WA child safeguarding professionals
Bringing local knowledge, child safeguarding expertise and a commitment to child safety across Western Australia
Our team
AKT Advisory is a team of two child safeguarding advisors with extensive experience supporting organisations across Western Australia. Our combined expertise brings local insights and a strong focus on practical safeguarding outcomes.
Alexa Wilkins - Director
Alexa brings over a decade of experience in child wellbeing and safeguarding across Western Australian government. Her background includes roles with the WA Commissioner for Children and Young People, leading policy development and stakeholder engagement to deliver on recommendations from the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse and establishing and working within the WA Government’s Child Safeguarding Implementation Unit to support organisations to become child safe.
With extensive experience consulting directly with children and young people, Alexa brings a strong child centred perspective to her work that ensures children’s voices are prioritised in decision-making.
Through AKT Advisory, Alexa draws on her experience supporting WA organisations to strengthen child safeguarding practice, informed by local knowledge, understanding of WA child safety legislation and insight into what effective, child‑centred safeguarding looks like in practice.
Tom Fleming - Director
Tom brings significant experience and expertise in supporting organisations to implement child safe reforms and improving child safe practices within complex governance arrangements.
With previous roles at the WA Departments of Communities, Health, and Creative Industries, Tourism and Sport working in preventative child safety, establishing reporting pathways for child abuse, and implementing recommendations from the Royal Commission for both the WA Government and WA-based organisations, Tom is well placed to assist organisations in improving their child safe practices wherever they are in their child safe journey.
Through his role at AKT Advisory, Tom has a wealth of knowledge and experience to share, and a passion for keeping children and young people safe from harm and abuse.
Our mission
To support Western Australian organisations to embed child safeguarding practice and culture, helping to create environments where children and young people are safe from harm.
Our vision
All Western Australian organisations uphold the safety and wellbeing of every child and young person.
Our values
Our values of collaboration, integrity, empowerment and a child‑centred approach guide how we work with organisations. They shape practical, respectful partnerships focused on strengthening child safeguarding and protecting the safety and wellbeing of children and young people.