Gill is a Safeguarding Adult Review author, independent researcher and systems change facilitator with 20 years’ experience working in homelessness, for statutory and voluntary organisations.
Gill’s work sits at the intersection of exclusion and injustice, with a strong focus on preventing the harms and premature deaths that disproportionately affect marginalised communities. She works independently, supporting organisations nationally and internationally to move towards systems change through creative commissioning strategies, collaborative learning and evaluation projects, and practice improvement initiatives that centre lived experience.
Gill is also the Strategic Lead for the Museum of Homelessness Dying Homeless Project and recently published the Radical Safeguarding Toolkit – Homelessness.
In Summer 2025, in collaboration with OHID, Gill will launch an Inclusion Health Safeguarding Self-Assessment Tool as part of a suite of resources designed to support ICSs in their work tackling health inequalities affecting inclusion health groups. For more information about the tool and how to use it, please contact Gill via gill.taylor@pathway.org.uk.
In June 2025, Gill was awarded a Churchill Fellowship which will give her the opportunity to explore pioneering approaches to street-based healthcare and harm reduction, via field research in Canada. She is hoping to learn about how initiatives, like overdose prevention centres, have been designed, commissioned and delivered to prevent homeless deaths and safeguard people from the diverse harms surrounding drug dependency.
Her hope is that the Fellowship will contribute meaningfully to ongoing efforts to prevent drug-related deaths, by unlocking opportunities for adult safeguarding.