Designated Nurse
Eleri qualified as an RGN (Adults) in 1994 and has worked in a variety of backgrounds ranging from ITU, Out of hours, primary care, commissioning and performance management and NHS Continuing Health Care /Complex care (including pooled fund arrangements). Before joining the National Safeguarding Team, Eleri was Head of Nursing for Safeguarding Adults, Domestic Abuse, Sexual Harm and Violence at Betsi Cadwalader University Health Board. In 2017 Eleri spent 6 months on a partnership secondment with North Wales Police reviewing their Governance functions for Healthcare Provision which included introduction of Forensic Nurse Examiners to Custody/ Reviewing Forensic Medical Examiners within SARC/ Role and functions of Occupational Health. Eleri holds an MSC in Public Health and Health Promotion.
National Safeguarding GP
Dr Nigel Farr graduated from St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical College in 1989. He has been a partner in General Practice in Gwent since 1995. From 2005 he worked as the GP Safeguarding Lead for Caerphilly Local Health Board and then for Aneurin Bevan Health Board until taking his post with the National Safeguarding Team (NHS Wales), in 2013. He has also worked as a Neighbourhood Care Network Lead GP for Aneurin Bevan University Health Board from 2011 to 2013. He has been a Trainer and Educational Supervisor in Primary Care since 2001.
Designated Doctor
Dr Alison Mott has been working as a Consultant Paediatrician since 1996 in Cardiff and Vale University Health Board. She became Designated Doctor in Public Health Wales in 2013. She has a broad practical experience in safeguarding children both at operational and strategic level. She is the Lead Paediatrician at Cardiff Sexual Assault Referral Centre and is the Project Clinical Lead (Children) on the South Wales Health Collaborative Sexual Assault Services Project Board. Her current interests are provision of an equitable sexual assault service for children and young people in Wales and the prevention of child sexual exploitation.
Service Lead / Designated Doctor
Dr Aideen Naughton has been working as a Consultant Paediatrician since qualifying from University College in 1985 and has worked in Ireland, Great Britain, the Sudan and Vietnam. She moved to Wales in 2000 to take up her current position of Service Lead for the National Safeguarding Team (NHS Wales) and Consultant Paediatrician in Nevill Hall Hospital, Abergavenny. Aideen is an honorary clinical research fellow with Cardiff University leading the reviews on Neglect with the Child Protection Review Group. She has a special interest in infant mental health and attachment.
Designated Nurse
Debbie Pachu qualified as an R.G.N from the University of Wales, Cardiff in 1991. She then moved to Jersey Channel Islands, where she worked at St Helier General Hospital before returning to Wales, to train and work as a Registered Midwife in Swansea. Debbie later qualified as a Registered Health Visitor, working for many years in Carmarthenshire and then in Swansea as a Specialist Health Visitor within the Sure Start Health Development Team until 2004, before specialising and gaining a Post Graduate qualification in Advanced Safeguarding Practice from Cardiff University. Debbie has worked specifically within child and adult safeguarding roles for the last 13 years, working across acute, community and primary care settings, and was the Named Nurse Safeguarding for Public Health Wales NHS Trust before becoming a Designated Nurse within the National Safeguarding Team in August 2016. She holds an MSc in Social Research Methods from Swansea University.
Designated Doctor
Dr Lorna Price graduated from Glasgow University Medical School in 1980. She has worked as a Community Paediatrician since 1988 first in Leicester, and then in Swansea from 1993 to the present day, currently in Hafan Y Mor Child Development Centre in Singleton Hospital. Lorna was the Named Doctor for Safeguarding Children in Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board from 2007 until 2012 when she took up her current post as Designated Doctor with the National Safeguarding Team (NHS Wales). Lorna has contributed to the work of Public Health Wales’ Child Death Review Programme since 2013.
Designated Nurse
Daphne Rose qualified as an RGN from the University Hospital of Wales in 1979 and worked on the Paediatric Unit there until 1983. After moving to Dorset she qualified as a Health Visitor in 1989 and has specialised in safeguarding work since 1994 holding the Named Nurses Role for Bournemouth and Poole until 1999 when she was appointed to Designated Nurse for Portsmouth and SE Hants. In 2005 she was appointed to the role of Nurse Consultant Safeguarding Children for the County of Dorset and the Boroughs of Bournemouth and Poole and joined the National Safeguarding Team (NHS Wales), as Designated Nurse Safeguarding Children in June 2009. She holds BA (Hons) in Protecting Children (University College Chichester) and MA in Child Care Law and Practice (Keele University).
Designated Doctor
Dr Carolyn Sampeys graduated from Southampton Medical School in 1982. She has worked as a Community Paediatrician in Cardiff since 1987 and has had a particular interest in Looked after Children (LAC) and Adoption since 1996. She is Named Doctor for LAC within Cardiff and Vale University Health Board and Medical Adviser in Adoption to Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan local authorities. Carolyn was appointed Designated Doctor for the National Safeguarding Team (NHS Wales), in 2013 and has a special remit for Looked after Children and Adoption across Wales. Carolyn is chair of the CoramBaaf UK Health Group and has involvement in UK and international research around adoption and substitute care.
Designated Nurse
Karen Toohey qualified as a Nurse in 1983 and has worked in a variety of settings including Elderly Care, Operating Dept. Nursing and District Nursing. She qualified as a Health Visitor in 1995 and following completion of a BSc (Hons) in Community Health in Canterbury Christ Church College she moved to a Specialist Child Protection team specialising in the use of solution focused therapy to work with children, young people and their families. Karen moved to Wales in 2000 and continued her academic studies undertaking an MSc in Health Informatics at Swansea University in 2010. Prior to joining the National Safeguarding Team (NHS Wales), she was the Head of Safeguarding Children (Named Nurse) for 12 years in West Wales.