Dr Claire Stewart is a paediatric registrar at the Evelina London Children’s Hospital and is the National Trainee Representative for the British Association of Community Child Health (BACCH).  She has won multiple national and international awards for leading transformative quality improvement initiatives that have changed standards. She has 16 peer reviewed publications and has spoken in over 40 national and international conferences.  Recognising that difficult subject matter can create a communication need in any child, her latest work to change the way the voice of the child is heard in clinical conversations and safeguarding proceedings to ensure a need for verbal communication is never a barrier to being heard is driving improvements in care and safeguarding practices across the UK.