Ann Carter

• Experienced leader of children's services in the UK in both statutory and charity sectors, and lead evaluator for quality assurance of humanitarian protection responses across the Middle East and North Africa. • Experienced senior manager in specialist and community-based child protection and children and family services in both governmental and non-governmental settings. • Leader of organisational change, service design and service improvement. • Trainer in Safeguarding to a wide range of different staff groups including whole school staff groups. • Master's Degree in International Development Management (September 2017) • Social work qualified and registered with Social Work England. • Prince 2 Practitioner project management qualification. • Areas of particular interest include child protection in humanitarian settings, refugees, and children in forced migration flows. • Research conducted on the protection for Syrian refugee children in Lebanon with a focus on exploring the interaction and effectiveness of the humanitarian response and host country child protection systems.