Principle Social Worker
Karen has worked with children and families in statutory and voluntary agencies for over 30 years, with a primary focus on adoption, fostering and kinship care. Karen was awarded a master’s degree in Social Work from Warwick University in 2010, returning to the local authority, where she gained a great deal of experience in her field. Her experience includes court work, child protection work, life story work and training adopters and foster parents.
She is a practice educator and has sat on adoption and fostering panels, and worked as a senior practitioner before deciding to work independently. She began working for Adopters for Adoption in 2018 as an independent social worker, and enjoyed her time so much, that she decided to join the AFA team as a principle social worker.
Karen, who lives in the West Midlands, has two adult children. When not at work, or in her sewing room, she can be found exploring the countryside in her newly restored motorhome, along with her partner Pete and their manic Border Collie Taz.
