Adesua Osime

Adesua Osime  is an Associate with On Point Inspire and a senior children’s services improvement leader with over 15 years’ experience strengthening quality assurance, safeguarding governance, and partnership effectiveness across multiple local authorities and safeguarding boards.

Her background includes leadership roles in local authority children services, senior Ofsted inspection, multi-agency safeguarding leadership, and strategic improvement roles, giving her regulatory insight, operational delivery expertise, and practical experience in translating national policy into local practice.

Through On Point Inspire, Adesua provides specialist support to local systems to deliver measurable improvement by:

• Strengthening quality assurance frameworks to reduce safeguarding risk and improve inspection readiness
• Embedding Family Help and wider children’s social care reforms into front-line practice
• Improving front door arrangements, triage and threshold decision-making to enhance timely support for children
• Clarifying multi-agency safeguarding arrangements, roles and escalation pathways
• Building reflective learning cultures that sustain workforce improvement
• Supporting leadership oversight, challenge and governance to ensure accountable decision-making

She has applied her knowledge of national reform programmes, including Stable Homes, Built on Love, Working Together 2023, and Family First and Family Help transformation, across multiple local authorities, improving operational delivery and partnership outcomes.

Recent work includes leading the Family First Pathfinder quality assurance programme in a London Borough,  supporting Safeguarding Children and Adults Boards to enhance governance and partnership assurance, and providing targeted support to councils to strengthen practice quality, workforce culture, and leadership accountability, resulting in demonstrable improvements in safeguarding practice and inspection readiness.

Adesua’s approach is relational, systemic and outcome-driven. She focuses on embedding sustainable capability, improving multi-agency practice and governance, and ensuring tangible improvements in the lived experience of children