Caroline was formerly the Chief Executive and Chair of Solicitors for the Elderly, an organisation she helped to found in 1999. She delivers legal training in house and for many CPD providers, including Central Law Training International, MBL, The Solicitors Group, Professional Conferences and STEP, and is well known in her specialist field, advising  vulnerable adults who have limited physical and/or mental capacity. Caroline is trained to use Makaton signs and symbols for clients who struggle to use spoken language, and writes Easy Read legal information to empower those who struggle to otherwise access legal services.She is a Court of Protection, health and social care mediator and member of the Civil Mediation Council. She has mediated in a wide range of disputes, ranging from contact, residency, deputyships, attorneyships and health and social care funding.Caroline won the Trusted Advisor of the Year 2017 and the Vulnerable Client Practice Award 2017 in STEP’s Private Client Awards. She was a finalist in 2018, 2019, 2020 & 2021  in the Vulnerable Client Practice Award category. In 2019, Caroline was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by Solicitors for the Elderly and made an honorary member of the Professional Deputies Forum. In 2023, Caroline was presented with an Outstanding Achievement of the Year Award at the Private Client Modern Law Awards.Caroline contributes, edits and is the author of a number of leading legal publications:•   The Practitioners Guide to Court of Protection Practice (Bloomsbury)•   Cretney & Lush on Lasting and Enduring Powers of Attorney (Lexis Nexis)•   The Elderly Client Handbook (The Law Society) •   Elderly Clients- A Precedent Manual (Jordans)•   Elderly People and the Law (Jordans)•   The Health and Social Care Handbook (the Law Society)•   Contributor to Heywood and Massey’s Court of Protection Practice•   Formerly on the Editorial Board and contributor to The Elder Law Journal (Jordans)•   Author of ‘A Safeguarding Strategy for Recognising, Preventing and Dealing with the Abuse of Older and Vulnerable People’ (Solicitors for the Elderly now The Association of Lifetime Lawyers)•   Technical Editor of Coldrick on Personal Injury Trusts (ARK Publishing) (1st edition)•   Former contributor to the Older Client Law Service (Tottel), and  Finance and Law for the Older Client  (Lexis Nexis)Caroline currently sits on the Court of Protection Rules Committee and the Law Society's Mental Health & Disability Committee