OnlyMums & Dads Director of Training,
Clinical Psychologist Dr Angharad Rudkin MA(Oxon)
Dr Angharad has over 20 years' experience of working with children and their families. She has co-authored a number of books for children and parenting books, including the 'Split Survival Kit', a book for children about divorce. Dr Angharad was a relationship expert for the Metro for 9 years and continues to regularly appear on radio and TV to discuss child mental health and parenting. She has consulted with Government bodies as well a private organisations around child well-being and worked at the University of Southampton where she was a lecturer for 12 years.
Professor Anna Tarrant
Professor of Sociology, University of Lincoln
​Anna is Professor of Sociology at the University of Lincoln. She is Director of the Centre for Innovation in Fatherhood and Family Research and leads a UK Research & Innovation Future Leaders Fellowship research study called ‘Following Young Fathers Further’ (FYFF). FYFF is a seven-year qualitative longitudinal and participatory study of the parenting journeys and support needs of young fathers. Anna has been researching men’s care responsibilities and family lives from a lifecourse perspective for well over a decade and has published several books, journal articles and other outputs. Notable examples include The Dynamics of Young Fatherhood (Neale and Tarrant, 2024), Men, Families and Poverty (Hughes and Tarrant, 2024) and Fathering and Poverty (Tarrant, 2021). Her work is also driven by innovative methodologies, including qualitative longitudinal research, qualitative secondary analysis and co-creation, that are being employed to advocate for and embed father-inclusion across the social welfare, public health and justice landscape.
Stephen was called to the Bar at the age of 21, having graduated in law from Sheffield University. He practised as a specialist family barrister for 27 years with a well-established family team in Bristol, as both junior and then, from 1999, in silk.
Stephen began sitting as a part-time judge at the age of 37 and was then appointed as a Deputy High Court Judge in 2004. In 2007 he took a full-time appointment to the Circuit bench. From 2013, he sat as a Circuit Judge in Devon and Cornwall, hearing family, civil and criminal cases.
In 2013 Stephen was appointed as the Designated Family Judge for Bristol and the surrounding counties; in that role, he heard all types of family cases, in particular those concerning Financial Remedies, ToLATA, Private Law Children and Public Law Care. He also supported and pioneered many initiatives to help litigants in person.
Stephen now acts as a Private FDR Judge, an early neutral evaluator and is a qualified children law arbitrator.
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Stephen Wildblood KC
Shiva specialises in all aspects of private law children cases including complex fact-finding hearings, parental alienation, and those with an international element.
She also has considerable experience in public law care proceedings and undertakes complex cases including non-accidental injury, serious sexual abuse, and factitious illness. Her practice also involves, forced marriage, child abduction and adoption.
Shiva has a growing arbitration practice and her wealth of experience in private children matters and fair approach make her ideally suited for children’s arbitration work.
Outside of work, Shiva is a co-opted trustee of her local Women’s Aid branch.
Shiva Ancliffe KC
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Mark handles both public and private children law work inlcuding care and adoption issues, as well as finance matter such as TOLATA. Mark also advises local authorities and claiments in relation to Human Rights Actclaims, particularly those involving Section 20.
Mark comes from a background in mixed common law and has specialized solely in family law for the last 12 years, before being appointed KC in 2017. His practice includes the most complex of cases, including those involving severe injuries, international movement of children and abduction, and BIIR. He regularly appears at all levels of court, including the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal, on landmark cases that become leading authorities in their areas.
Mark Twomey KC
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