Contact Parent Carer Participation Advisers

Parent Carer Participation Adviser’s support the forum and provide a sounding board for the forum leadership.

Each forum has an assigned Parent Carer Participation Adviser who can support the forum and provide a sounding board for the forum steering group. The adviser will work with forums over a period of time and build a relationship with them. If you do not know who your adviser is you can contact [email protected] and someone will link you to them. 

Advisers can help forums to ensure that they are working within the remit of the Department for Education grant. The review applications for the grant and the subsequent monitoring submitted by the forum. 

They are a source of information on good practice and can link forums with resources to help them with co-production and running the forum. Advisers can be contacted directly by the forum and are able to offer virtual, telephone and email advice and support. 

Advisers will also meet with forums at regional NNPCF meetings and at the annual Contact and NNPCF joint conference. Below you can find the list of advisers.

Yorkshire and Humber

Lisa Aldred – Parent Carer Participation Adviser

Bradford, Calderdale, East Riding of Yorkshire, Hull, Kirklees, Leeds, North Yorkshire, Wakefield, York. North West (all except Wigan) and Cumbria

Email – [email protected]

Phone – 07421 451678


East Midlands and West Midlands

Cindy Baylis – Parent Carer Participation Adviser

Barnsley, Doncaster, North East Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire, Rotherham, Sheffield and Wigan

Email – [email protected]

Phone – 07920 655079


North East

Sarah Lee – Operations Lead and Parent Carer Participation Adviser

North East

Email – [email protected]

Phone – 07920 654967

North West London and South East

Laura Burling – Interim Operations Lead and Parent Carer Participation Adviser

Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, Kent, Medway, Milton Keynes and West
Sussex

Email [email protected]

Phone – 07808 774233

South West and South East

Sue Mennear – Parent Carer Participation Adviser

South West (except Bristol)

South East Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Portsmouth, Reading,
Southampton, Isle of Wight, Surrey, Slough,
Oxfordshire and Wokingham

Email – [email protected]

Phone – 07920 655056


East of England and South East

Olivia Newbolt – Operations Lead and Regional Adviser to the East of England

South East Bracknell Forest, West Berkshire, Windsor and Maidenhead

Email – [email protected]

Phone – 07579 852056

North East London, South London and Bristol

Heather Tarbuck – Parent Carer Participation Adviser

London North East, London South and Bristol

Email – [email protected]

Phone – 020 73264522/07920 655165

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