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Rebecca Ashworth

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Rebecca joined the Emmaus Central Team in June 2025 as Safeguarding Support Officer and is based within the Primary Education Team. Rebecca is a qualified and registered Social Worker with over 20 years experience of working with children and families in various roles including family support work, statutory agencies, education and the voluntary sector and Rebecca holds a BSc Honours degree in Psychology (achieved in 2007), a Level 3 Diploma in Childcare (2011) and a Masters degree in Social Work (2013) and is qualified as a Practice Educator (for social work students).

Rebecca has held Designated Safeguarding Lead roles for the past 10 years, which has included school based social work across various primary and secondary schools within the diocese of Salford. Prior to joining the Emmaus CAT Central Team, Rebecca held a lead safeguarding role in a large secondary school within Emmaus CAT for two years.

Rebecca is passionate about safeguarding children and offers particular skills in child-centred and relationship-based interventions in schools, having developed a keen interest in trauma-informed practice. She prides herself on working creatively, to ensure that children’s voices and lived experiences are heard and advocated for by professionals.

On the Road to Emmaus

13 Now that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles[a] from Jerusalem. 14 They were talking with each other about everything that had happened. 15 As they talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself came up and walked along with them; 16 but they were kept from recognizing him.

17 He asked them, “What are you discussing together as you walk along?”

They stood still, their faces downcast. 18 One of them, named Cleopas, asked him, “Are you the only one visiting Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days?”

19 “What things?” he asked.

“About Jesus of Nazareth,” they replied. “He was a prophet, powerful in word and deed before God and all the people. 20 The chief priests and our rulers handed him over to be sentenced to death, and they crucified him; 21 but we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. And what is more, it is the third day since all this took place. 22 In addition, some of our women amazed us. They went to the tomb early this morning 23 but didn’t find his body. They came and told us that they had seen a vision of angels, who said he was alive. 24 Then some of our companions went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but they did not see Jesus.”

25 He said to them, “How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken! 26 Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?” 27 And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself.

28 As they approached the village to which they were going, Jesus continued on as if he were going farther. 29 But they urged him strongly, “Stay with us, for it is nearly evening; the day is almost over.” So he went in to stay with them.

30 When he was at the table with them, he took bread, gave thanks, broke it and began to give it to them. 31 Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him, and he disappeared from their sight. 32 They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”

33 They got up and returned at once to Jerusalem. There they found the Eleven and those with them, assembled together 34 and saying, “It is true! The Lord has risen and has appeared to Simon.” 35 Then the two told what had happened on the way, and how Jesus was recognized by them when he broke the bread.

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