School Avoidance Awareness Week 2024

  • Author: Libby Hill, Rob Bell, Kelly Jarvis, Gary Lane, Chrissa Wadlow, Dr Carmel Kent and Charlotte Davis
  • Level: Intermediate
  • Video time: 14 hours approx
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Chrissa Wadlow

Incredibly focused and extraordinarily passionate about justice, mum of 4 Chrissa (who originates from South Wales) has extensive experience in business management and has a special interest in psychology, which has led to her winning awards for her commitment to the SEND community. Chrissa is a seasoned SEND parent (over 20 years!) and proudly neurodivergent, she is an ambassador for the Inflammatory Bowel Disease community, having lived with Crohn’s Colitis since the age of 9.
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Kelly Jarvis

I manage the Advocacy team, alongside supporting parents, families and schools with all things SEND. PDA Education is my specialism!
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Gary Lane

Qualified Integrative Psychotherapist. Accredited ADHD coach, Transformational Coach and somatic experience practitioner. 
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Rob Bell

I’m delighted and proud to be Headteacher at Consilium Evolve. Evolve is a specialist Alternative Provision Academy which caters for secondary age students who experience emotionally based school avoidance. But our academy is so much more than that. We nurture each student to encourage them to take their place in the world, whatever that might be, despite any barriers they have encountered.

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Libby Hill

Multi-award winning speech and language therapist with Small Talk Speech and language therapy. I see children from all over the UK. I have 30 plus years experience, many of which were in the NHS. 

I specialise in ASD, PDA and also Selective Mutism. I have studied animal assisted therapy and have trained the first UK speech therapy dog, Ralph, a chocolate labrador. 
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Charlotte Davies

Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts; qualified to NPQH level in Education;Tomatis L4 Consultant (2018); authored various papers and books on Business and Enterprise Education; researched extensively barriers to learning, including:motor skills; sound processing and visual processing; also the impact of trauma on all areas of development and cognition. Promoter of a better understanding of child development in order to improve outcomes for: children in Care; people with mental health conditions; young offenders; and general education and health outcomes for all.