ABOUT CLEAR Training
Claire Stowe is a specialist trainer and practitioner with over 25 years’ experience working alongside individuals with learning disabilities across education, community services, safeguarding, child protection, care proceedings and domestic abuse settings.
Her career began within further education and community-based adult services, where she supported individuals with learning disabilities to develop independence, communication, and everyday life skills. This early foundation continues to shape her approach, ensuring her work remains grounded in lived experience and a clear understanding of the barriers individuals face both within services and in wider society.
Claire has since built extensive experience within safeguarding systems, working closely with parents with a learning disability involved in child protection, and care proceedings.
She has worked alongside multi-agency professionals including social workers, legal representatives, and health practitioners, supporting improved communication and more equitable engagement within assessments and decision-making processes.
Alongside her frontline practice, Claire has held management roles where she has led and developed specialist services designed to improve accessibility, strengthen safeguarding responses, and support more inclusive practice. This includes designing and delivering structured programmes, overseeing service delivery, and working in partnership with organisations to embed sustainable, practice-based improvements.
Her work focuses on strengthening professional practice where communication, capacity, and vulnerability intersect. She supports services to move beyond assumption-based approaches, ensuring that individuals who benefit from accessible communication are fully understood, able to participate meaningfully, and are not disadvantaged within statutory processes.
Claire’s practice is underpinned by a strong understanding of key legal frameworks, including:
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The Equality Act
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The Mental Capacity Act
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The Children Act
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Department of Health Good Practice Guidance for working with parents with a learning disability
She supports professionals to translate these duties into practical, lawful, and defensible approaches within their day-to-day work.
Claire also brings significant expertise in working with women with learning disabilities who are known to domestic abuse services. Her work highlights the often-hidden nature of coercion, control, and dependency, and supports practitioners to understand how communication barriers can impact risk identification, safety planning, and engagement.
Her training is grounded in frontline practice.
Rather than delivering theory in isolation, Claire provides practical, experience-led learning that reflects the realities of safeguarding systems.
Through CLEAR Training, Claire works with local authorities, domestic abuse services, and wider professionals to strengthen inclusive practice, improve communication, and support compliance with legal and ethical duties.
Claire’s work is driven by a clear principle: that individuals with learning disabilities must not be overlooked, misunderstood, or excluded from the systems designed to protect them - but must be supported to be heard, understood, and meaningfully involved in decisions that affect their lives.
She is equally committed to supporting professionals to feel confident, capable, and equipped to deliver practice that is accessible, lawful, and effective.