Embedded Advisor
Expert Child Safety Guidance, Fully Dedicated to and Embedded in Your Organisation
Our Embedded Advisor service plays a crucial role in helping organisations strengthen their child safeguarding and protection frameworks. Going beyond standalone consultancy, an Embedded Advisor provides direct, ongoing, and tailored support, ensuring child safety best practices are fully embedded across the organisation’s strategy, operations, people, environments, and culture. Importantly, this guidance helps organisations achieve their child safety milestones as much as possible, in a self-sustainable manner, with Advisor support gradually reducing as progress is made.
Contact us today to learn how our Embedded Advisor service can help you embed best practices and achieve sustainable child safety milestones, or read on to learn more about the key benefits of choosing Embedded Advisor support.
This service is especially beneficial for organisations:
Why Choose an Embedded Advisor?
✅ Dedicated Expert Guidance – A safeguarding specialist consistently assigned to provide tailored support on a weekly or monthly basis, as agreed with your organisation.
✅ Tailored, Expert-Led Support: Focused on the qualitative and effective integration of child safety best practices, embedding a robust safeguarding culture that fosters continuous improvements.
✅ Building Staff and Stakeholders’ Understanding and Confidence: Equipping staff and stakeholders with practical knowledge on safeguarding and child protection through in-person and online briefings, training, and guidance, supporting effective collaboration in navigating organisational changes related to child safety.
✅ Embedding Collaborative Working: Strengthening internal and, where applicable, external capabilities by fostering shared responsibility for child safety across all levels.
✅ Developing Child Safety Self-Sustainability: Reducing reliance on external services and minimising long-term financial costs by building internal safeguarding expertise and, as much as possible, fostering self-sustaining safeguarding structures.
An Embedded Advisor works both on-site and remotely, as agreed with the customer, ensuring that child safety improvements are tailored, practical, achievable, and sustainable throughout the project period, in alignment with the customer’s preferences and specific organisational needs.
Led by Kim Dickinson, Founder of Holistic Safeguarding
Embedded Advisor support is led by Kim Dickinson, founder of Holistic Safeguarding and a leading expert in organisational safeguarding. In transferring her UK NSPCC expertise to Aotearoa, under Kim’s guidance and support, both of New Zealand’s child-safe accredited organisations (Y North (formerly YMCA Auckland) and Dilworth School) successfully achieved and renewed their safeguarding accreditation.
Kim continues to assist organisations in embedding child safety best practices and becoming Child Safe Organisations. She also created Holistic Safeguarding’s Child Safety Ambassadors Programme, a best practice framework that helps organisations become child safe organisations by embedding the 10 Child Safe Organisation Principles in a tailored manner. This programme incorporates critical child safety influencers such as:
• Child Rights
• Royal Commission Recommendations
• Child-Centred Practice
• Victim-Survivor Insights and Influences
• Values-Based Approaches
Embedded Advisor Support for the Halberg Foundation
The Halberg Foundation is a deeply valued member of our whānau, partnering with Holistic Safeguarding since day one. They exemplify continuous improvement in child safety, ensuring their essential safeguards evolve. As a small but mighty charity constantly navigating competing demands, our Embedded Advisor service provides their dedicated staff with committed specialist support to assist them with advancing new child safety initiatives and strengthening any existing measures.
“The support that Holistic Safeguarding has given us since we started working with them has been amazing! It has helped us to understand and feel confident in our management of safeguarding from Governance through to delivery. We are very grateful for all the work that Kim does to support our purpose."
Anne-Maree Broom,
Head of Operations, The Halberg Foundation
