About
Current Activity
Independent Scrutineer Liverpool Safeguarding Children Partnership
January 2025 - present
Independent Consultancy Birmingham Safeguarding Children Partnership
December 2024 – March 2025
Membership of Regulatory & Professional Bodies
Social Work England, Registration Number: SW35833
Association of Child Protection Professionals (AoCPP)
The Association of Safeguarding Professionals (TASP)
British Association of Social Workers (BASW)
Experience & Achievements
Assistant Director, Safeguarding (Partnership) Birmingham Children’s Trust
September 2019 – October 2024
National Safeguarding Advisor Archbishops Council, Church of England
February 2015 – September 2019
HMI Social Care Ofsted
January 2014 – February 2015
Head of Safeguarding & Review Dudley Children’s Services
October 2001 – December 2013
Service Development & Quality Assurance Manager Telford & Wrekin Council
September 1999 – October 2001
Social Worker, Senior Practitioner and Deputy Team Manager Sandwell Social Services
October 1990 – September 1999
Education & Qualifications
University of Birmingham – November 2005
Postgraduate Certificate (with Distinction) in Advanced Management and Leadership of Local Governance
University of Warwick – October 1997
Post-Graduate Certificate in Child Protection
Buckinghamshire College – July 1990
1st Class BSC (Hons) in Sociology & Applied Social Studies and Certificate of Qualification in Social Work (CQSW)
Peter Symonds College, Winchester – July 1986
A Levels: History (B); Sociology (C)
Graham Tilby
Graham is an accomplished safeguarding professional and leader with over 34 years of experience in safeguarding and significant experience of working within safeguarding partnership arrangements including:
Proven track record of providing strategic and collaborative leadership within children’s social care and safeguarding partnerships focusing on quality assurance, scrutiny and improvement
Leading, authoring and quality assuring reports for Rapid Reviews, Local Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews and Domestic Homicide Reviews
Responsible for driving improvements in multi-agency safeguarding practice including moving the local authority to Good Ofsted rating and establishing a national safeguarding framework within the Church of England
