Dr Alice Loving has worked within the field of Child Protection for sixteen years, working directly supporting families in the community and within a mother and baby residential setting. She completed her PhD within the Social Care department at Royal Holloway University, which focused on exploring influencing factors on the outcomes for parents working with social services.

Alice delivers mentalization-based video intervention to families working with children’s services, which has in many cases prevented children being placed into foster care. She is CEO of ‘Nurturing Nature CIC’, which she set up with a view to expanding the availability of this type of parenting intervention. She currently holds a post at Swansea University, as Research Officer, evaluating the implementation of parental advocacy programmes in UK Child Protection.