Pippa is a lecturer within the SCPHN team at the University of Central Lancashire and is the Baby Friendly Initiative Lead for Health Visiting. She is a health visitor, nurse (adult and child), IBCLC (International Board Certified Lactation Consultant) and has recently become the infant feeding expert advisor for the Institute of Health Visiting.

She has recently finished a three year NIHR Allied Research Collaboration North West Coast doctoral studentship. Her research explored how women experienced the revised Baby Friendly Initiative standards over time and whether the socioeconomic context influenced the care women received.

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Greg is the Director of Public Health in Sheffield. He graduated from Nottingham University with a degree in biochemistry and physiology in 1993. He worked as a social researcher in a maternity unit; in health promotion and public health before joining the public health training scheme. Greg worked as a consultant in public health in Bradford in the PCT then Bradford Council. Since Feb 2016 he has worked for Sheffield City Council as the Director of Public Health. Greg was also appointed to the role of Vice President to the Association of Directors of Public Health (ADPH) in December 2021.

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Professor Monica Lakhanpaul is Professor of Integrated Community Child Health at UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health and an academic, clinician, science communicator and poet. She is also Consultant Paediatrician at Whittington NHS Trust, PPI lead for the Great Ormond Street Biomedical Research Centre and Global Strategic Academic Advisor (India).

Professor Lakhanpaul focuses on using collaborative, participatory research methods incorporating the arts at the intersections of health, education and the environment in order to optimise the health and wellbeing of children, adolescents and families affected by social and structural inequalities with the aim of influencing practice and policy.

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Louise first trained as a paediatric nurse over 20 years ago, specialising in child and adolescent mental health before qualifying as a Health Visitor in 2006. She has worked across London and Greater Manchester as a Health Visitor but moved into specialist nursing roles for safeguarding children and children in care in 2016. Louise is passionate about the role of Specialist Community Public Health Practitioners in safeguarding children, their parents and their community. Louise attended the ‘Million Pieces’ training by Lads Like Us earlier in the year and realised she had worked with Mike as his Health Visitor in 2015.

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Mike is the co founder of Lads like us. In early life he experienced significant ACE’s which resulted in numerous mental health disorders. He found himself in a life of crime and anti social behaviour. Mike uses his experiences of childhood trauma as his driving force to make changes for future generations. Mike is now an international speaker, trainer and Safeguarding consultant. Proving to himself and others recovery from trauma is possible. Lads Like Us are a Manchester based non-profit organisation whos journey started with a mission dedicated to informing the practice of professionals and organisations that had failed it’s founders as children and adults.

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Pippa Atkinson is a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) and is currently a National Institute of Health and Care Research Applied Research Collaboration Northwest Coast (NIHR ARC NWC) doctoral fellow. Pippa works as a Specialist Community Public Health Nursing Lecturer at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) one day a week and is the Baby Friendly Initiative Lead for Health Visiting.

Having joined the University in 2020 Pippa was instrumental in achieving the Baby Friendly Sustainability (Gold) Award for both the midwifery and SCPHN programme. She worked as a Specialist Health Visitor in Infant Nutrition for six years and led the Health Visiting Services and Children’s Centres in Nottingham City to become accredited as Baby Friendly. It was this experience which motivated Pippa to explore how the care provided to mothers by staff employed by organisations accredited as Baby Friendly, meets their emotional and practical needs for her doctoral studies. Pippa hopes to use the infant feeding narratives she has obtained through her doctoral research to develop an augmented reality training tool.

Maddie Rew, Training Programme Manager

BN (Hons), RCN, SCPHN (HV)

Responsible for:

• Management and coordination of training programmes provided or delivered by the iHV
• Contributing to governance and risk management of training programmes
• Recording and reporting training event information
• Supporting the review of iHV training resources and the introduction of new programmes

Contact Maddie – [email protected]

Amanda Holland, Professional Service Lead

Senior Fellow HEA, MSC SCPHN, PGCE, BN Hons, RHV, RN. PhD student exploring health visitor practice in Wales.

Responsible for:

• Supporting the development of iHV’s strategy and delivery of membership and professional services
• Lead on the development and quality improvement of iHV’s resources including the iHV Good Practice Points and Parent Tips
• Stakeholder engagement, collaboration and co-production initiatives
• Lead on iHV’s accreditation processes
• Leadership trainer
• Supporting the Head of Professional Services

Contact Amanda – [email protected]

Trish Stewart is the Associate Director of Safeguarding at Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust (CLCH), managing a team of safeguarding children and adult specialist practitioners, working across 11 London boroughs and Hertfordshire.

Trish qualified as a health visitor at Canterbury Christ Church University in 2002, gaining First Class Honours in her BSc degree and a Merit in practice. Trish worked as a health visitor in Kent before taking up a public health nursing team leader position in 2008. During this time Trish completed a Bachelor of Arts degree with the Open University (2004) studying a range of healthcare topics, undertook the extended nurse prescribing course (V300), specialising in the management of childhood eczema, and then completed a Master of Laws degree (LLM) at Cardiff University Law school, graduating in 2006, with distinction. Trish’s LLM dissertation considered the impact of public enquiries into child deaths on safeguarding practice.

In 2010 Trish became a named nurse for child protection and child death advising health visitors in case management, preparing court statements, and delivering safeguarding training. Trish also delivered restorative safeguarding supervision to support critical thinking and sound decision making, to protect children and to acknowledge and manage the emotional impact of this work on practitioners.

In 2014 Trish became a designated nurse for safeguarding children, gaining further experience in complex case management, partnership working, strategic planning and quality assurance in healthcare, including public health nursing and general practice. Trish’s interest in leadership in safeguarding led her to undertake Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Programme with the NHS Leadership Academy, gaining a Master’s in Healthcare Leadership (MSc) and a Senior Healthcare Leadership Award in 2017.

Trish started working for CLCH as Head of Safeguarding in March 2016. Her passion for safeguarding and supporting frontline practitioners is something she hopes to further champion with the iHV.