About DQS
Helping Care Services Become Stronger, Safer, More Confident, and Ready to Demonstrate Excellence
At Dignity, Quality & Safeguarding Advisory Service, we believe that good care deserves good support.
We work alongside care providers as independent professional partners, offering constructive challenge, reflective insight, and practical guidance that strengthens quality, governance, and safeguarding practice.
We are not a tick-box consultancy. We help services build confidence, strengthen leadership, improve outcomes, and create cultures where quality is embedded in everyday practice.
Because when quality is embedded in practice, compliance naturally follows.
What Makes Us Different
Our approach brings together safeguarding, human rights, mental capacity, governance, quality assurance, and reflective practice within one integrated framework.
We don't just identify risks. We help services build on their strengths and achieve sustainable improvement.
We focus on:
- Stronger leadership
- Better governance
- Safer services
- Reflective practice
- Continuous improvement
- Better outcomes for people
We focus on
Nadezda Gailit
Advanced Social Work Practitioner | Best Interest Assessor
- Nadezda is a registered Social Worker with over 15 years of experience across adult social care, safeguarding, quality assurance, and healthcare services.
- Her career has included frontline, specialist, and strategic roles within local authorities, NHS services, and independent healthcare settings. She has extensive experience supporting providers to navigate complex safeguarding concerns, manage risk proportionately, strengthen governance arrangements, and promote person-centred practice.
- Alongside her advisory work, Nadezda works as an Independent Best Interest Assessor, completing statutory Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) assessments for local authorities. This specialist role provides a detailed understanding of the Mental Capacity Act, human rights principles, restrictive practice, and lawful decision-making.
- Her work is grounded in the belief that high-quality care is achieved through strong leadership, reflective practice, and a genuine commitment to understanding the experiences and rights of the people receiving support.
Professional Registration
Social Work England Registered Social Worker
Registration Number: SW96179
Emma Grady
Mental Health Nurse | Social Worker | Safeguarding & Quality Advisor
- Emma is a dual-registered Mental Health Nurse and Social Worker with more than 20 years of experience across health and social care services.
- Her career has spanned frontline healthcare, secure independent mental health services, safeguarding practice, leadership, and professional education. This unique combination of nursing and social work expertise allows her to bring both clinical and social perspectives to quality improvement, governance, risk management, and safeguarding practice.
- Alongside her practice, Emma lectures at college and university level, supporting the development of future health and social care professionals. Her teaching and consultancy work focuses on safeguarding, legal literacy, ethical decision-making, and reflective practice, helping practitioners apply complex legislation and guidance in a practical and meaningful way.
- Emma is committed to helping services strengthen professional confidence, develop positive cultures, and create environments where both staff and the people they support can thrive.
Professional Registration
Registered Mental Health Nurse (NMC)
PIN: 22F1952E
Social Work England Registered Social Worker
Registration Number: SW144835