Sarah-Jo is a registered social worker and qualified practice educator with a practice background in supporting children and families and child protection. She came to social work after a career working in the field of domestic violence and abuse; first in an academic context, undertaking her PhD in the area of group interventions with perpetrators of domestic abuse and then as part of a team investigating the impact of housing and homelessness policy on women fleeing domestic violence. Sarah-Jo went on to work in the voluntary sector, developing domestic abuse interventions for male perpetrators of domestic abuse, before taking up a local authority appointment as Domestic Abuse Policy and Strategy Officer. Within this role she was responsible for supporting agencies to develop and improve their responses to domestic abuse and developed bespoke training for children and families’ social workers and allied practitioners.