The Safeguarding Children Service consist of four Safeguarding Children Teams. Our practitioners are all qualified nurses and have backgrounds such as health visiting, school nursing, youth offending health and as such can provide advice and expertise on wide ranging safeguarding concerns.

We provide support via our Trust Wide Safeguarding Duty Hub where you can access instant safeguarding advice, support and case consultation.

The safeguarding children teams also offer Safeguarding Supervision, if you would like to arrange supervision please contact the team by emailing safeguarding@merseycare.nhs.uk and we can make arrangements with you.

We also offer training, this is in form of the modular training packages that we update and change each year – please see the safeguarding training pages for more information. We can also support your teams with specific training needs you identify within your service.

The Safeguarding Children Service consists of four Safeguarding Children Teams

Safeguarding Children Knowsley and St Helens Community Health Services

Clare Handley - Named Nurse Safeguarding Children

Michelle Angel – Webb - Safeguarding Children Specialist Nurse

Amber Blackmore - Safeguarding Children Specialist Nurse

Catherine Hadland - Safeguarding Children Specialist Nurse

Carole Hanlon - Safeguarding Admin

Sefton Community Health Services

Barry Greene – Named Nurse Safeguarding Children

Sarah Earley - Safeguarding Children Specialist Nurse

Laura Osbaldeston - Safeguarding Children Specialist Nurse

Kerry Woolvine - Safeguarding Children Specialist Nurse

Jo Ann Tynan - Safeguarding Admin

Mandy Howe – MASH - Safeguarding Children Specialist Nurse

Debs Dobson - MASH Safeguarding Children Specialist Nuse 

Anne Bowan - MASH Admin

Liverpool Community Health Services

Laura Davies – Named Nurse Safeguarding Children

Lisa Beckett Quinn - Safeguarding Children Specialist Nurse

Gill Boylan - Safeguarding Children Specialist Nurse

Amanda Crayden - Safeguarding Children Specialist Nurse

Lorraine Bulger - Safeguarding Children Specialist Nurse

Kate Lindo - Safeguarding Children Specialist Nurse

Nicky Curtis - Safeguarding Children Specialist Nurse

Helen Mollard-Davies - Safeguarding Children Specialist Nurse

Julie O’Brien - Safeguarding Children Specialist Nurse

Ann Quinn - Safeguarding Children Specialist Nurse

Fatima Sharif Ali - Safeguarding Admin

Liverpool MASH Team

Michelle McElhinney - MASH Health

Stacie Riddell  - MASH Health

Michaela Bilsborrow - MASH Health

Mental Health Care Division

Lauren Whyte – Named Nurse Safeguarding Children

Lindsey Devine - Safeguarding Children Specialist Nurse

Karen Dobson – Safeguarding Children Specialist Nurse

Elizabeth Graves – Safeguarding Children Specialist Nurse

Michelle Kelly and Midhu Mohan - Safeguarding Admin