What partners say about Safe to Grow

  • Collaboration with Safe to Grow is an all-round positive and productive experience: Hannah Stott has substantive policy and practice expertise and is experienced in collaborative research in multiple fields relating to children and young people, their participation, rights and protection including social care, human trafficking, modern slavery, exploitation and other complex social issues and present-day challenges. She has the rare combination of being able to work directly with children and young people facing multiple challenges in their lives, having experience of setting up and managing a national support service for children and young people and working at a more senior level with policy and decision makers to advocate for children’s views and needs. My experience of working with Hannah has been seamless – she is knowledgeable, informed, organised, professional, efficient, insightful, strategic and detailed (which is a rare combination) as well as very approachable, friendly and with a ‘can do’ attitude. I cannot recommend Hannah or Safe to Grow enough.

    Dr Anna Skeels - SPARK - Cardiff University

  • I first worked with Hannah in 2014, initially via a Home Office funded study on guardianship for trafficked children in England and Wales. Over the years, we have collaborated on many projects together, including the evaluation of Guardianship in Scotland in 2022. Hannah’s generous intelligence makes her a pleasure to work with. Her expertise is formidable. She can distil key issues and create clear pictures of complex and entangled topics. Her energy, vivacity and an appreciative approach to collaboration are memorable aspects of her work and character. I think that she brings a wonderful intelligence and enthusiasm, providing not just hope, but ways forward for organisations, so they become safer and better for people who need them.

    Ravi K S Kohli - Professorial Fellow - Emeritus

  • I've worked with numerous consultants and product owners across both public and private sectors, I can confidently say Hannah stands out as exceptional. Her resilience, proactive approach, and genuine care for outcomes made her instrumental in delivering our child protection application. When Hannah inherited the product ownership of the application I'd built, both the solution and the development tooling were entirely new to her. What impressed me most was how quickly she mastered every aspect - not just learning the technology, but truly understanding the business context and user needs. She transformed what could have been a challenging transition into a success story, realigning delivery with business expectations and bringing the project back on schedule. Hannah combines technical acuity with emotional intelligence - crucial qualities when working on sensitive child protection systems. Her ability to balance competing priorities whilst maintaining team morale and stakeholder confidence is remarkable. Working with Hannah has been an absolute pleasure. She would be an invaluable asset to any organisation fortunate enough to have her.

    Tom Moore - Founder and CEO - Power365