Over 20 Years of
Making Care Safer
Emma Reeve is the Director of Serious Risk Prevention (SRP) and founder of EMLR Consultancy. With over 20 years’ experience in adult and children’s social care, from frontline roles to senior leadership, Emma is a hands-on operator. She goes into services, tests practice, reads culture and data, and turns what she finds into clear actions, stabilisation plans, and board-ready assurance.
Personal Commitment to Safer, Better Care
Emma’s commitment to safer, better care is personal as well as professional. She has a brother with commissioned support needs and has seen first-hand what it feels like to depend on the system. As a Trustee of The Sunnybank Trust, a learning disability charity, she works alongside people with lived experience, families, and frontline teams to amplify their voices.
That mix of home life, charity work, and operational experience drives a simple aim: to help supported individuals and their families feel more confident, teams feel more supported, and leaders/boards have the truth and tools they need to run services where people’s lives and wellbeing genuinely come first.
Practical, Hands-On Consultancy
Emma works with providers, investors, and boards to cut preventable harm and strengthen how services are led, governed, and grown. Her work spans Serious Risk Prevention programmes, operational due diligence, crisis and incident support, mock inspections and inspection readiness, start-up and service development, and interim/stabilisation leadership.
EMLR Services
Our consultancy provides a full range of support for care providers, from strategic leadership to operational improvement and regulatory readiness:
Crisis and incident support after serious events or enforcement action
Interim support for MD / Operations Director / RI roles
Service and portfolio health checks (quality, risk, culture, performance)
Operational due diligence for investors and lenders
Mock inspections and inspection-readiness (CQC, Ofsted, CIW, RQIA)
Stabilisation leadership for struggling services or portfolios
Action plans following inspections, enforcement or inquest findings
Vendor / sell-side readiness ahead of an exit
Board and committee reporting: risk, quality and assurance packs
Start-up support for new services and models (business case, set-up, mobilisation)
Registration support and readiness (policies, systems, evidence)
Occupancy and pipeline improvement where services are under-filled
Leadership coaching and mentoring for MDs, heads of service and RMs
Strategy and growth support (service mix, geographies, commissioning focus)
How Emma Works
People first, performance focused: respectful with teams, rigorous with standards.
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Plain speaking: clear calls, no jargon, no drift.
Hands on: evidence from the floor, not just the files.
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Trustworthy: shows up, keeps promises, and moves at pace.
Committed to Excellence
20+
Over 20 years
of experience
240+
Managed portfolios of over 240 services
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Managed budgets of over £100 million
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Visibility at over
100 inspections
Who Emma has worked with:
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