ELLIOTT DAY
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Why I created Potential & Protection
Potential & Protection was created to provide practical specialist capacity around some of the most complex safeguarding challenges facing children, young people and the professionals supporting them.
The aim is not simply to identify risk. It is to understand the child, understand the context, challenge assumptions where necessary and translate assessment into purposeful intervention, safeguarding and disruption.
FOUNDER & LEAD PRACTITIONER
Specialist Children’s Social Care, Exploitation & Complex Adolescent Safeguarding
Elliott Day is a Social Worker and the Founder & Lead Practitioner of Potential & Protection Consultancy Ltd. His practice brings together statutory children's social care, complex adolescent safeguarding, exploitation, substance misuse and youth offending experience.
Experience at a glance
11+ years professional experience
8 years statutory children's social care
Professional experience began in substance misuse in 2015
From frontline experience to specialist consultancy
2015 — Professional experience began in substance misuse and specialist support.
2018 — Moved into statutory children's social care.
2022— Move into senior social work in a frontline role
Subsequent practice — Developed extensive experience across complex children's safeguarding, exploitation, contextual safeguarding, youth justice and multi-agency work.
Today — Founder & Lead Practitioner, Potential & Protection Consultancy Ltd.
Specialist expertise
CCE & Exploitation
CSE
Complex Adolescents
Contextual Safeguarding
Substance Misuse & Safeguarding
Youth Justice & Offending
Statement
A social worker first. A specialist practitioner by experience.
The consultancy is grounded in wider statutory social-work practice rather than treating exploitation as an isolated specialism. Experience includes complex children and families, risk assessment, safeguarding, placement planning, permanence, court work, statutory meetings and multi-agency intervention.
The work has included supporting children whose circumstances involved significant vulnerability, exploitation, gang affiliation, missing episodes, offending, substance misuse and harmful environments.
Professional approach
Child-Centred
Relationship-Based
Trauma-Informed
Contextual
Strengths-Based
Professionally Curious
Constructively Challenging
Practical and outcome-focused
Qualifications & professional standing
BA (Hons) Social Work — 2:1, University of Northampton
Active Social Work England registration
Experience mentoring and supporting ASYE practitioners and student social workers
Professional experience across statutory children's services, youth offending and substance misuse
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