With decades of senior leadership experience across regulated settings, we understand what it takes to achieve outstanding outcomes, not only in inspections, but for the lives of the children and young people entrusted to your care.
Lisa Rafferty, Managing Director
With over 15 years of senior management experience, Lisa has led and transformed a wide range of regulated services, including children's residential settings, secure adult units and young offender and adult custodial environments. She has consistently delivered Outstanding inspection outcomes and successfully transformed services from Requires Improvement to high performing, stable, and compliant homes.
As the founder of Woodland Care Consultants, she brings extensive experience in working within regulatory frameworks, safeguarding leadership, and driving cultural change within services, creating open, transparent workplace cultures where staff feel supported, valued, and professionally accountable.
Lisa currently works as a consultant Responsible Individual and Regulation 44 Visitor, providing specialist support and guidance to care providers.
Her approach is hands on, quality focused, and rooted in achieving measurable improvement while ensuring children feel safe, valued, and supported. Her inspection track record reflects strong leadership, robust governance, and an unwavering commitment to high standards of care.
Becky Saunders, Managing Director
Becky is an experienced, credible recruitment consultant and leads on workforce consultancy, safer recruitment, and organisational development.
As the founder of our specialist care recruitment company, 4Clarity, she brings specialist knowledge in designing compliant, values led recruitment processes for regulated services. Her work extends beyond recruitment. She builds workforce systems that strengthen culture, protect organisations, and safeguard children at every level.
Her training delivery is practical, regulation informed, and designed to embed safeguarding, professionalism, and reflective practice within teams. By combining safer recruitment expertise with workforce development and mentoring, she supports organisations to reduce risk, improve staff stability, and build confident, competent teams.
With a clear understanding that outstanding children’s services begin with outstanding professionals, her approach ensures every stage of the employee life cycle is rigorous, compliant, and values led.
Our Team
At Woodland Care Consultants, we have a strong team of experienced professionals with backgrounds across children’s residential care, safeguarding, quality assurance, service improvement and safer recruitment.
Our consultants bring practical experience from regulated care settings, including children’s homes, complex needs services, EBD and LD provisions, safeguarding, workforce development and Ofsted readiness.
Our team includes experienced Regulation 44 Visitors, Children’s Social Care Consultants, Registered Managers, Responsible Individuals, qualified social workers and senior leaders. Together, they provide independent oversight, clear guidance and hands on support to help providers strengthen practice, improve compliance and create safe, stable and child centred services.
Woodland Care Consultants is committed to offering practical, honest and improvement focused support that helps children’s services achieve positive outcomes and maintain high standards of care.