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Sarah Stefano

Director of Residential Care

Leadership

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Mary Hare has been part of Sarah's family for many years, as her mother was a student and border in 1955, and she stayed here until 1961 when she then became a nanny and went to work in America for a year alongside three other students before returning and being a full time cook at Great Ormond Street Hospital. Lip reading was the primary and chosen form of communication when Sarah was being raised by her parents and she will forever be grateful for the opportunities this afforded her throughout my career as it taught her the importance of ‘whole’ communication.

Head and shoulders portrait photo of Sarah Stefano

Sarah has worked in Social Care, and predominantly children’s social care for 30 years, mainly with children and young people in residential care, education and in the community. She qualified as a social worker in 2008 and during this time worked with asylum seekers and with vulnerable adults before returning to work in a leadership position overseeing a national specialist provision for young people who had experienced trauma and adverse childhood. 

Sarah later went on to study for an MA in professional practice within children’s services and developed a supervision training programme for residential staff applying social work theory to this very important process which values residential staff for the support they provide children in any setting.