Dani Allen is a Nurse Expert Witness and Registered Children's Nurse with over 10 years' experience across tertiary paediatric services, neonatal intensive care, paediatric intensive care, specialist community nursing and safeguarding-focused clinical practice. She currently works as a specialist Children's Continence Nurse, undertaking autonomous clinical assessment, treatment planning and management of complex paediatric presentations.
 

Her practice involves independent clinical decision-making, detailed professional report writing, safeguarding assessment, multidisciplinary liaison and management of children presenting with complex physical, developmental and behavioural needs. She regularly contributes to safeguarding processes, including Child Protection meetings, Fabricated or Induced Illness (FII) concerns and multi-agency information sharing.
 

Dani has direct experience attending court as a professional witness and has been cross-examined by barristers in relation to paediatric care matters. She also has extensive experience producing detailed clinical documentation, safeguarding chronologies and reports relied upon by healthcare professionals, education services and safeguarding agencies.
 

Her previous clinical roles include neonatal intensive care, paediatric intensive care, paediatric palliative care and leadership of complex community care packages commissioned through Integrated Care Boards.