technical childhood spaces.
Supporting organisations to develop strategic approaches to create safeguarding digital pathways, that puts children and young people at the centre of service design and digital accessibility.
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About Sarah
Sarah began her professional career in social work, before working in probation, practicing in the public, private, and voluntary sectors in the UK and internationally in North America, and Australia.
Settling in the UK, she was the founder and director for 19 years of an award-winning training and consultancy, specialising in safeguarding children and adults-at-risk.
Sarah’s work promotes radical innovation in social care, social work, and across multi-agency child protective services; and her infectiously positive outlook and strategic approach has made her a respected disruptor in this space.
She remains a relentless advocate for the agency and equal status of children and young people as partners in the co-design of digital safeguarding initiatives.
Work With Sarah
As a Speaker or Judge
Sarah is an experienced and dynamic conference chair, keynote, panel member and moderator across multi-disciplinary professional and academic settings, and has worked across the globe, in-person and virtually.
Find out moreAs a Consultant
Sarah’s expertise as a consultant is wide-ranging in environments where children's social care meets technology. She specialises in advising on digital safeguarding strategies, and technical reporting pathways across organisational departments and in multi-agency settings.
Find out moreAs a Research Partner
Sarah's research focus is on co-producing new ways of working within child protection, and to challenge the current technical frameworks to ultimately improve outcomes for children and young people. This work has supported developments in UK and International child protection relating to managing risk and safeguarding.
Find out moreTo deliver Social Care Tech workshops
Sarah is a senior and seasoned facilitator, developing and delivering conferences, workshops, and development days tailored to the needs of stakeholders across the digital safeguarding and the social care sector.
Find out moreFor Safeguarding Supervision
Sarah has over two decades of experience working across multi-disciplinary sectors, all the while placing the lived experience and agency of children and adults at risk at the centre of safeguarding.
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