Beverley studied for a degree and qualification in Social Work over 30 years ago. Her career in Social Work has involved working in statutory and voluntary services in London and across the South East of England. Beverley has also worked for the Home Office, Ministry of Justice and Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office as a Child Protection Advisor.
Beverley was also employed as a Child Welfare Worker, working with indigenous communities in Alberta, Canada, where she also became a Commissioner of Oaths. Beverley is a qualified expert witness. In 2015, she was appointed as a Panel member to the Acknowledgement Forum in the Independent Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry. The Acknowledgement Forum engaged with victims-survivors who were abused as children in residential institutions. She continues to sit as a Non-Judicial Panel member in the Redress Scheme for Historical Institutional Abuse.
Beverley was a Truth Facilitator in the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in England and Wales for the duration of the Truth Project. The Truth Project, met with over 6,000 victims-survivors who shared their lived experiences of childhood sexual abuse.
Drawing on all of these experiences, Beverley has been central to developing a trauma-led approach to the collection of personal testimonies by the Panel.