About Golden Thread Safeguarding Consultancy
Our passion for safeguarding
We are dedicated to supporting organisations in strengthening safeguarding practice across children, adults, and families. Our goal is to develop confident practitioners and create meaningful, lasting change within your systems.
About Us
Strengthening Safeguarding. Supporting People. Creating Safer Systems.
Golden Thread Safeguarding Consultancy was founded to help organisations build safer cultures, stronger safeguarding systems and more confident practitioners by providing expert safeguarding consultancy, training, supervision and statutory review support for organisations working with children, adults and families.
Our approach is grounded in the belief that effective safeguarding is about more than compliance. It is about creating environments where people feel safe, heard and supported, while ensuring organisations meet their safeguarding responsibilities and continuously improve practice. We combine strategic expertise with practical solutions, helping organisations translate learning into meaningful and sustainable change.
We are guided by a clear set of values: safeguarding expertise, compassionate practice, psychological safety, continuous learning and a Think Family approach that recognises the interconnected experiences of children, adults and wider family networks. These principles underpin everything we do, whether we are delivering training, facilitating supervision, reviewing practice or supporting organisational development.
Our aim is simple: to work alongside organisations as a trusted partner, helping them create safer services and achieve better outcomes for the people they support.
Meet the Founder
Louise Field MSc (Pending), BSc (Hons) SCPHN (HV), DipHE (RN Child)
Louise is an experienced safeguarding professional with more than 20 years of experience working across health, social care and multi-agency safeguarding systems. Her career spans frontline clinical practice as a hospital and community nurse and Health Visitor, specialist safeguarding roles in acute, community and primary healthcare settings, and senior strategic leadership, providing her with a unique perspective on safeguarding across whole systems.
Having worked at system leadership level within the NHS, Louise has extensive expertise in both children's and adult safeguarding. Her experience includes safeguarding leadership, multi-agency partnership working, statutory reviews, safeguarding audits, policy development, quality assurance, workforce development and practitioner supervision.
Throughout her career, Louise has been recognised for her approachable style, compassionate leadership and ability to build strong professional relationships. She is passionate about developing confident practitioners, creating psychologically safe spaces for reflection and helping organisations translate learning into practical improvements that make a real difference to children, adults and families.
At the heart of Louise's work is a commitment to providing expert, practical and values-led safeguarding support that strengthens practice, supports professionals and promotes safer outcomes for all.
Louise is a Safeguarding Trustee for a national children's charity, providing strategic safeguarding leadership and independent oversight, ensuring the charity meets its responsibilities to children, young people and vulnerable adults. Louise supports a strong safeguarding culture through governance, policy development, training, supervision, quality assurance and professional challenge, helping to ensure services remain safe, effective and aligned with current legislation and best practice.
Louise is studying for her MSc in Child Protection and Safeguarding Adults and is training to become a statutory review author.
"The expertise and genuine care provided by Golden Thread Safeguarding Consultancy have been invaluable to our organisation. Their guidance has significantly enhanced our safeguarding practices."
A satisfied client