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The training providers listed below have been approved to provide some or all of the Early Support courses. They can also tell you about introductory courses for those with little knowledge or experience of Early Support.

Contacts are listed by the area they cover. Please note that training providers will arrange courses across the country; you do not necessarily need to contact the provider nearest to you.

Capacity builders work with local partners to:

support the development of an integrated regional approach to supporting workforce development and service improvement
build capacity to deliver Early Support training within an Early Support implementation framework.

Capacity builders are indicated with an asterisk (*)

National

Sue Lewis, Consortium of ES Trainers*
Email: broughton@btinternet.com

Kim Bevan, Bevan Associates*
Email: kim@bevanassociates.co.uk

Victoria Ralfs, Down's Syndrome Association
Email: victoria.ralfs@downs-syndrome.org.uk

Sue Buckley, Down Syndrome Educational Trust
Email: sue.buckley@downsed.org

Trisha Cope, Ewing Foundation*
Email: trishac@ewing-foundation.org.uk

Alison Salt and Naomi Dale, Great Ormond Street Hospital
Emails: a.salt@ich.ucl.ac.uk and dalen@gosh.nhs.uk

Kate Sparling, Hempsall Consultancies Ltd, Leicester*
Email: info@hempsallconsultancies.com
more information: www.hempsallconsultancies.com

Mary Kean, Newborn Hearing Screening Programme
Email: mary.kean@manchester.ac.uk

Nicola Gibson, Pre-school Learning Alliance*
Email: Nicola.Gibson@pre-school.org.uk

Julie Jennings, RNIB
Email: julie.jennings@rnib.org.uk

Jackie Logue, Scope
Email: Jackie.logue@scope.org.uk

Claire Edwards and Shirley Young, SNIP *
Emails: snip@btinternet.com, Claire.Edwards@luht.scot.nhs.uk and sayounguk@yahoo.com.

London and South East

Cherry Hall, Bracknell and Wokingham College Berkshire
Email: cherry.hall@bracknell-forest.gov.uk

Sally Harrison, Early Support Bromley
Email: Espp.general@phoenixsch.org.uk

Angela Capell, Ealing
Email: angela.capell@ealing.gov.uk

Julie Morehead, East Sussex
Email: julie.morehead@eastsussex.gov.uk

Miriam McDonagh, Enfield
Email: miriam.mcdonagh@enfield.gov.uk

Jane Holford, Early Support Essex
Email: jane.holford@essexcc.gov.uk

Linda Fisher, Early Support Essex*
Email: linda.fisher@essex.gov.uk

Ann Wallace, Operational Manager, Lewisham Early Support Service
Email: Ann.Wallace@lewishampct.nhs.uk

Georgie Tyrrell, Merton *
Email: Georgie.tyrrell@merton.gov.uk

Frances Boto and Mary Walters, Sutton
Emails: fran.boto@sutton.gov.ukand mary.walters@sutton.gov.uk

Jill Hayde, White Lodge, Surrey
Email: jhayde@whitelodgecentre.co.uk

Zoe Hale, Waltham Forest Early Years, Walthamstow
Email: Zoe.Hale@WF-PCT.nhs.uk

Ruth Watson, Barnados Hamara Project, Walthamstow
Email: Ruth.watson@barnardos.org.uk

South West

Sharon Powis, Training Consultant
Email: Sharon.powis@btinternet.com

Viv Hollis, Bath and NE Somerset
Email: viv.hollis@bathnes-pct.nhs.uk

Dawn Butler, Bristol
Email: dawn.butler@bristol.gov.uk

Allie Mavor, Cornwall County Council
Email: a.mavor@cornwall.gov.uk

Linda Rigler, Devon County Council
Email: linda.rigler@devon.gov.uk

Lindsey Howell, Dorset, Poole and Bournemouth
Email: l.m.howell@dorsetcc.gov.uk

Gill Newell, SEN Service Manager, Gloucestershire
Email: Gill.newell@gloucestershire.gov.uk

Penny Whitell, ES Co-ordinator, Plymouth
Email: Penny.whitell@plymouth.gov.uk

Viv Hinks, Early Support, Torbay
Email: viv.hinks@torbay.gov.uk

Julia Quartley, Wiltshire County Council
Email: juliaquartley@wiltshire.gov.uk

Midlands and East Anglia

Alice Thomas, Early Support Leicester City
Email: Alice.Thomas@leicester.gov.uk

Karen Wooddisee and Anna Gill, Training Consultants, Norfolk *
Emails: Karen@bness-solutions.co.uk and thegills@btconnect.com

Sara Clark, Norfolk County Council
Email: sara.clark@norfolk.gov.uk

Liz Donoghue, North East Lincolnshire
Email: Liz.donoghue@barnardos.org.uk

Mo O'Neill-Fawcett, North Lincolnshire
Email: Maureen.O'neill-Fawcett@northlincs.gov.uk

Karen Unwin, Nottinghamshire County Council
Email: karen1.unwin@nottscc.gov.uk

West Midlands Early Support Training Consortium *
Email: fholmes@solihull.gov.uk

North

Julia Dunlop, Blackpool
Email: julia.dunlop@blackpool.gov.uk

Karen Sullivan, Bradford
Email: karen.sullivan@bradford.gov.uk

Lindsey Winterton, Early Support Cumbria
Email: earlysupport@cumbriacc.gov.uk

Mike Coyle, CENTRA, Lancashire
Email: mikec@centra.org.uk

Kath Ingleby, Gateshead
Email: kath.ingleby@ghpct.nhs.uk

Colette Gollcher, Gollcher Associates, North West
Email: Colette@gollcherassociates.co.uk

Julie Hutchinson, Hartlepool
Email: Julie.Hutchinson@hartlepool.gov.uk

Sue Cawkwell, KIDS Yorkshire and Humberside
Email: suec@kids-yorkshire.org.uk

Joy Bottomley, Kirklees
Email: joy.bottomley@kirklees.gov.uk

Tricia Smith, Middlesbrough
Email: Tricia_Smith@middlesbrough.gov.uk

Kay Punshon, Newcastle upon Tyne
Email: kay.punshon@newcastle.gov.uk

Early Support, North Tyneside
Contact to be announced

Lynn Turner and Glynis Brookes, North Yorkshire
Emails: lynn.turner@northyorks.gov.uk and glynis.brookes@northyorks.gov.uk

Alison Lewis, Redcar and Cleveland
Email: alison_lewis@redcar-cleveland.gov.uk

Jackie Parkin, Rotherham
Email: Jackie.parkin@rotherham.gov.uk

Sara Bishop, Stockton-on-Tees
Email: sara.bishop@stockton.gov.uk

Liz Clarke, Sunderland
Email: liz.clarke@sunderland.gov.uk

Tracy Murphy-Jones, Wigan Council
Email: T.Murphy-Jones@wiganmbc.gov.uk

Christine Clarke and Jess Haslam, City of York Council
Emails: christine.clarke@york.gov.uk and jessica.haslam@york.gov.uk

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Last updated on 20/11/2009

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