Cherryl is the CEO at Standing Together Against Domestic Abuse and the independent Chair of the North Yorkshire DA Board.  Prior to her current role she was Deputy CEO at AAFDA, which enabled her to support the Home Office QA Domestic Homicide Review (DHR) Panel as AAFDA’s representative, and in this capacity reviewed 200+ reports, including decisions not to undertake a DHR.  

Cherryl has worked within the Domestic abuse sector for over 30 years, with a background of perpetrator management as a Probation Service Officer and Victim support as an IDVA.  She has also worked as a Senior manager for over 10 years within the DA Sector, leading award-winning operational transformation and funding mobilisation that have attracted national acclaim, in addition to supporting strategic leadership in two Local Authorities, delivering and improving coordinated community response initiatives, including whole family approaches to domestic abuse in a Children Services Trust, SDVC and MARAC development and IDVA management. As an associate trainer, Cherryl also supported national delivery of the DA Matters program and policy/training development for employers and supports the delivery of the national Home Office DHR Training.  Cherryl is a DHR Chair and has now chaired several Domestic Homicide and Adult Safeguarding reviews as an Independent Consultant and previously supported the Church of England as a Safeguarding Advisor.  An experienced and accredited trainer since 1999, Cherryl has both developed and delivered training to support service development and led national training as a College of Policing Subject Matter Expert. 

Cherryl also holds two judicial appointments which enable her to sit on Mental Health Tribunals as a Specialist Member and as a Disability Qualified Member hearing appeals against DWP benefit decisions.  In addition to supporting the national Social Work Regulator as a Lay adjudicator, Cherryl is also qualified to carry out independent court risk and vulnerability assessments in public law proceedings.