About

Rosemary Luce - Director RL Safeguarding Service Ltd

Rosemary Luce (known as Rosie) is the Director of RL Safeguarding Service Ltd and is an ADR Group Accredited Mediator. She holds a Public Office post as a Fitness to Practise Panellist for the Nursing Midwifery Council and a voluntary post as the Senior Welfare Officer for a local football club which has approximately 750 members. Rosie was Called to the Degree of the Utter Bar on the 22nd of November 2010.

In addition to the Directors role, Rosie acts as an Independent Consultant for Outcomes UK and the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC). Rosie formerly held a Senior Trainer and Development Consultant (Health) post for the NSPCC. This role included:

Providing consultancy, training and specialist advice to various UK and international governmental and non-governmental organisations
Developing and publishing child protection learning resources
Supervising the training and/or consultancy outputs of others
Planning and managing responses to requests for services
Negotiating contracts with customers, associations, external and internal consultants
Influencing the development of safeguarding/child protection practices, services and policies
Participating in national working groups

Rosie provides consultant and specialist training in safeguarding and child protection for Outcomes UK.

Publications

Lead Author: Safeguarding Children & Young People in General Practice: A Toolkit and Safeguarding Children and Young People in General Practice: Training Modules. Publishers: The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) and NSPCC 2007.
The Children Act: Key Points and Implications for Nursing. Nursing Times May 2005.
Lead Author: Play Football, Be Safe!, A Toolkit for Arsenal Soccer Schools, Safeguarding Children from Harm.

Background

Rosie has worked in Health for 25 years and since 2000, has also included practice with in Community Health, Acute Paediatric Nursing, Mental Health and Nursing Vulnerable Adults in residential settings.

Former roles include; Child Protection Coordinator for Trent Strategic Health Authority taking the overall strategic lead for children at risk in particular child protection and Children Looked After; Named Nurse providing advice, training, supervision and consultancy on safeguarding children and aspects of public protection within a Mental Health (including adult learning disabilities) Trust. Parent Governor at a local comprehensive school & sports college and was the link governor for Every Child Matters and Chairs the Pupils and Personnel Committee. She held this post for six years.

Rosie has a keen interest in law and wishing to further develop her career Rosie started a self funded full Time First Degree in Law at Nottingham Trent University. In 2003 she obtained her LLB and graduated with Honours. Rosie then pursued a Masters in Law in Claims and Risk Management in Healthcare and achieved her LLM in 2006. During this period, Rosie has observed courts (criminal, civil, employment tribunals), attended a summer placement with CAPSTICKS solicitors (2002) that involved preparation of case files for employment tribunals, clinical negligence and fraud and, attended Human Rights Summer School in Strasbourg (2001).