Dawn has 15 years experience in the health and social care field working in areas including mental health, disabilities, elderly care, early years and residential socal care with children and young people.

During the last 7 years Dawn has specialised as a trainer, assessor and internal verifier for NVQ's in health & social care - children and young people.  Dawn has a partcular forte for developing and delivering training courses and packages to meet the needs of the workforce whilst ensuring the safety security and well being of the client group.

Dot has a total of 30 years experience working in the field of care from Pre-school, to voluntary work in a family home with social services and also with Mencap in a summer school; Work with Children with learning difficulties compounded with severe challenging behaviour in a residential setting, moving on to caring for 6 young adults with autism in their home as manager.

Dot managed a home where 6 young people lived; their background being emotional and behavioural difficulties.  From here Dot’s role changed to training and development, building a training department within the organisation.

With 14 years experience working with NVQ, and supporting staff through training,  Dot is an assessor, internal verifier and is the Centre Co-ordinator for A New Day.