Chair of National Association for Hospital Education, ex CEO of AP Trust, consultant who is passionate about the needs of children with medical needs & SEND
Daventry, England
Joined August 2014
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Thanks for the shout out @NABLES10 👇
As it was #NationalReadABookDay over the weekend, we highly recommend this book, co-produced with N-ABLES Steering Committee members Dr Gemma Costello and Dr Emily Bennett! 📚
More information available here, and happy reading: buff.ly/xYvuwpx
#BrainInjuryAwareness
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Third time lucky! Having lost my @strickomaster account & my recent new account too here is yet again my new X account.
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Congratulations everybody! We were there & gave you a big cheer!
We’re all super proud of our amazing Abbey School winning the“empowering young leaders” award at the 2026 @YouthSportTrust annual conference. What a team!
Beautiful morning in Northamptonshire as I set off for the @YouthSportTrust conference pre meet with @prusapuk colleagues - looking forward a day of collaboration & learning #thisisap
Thank you @loulordsmith - we have indeed been ensuring that all stakeholders are being consulted!
Hope stakeholders have been involved, such as pupils with medical conditions & their representatives, & experts in providing support for them from alternative provisions such as LA hospital / out of school education too. @CathCathkitchen ıs the most experienced person in this
Hear, hear! Sooo disappointing 😢
Not a single commitment in this 10 year strategy to support and invest in the over crowded, crumbling special & AP school estate. Nothing. Nada. Zilch. I’m not surprised anymore, but I wish I could move beyond the chronic disappointment this still yields
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Thank you @RealGeoffBarton for giving us the opportunity to raise the profile of hospital education & contribute to the @IPPR SEND report @NAHEUK podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcas…
Great opportunity to contribute to a book written by the sector for the sector 👇
🚨🚨🚨 Edited Book on #AlternativeProvision - Call for 300 word abstracts for chapter contributions - Details here: apresearchnetwork.com/new-pa… Deadline November 17th 2025. Reposts welcomed 🙏 🚨🚨🚨
Looking forward to reading this 👇
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21 behaviour and attendance hub schools named - are any of them AP or special? Why are we still being missed out of the narrative?? schoolsweek.co.uk/government…
Full circle moment this week - helping my daughter set up her classroom & back her display boards - almost 30 years ago, she was my helper!
That’s really kind - it is great to have a network of colleagues that we can recommend to give sound advice from liver experiences 👇
One thing that feels really important is to elevate others and share in their joy when they do work wherever. I’m forever recommending @SwailesRuth , Sue Cowley (cant find her), @CathCathkitchen amongst others to say “actually they do better than me on this”.
Thank you to @av1_noisolation for persuading me to write my first blog about challenges and triumphs for children with medical needs - an a plug for the book of course! Check it out: noisolation.com/uk/articles/…
These are excellent resources 👇
#PansPandasHour community are so thankful for @CathCathkitchen's advocation of the unique needs of kids with sudden onset SEND from neuropsych conditions
@PANSPANDASUK offer training in these conditions for schools. Please consider for 25-26 calendar panspandasuk.org/events/
Thank you @Ofstednews for your presentation & answering our tricky questions with candour
Looking forward to todays @AP_ResearchNet conference, particularly individual researchers findings from direct work in the sector #alternativeprovision
Thank you for raising this @W1986Rebecca - such an important point & we need to advocate for the children we work with!
panspandasuk.org/post/medica… Don't forget inclusion must also include catering for medical needs in schools. @CathCathkitchen has done some fantastic writing on the needs of @PANSPANDASUK children. #PansPandasHour
