NSCoPSE Executive Committee

Chair

Marilyn Tew
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Vice Chair

Brian Dobson
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Brian is Director of Metamorphoses, a private sector consultancy, and is a long standing member of NSCoPSE since ?? [ask Kay!]. He has 15 years’ teaching experience in secondary schools, worked in an education authority’s advisory service for five years, and in the voluntary sector for eight. He was a National Assessor for the National Healthy School Standard and an Ofsted-trained inspector and is the author of several PSHE and drug education resources, including Skills for Life and Developing a Health-Promoting Primary School. His most recent publication is Good day at school?, guidance for Lancashire schools on education and support for children of problem drug users. He is currently working with the DCSF Substance Misuse Team. Brian chairs the Drug Education Practitioners’ Forum and represents NSCoPSE on the Drug Education Forum.

His specialist areas of work in UK are strategic consultancy and evaluation. He works frequently with UN agencies, including WHO, UNODC and UNICEF, with whom he is currently developing a new global lifeskills education strategy.

Brian lives in Lancashire and spends his free time enjoying music, food and reading.

Secretary

John Rees
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John is passionately committed to school improvement and reducing health inequalities by through professional development to enhance the personal development of children and young people.

Having taught for 12 years, eventually as a senior teacher, John was seconded to Devon’s ‘Healthy Schools’ team. Since 1996, John has been responsible for transforming APAUSE www.ex.ac/apause from research project into an effective and sustainable, multi-agency programme across England, Wales and Eire with evidence of educational gain and health benefit which is unique in Europe.

In 2006, funding cuts enabled John to become a freelance PSHE trainer and consultant; retaining links with APAUSE nationally and in Hull but also as Regional Advisor for the National PSHE CPD Programme and PSHE Association in Yorkshire & Humber, Leading on the PSHE CPD in Devon, as a National Assessor and working with the Healthy Schools and Teenage Pregnancy Teams in Hull, Bradford and Gloucestershire but also with experience of international consultancy in Russia, and more recently, China.

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Membership Secretary

Kay Lord
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Kay spent 20 years as a secondary teacher, followed by 15 years as a local authority adviser where she had responsibility for PSHE, Citizenship, Healthy Schools and Physical Education.
Qualifying as an Ofsted inspector in 1994 she worked as part of her LA inspection team and following her retirement in 2003 spent two years as an independent Ofsted inspector for Section 10 inspections, completing her section 5 training in 2005.

She was an additional inspector with Ofsted in 2000-2001 undertaking inspections as part of the Ofsted SRE survey.

She is a member of the Sex Education Forum Advisory Group and also Secretary of the National Health Education Group (NHEG) therefore maintaining good links.

Her recent work has included the EMIE Beacon Council Healthy Schools Dissemination project and she is currently one of the Regional Subject Advisers in the North West for the subject specific support for PSHE Education.

Kay is also NSCoPSE's representative at the Anti-Bullying Alliance

Treasurer

Jane Lees
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Jane's main interests are curriculum development and training for PSD. During the
last decade she has contributed to the development of the PSHE framework and
also to the new Personal Wellbeing SoW. she has drawn on this experience to
assist countries in eastern Europe, the middle East and central Asia to write
their own curriculum frameworks for Lifeskills Education, and to train their
trainers and teachers to deliver them. Jane's forte is training in personal and social
development through group work; She is currently PSHE CPD lead in one LA and
supporting several others. Her other career-long interest is SRE; Jane is also an
associate trainer for the fpa.


Allan Foster
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Sandra Shipton
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Sandra joined Coventry Local Authority in 1998, having worked for the previous eleven years as head teacher of a multi ethnic community primary school in Coventry, and was Adviser for PSHE and Equality until this September.

She is currently Senior Adviser for Educational Inclusion and Participation and has responsibility for Coventry's PSHE and Equality and Healthy Schools teams, 14-19 work related learning and underachieving and vulnerable groups, including able, gifted and talented pupils.

Sandra has had all of her career in Coventry and has been a member of NSCOPSE since joining the Local Authority in 1998


Helen Ann James
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Helen has been a PSHE Advisor in tower Hamlets for over seven years and is Head of Health Education in Children’s services.

Prior to this, Helen worked as a teacher and Senior Manager in three Primary Schools in the West Midlands.

Helen’s specialist areas of work are equalities education and consultation with faith communities particularly the Muslim community when developing Guidance and programmes of PSHE.


Arnet Donkin
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