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Your Partners in Safeguarding Excellence
International Safeguarding Solutions (I2S) brings together a team of seasoned experts with unparalleled experience in investigations, child protection, safeguarding, and preventative technology. Our specialists excel in addressing global online harms and offer tailored consultancy services designed to understand your safeguarding objectives. We provide comprehensive guidance and actionable advice to help you achieve your goals in protecting young and vulnerable individuals.
Meet the Team
Simon Bailey
Simon Bailey CBE, QPM, DL served for 35 years as a police officer, the last 8 years as the chief constable of Norfolk, and the national policing lead for child protection.
As chief constable, Simon led one of the highest performing forces in the country and achieved an outstanding assessment from Her Majesty’s Inspectorate for effectiveness.
As the national policing lead, Simon was responsible for designing and delivering what is regarded as the world leading response to pursuing online child sexual abuse offenders,. Simon gave evidence on behalf of the police to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse on multiple occasions.
After retiring from policing in 2021, Simon has continued to contribute to the global response to child sexual abuse, as the chair of the International Policing and Public Protection Research Institute (IPPPRI) at Anglia Ruskin University, as joint curator of the annual IPPPRI conference and creator of the Excellence in Global Online Harms Protection Awards, and as an internationally recognised speaker and media commentator. He was a member of the Department for Education National Safeguarding Practice Review Panel and a member of several national reviews.
The Bailey Review was commissioned by the Home Office and Simon made a number of recommendations to improve the Disclosure and Barring Service.
As a strategic leader, Simon has extensive experience designing and delivering transformational change programmes, leading cultural change projects and strategic planning. Invested in developing senior leaders, Simon has an outstanding record supporting leaders to achieve their full potential
Simon was awarded the Queens Police Medal in 2016, the Commander of the British Empire in 2022 and appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for Norfolk in 2021.
Simon has a master’s degree in criminology from Cambridge and an Honorary Science Doctorate from Bedfordshire University.
Lucy Sheehan
Lucy is a communications professional with years of experience in supporting private and public sector organisations with their strategic communications and brand management.
Starting her communications career in policing, she worked within her local police force in a number of communications disciplines ranging from internal communication to crisis management, strategic and change communications and campaign development and implementation. She led the strategic communications in support of a number of major constabulary programmes including the re-design of the local policing model and the creation of the force’s vision, mission and values.
In 2016, she set up a communications consultancy, providing public relations and communications support to clients within policing and a range of other sectors.
As the media and communications advisor for the Police Superintendents’ Association for more than 6 years, she works at a national level in policing, delivering communications for a wide range of stakeholders including members, national policing leads and government ministers. She leads communications for the association’s annual conference, which welcomes senior cabinet ministers to deliver key messages to the police workforce from the association’s stage. Responsibilities include writing the president’s speech to government and handling extensive media interest and attention.
Lucy has developed a specialism working in communications in support of the whole system response to online child sexual abuse. Supporting the International Policing and Public Protection Research Institute (IPPPRI) at Anglia Ruskin University, she has been responsible for raising the profile of the institute, working with global partners on key research topics and taking a leading role in the organisation and promotion of the annual conference, which is now widely regarded as the sector’s prime event, bringing together global leaders in this field.
She is one of the founding creators of the Excellence in Online Protection Global Awards.
Alongside this, she has supported clients to develop and formalise strategic business objectives, facilitating workshops and staff engagement opportunities to identify and communicate organisational vision, mission, values and priorities.