Danielle sharp

(nee Davis)

narrative summary

Danielle has over 16 years experience of working within the public and non-profit sector.

She is passionate about creating effective solutions to complex social issues. Her primary area of expertise is interpersonal violence with considerable experience working within the fields of exploitation, domestic abuse, sexual violence and youth violence.

Starting her career working with young people described as ‘disaffected’ she worked in a variety of settings including youth offending, residential youth work and teaching within a Pupil Referral Unit (PRU).

Through these roles she designed and implemented responses, tools and resources around serious youth violence, healthy relationship and sex education as well as sexual and criminal exploitation.

During her work with young people she became interested in addressing the contextual and familial factors impacting young people’s lives, thus moved on to work developing one of the country’s first Family Intervention Project’s (FIP) and subsequently delivering the Governments ‘Troubled Families’ programme within an Intensive Family Focus team in North London.

Having worked with families that would often be described as ‘complex’, she believed it was in fact our systems and the way we work with families that was complex. She decided the only sustainable way to achieve positive outcomes with families and communities was to create tangible changes to the systems themselves.

Focussing on the issue of domestic abuse, she began working in a strategic capacity to understand the system factors that made an impact on reducing domestic abuse. She has worked across three Local Authority areas to develop robust systems responses to domestic abuse including developing multi agency partnerships, strategy, policy, commissioning services and developing monitoring frameworks.

More recently Danielle has worked for the national organisation SafeLives, as the Head of the Knowledge Hub. During her time at the organisation she worked on various projects including; strategic design for a number of local authorities, development of a county wide commissioning strategy, led the national One Front Door pilot, conducted the first year evaluation for the Drive project, evaluated a police force resolution centre, worked on the Comic Relief funded Tech Vs Abuse research as well as contributing to Home Office national commissioning toolkit. She has subsequently worked as an associate developing their Public Health Approach delivery model for local areas.

Since setting up Davis and Associates, Danielle has been able to work on an array of exciting projects which have included working with international non-profit organisations (Plan UK and Ruhama) as a policy and strategy advisor in the areas of prostitution, trafficking and sexual harassment in public spaces. She has worked on evaluations with organisations such as Safer London, evaluating their group intervention for young men displaying harmful sexual behaviour and Surviving Economic Abuse to edit their final Economic Justice Project evaluation. Her particular area of expertise is in population based enhanced needs assessments combining data and the voices of those with lived experience to understand how to strengthen responses. She has conduced needs assessments with over a dozen Local Authority areas in relation to domestic abuse and sexual violence.

She works as an associate for Standing Together Against Domestic Abuse as a Domestic Homicide Review (DHR) Chair. To date she has Chaired four reviews, her first receiving no substantial ammendments following Home Office quality assurance with the remaining reviews awaiting publication or ongoing.

Danielle currently volunteers as a Trustee for the non-profit organisation Justice Is Now. She achieved a BSc Psychology from the University of West London and is a member of the Chartered Management Institute with a Level 7 Certificate in Leadership and Management.

 

achievements

 

skills

  • Strategic needs assessments

  • Organisational strategy

  • Coproduction with lived experience groups

  • Policy development

  • Research

  • Evaluation

  • Audits and reviews

  • Public speaking