The company was established by Professor Simon Roodhouse in 1999 and has successfully provided strategic consultancy services to international, national and local public and private sector organisations.

Focused on addressing, strategic issues concerned with higher vocational education, and development of cultural and creative industries, the company has undertaken projects for the Victoria and Albert Museum, Fujitzu Services, and NHS, Universities of Glamorgan and Winchester, and further education colleges such as Stockport, South Tyneside and Bradford.

Safe Hands Management Ltd is led by Professor Simon Roodhouse who works with experienced and knowledgeable associates to meet client need sympathetically, and efficiently.  This requires good strategic management, higher levels of analytical skill and creative problem-solving.  As one client put it, “Simon has helped to analyse problems from new perspectives and provided creative, and yet pragmatic solutions.”  

As a result, the company has developed the services it offers and is able to meet the needs of education, cultural and creative industry clients by providing:

• strategic advice on vocational education and training in the context of lifelong learning
• strategic advice, analysis and problem-solving on higher education in work
• strategic advice, analysis and problem-solving, on higher education in further education
• strategic advice on employer engagement and employability
• strategic advice on that the use of National Occupational Standards
• strategic advice on cultural regeneration issues
• strategic advice on how markets and function in the cultural and creative industries
• network and stakeholder analysis
• evaluation
• demand side analysis and baseline studies

Please contact Professor Simon Roodhouse if you would like further information