About Us
Welcome to Social Care Training Solutions
Scott Henery founded Social Care Training Solutions in 2015 to teach Trauma-Informed Care practices to improve outcomes for children and young people in care.
Our live and interactive P.A.C.E. and Trauma-Informed Care online training is concise and engaging. It flexibly enables staff and carers to train from home or the work place.
Meet the team below to learn more about our background in Social Care and our experience of learning and development.
We assure you that all of our trainers share our passion for affecting positive change for the service users in our community.
Meet the Team
We employ a lean and specialised team of trainers with a depth and breadth of experience. Everybody comes from a background in Social Care, so we understand the real demands of the job.
Tori Davey
Tori is your first port of call for initial enquires and ongoing customer support.
Scott Henery
Scott believes that everybody has the power to redefine themselves. He founded Social Care Training Solutions in 2015 with a mission to teach Social Care practitioners and carers how to use psycho-social interventions to holt the complex cycle of childhood trauma and substance misuse.
Dan Packe
Dan Packe has been a valued member of the SCTS team since it’s foundation. He has been working in the field of substance use for over 10 years and regularly lectures and trains on the subject across the country.
Steve Stanier
Steve is a qualified college tutor with over 25 years of experience working with disaffected and hard-to-reach young people and is dedicated to raising awareness of the issues they face in today's society.
Steve brings passion and experience to his training delivery. A specialist in Child protection and safeguarding, he works diligently on issues of child sexual exploitation. He is also a P.A.C.E. therapeutic care advocate and works directly with childhood abuse and trauma victims. Steve is also trained as an ASIST suicide intervention worker.
When he’s not training, Steve enjoys martial arts, computer games and keeps tropical fish and Amazonian poison dart frogs.
Andy Limbert
As well as a longstanding trainer Andy is also an independent Social Worker and Foster Carer. His background includes mental health, crisis intervention with families and fostering. He has also carried out fostering related project work with The Fostering Network. His passion is helping people to work together and understand the complex needs of the children we care for. Andy also loves walking in the mountains with his border collies.
Lindsay Parkin PhD
Lindsay works and trains in the belief that people are fundamentally good and deserve to be heard and that better outcomes are possible with insight and application. He gained his doctorate in understanding developing communication in mainstream children and children with Autism, revealing early childhood experiences' profound impact on lifelong development. He has since worked training and developing communication skills and practices where personal dynamics interfere with effective outcomes. This includes coaching, questions-based dialogue, NVC, and recently, PACE and a trauma-informed approach to challenging behaviours. For the past 6 years, he has also worked facilitating group interventions for people experiencing difficulties in substance misuse and in recovery.
Lauren Wright
Lauren is a passionate social worker with an interest in advocating for adolescents facing exploitation and those who are missing from home. With 10 years of experience in safeguarding, Lauren has developed a comprehensive understanding of the challenges families and individuals encounter, including trauma, vulnerability, and the complexities of the systems that serve them.
Isabel Hill
Alongside training, Isabel is a passionate, qualified Senior Social Worker with experience in Child Protection work and Social Work in Schools. Isabel has worked with a vast range of young people facing adverse childhood experiences and significant contextual safeguarding risks. Isabel has developed a deep understanding of the complex needs of vulnerable young people and families, particularly in high-risk contexts of exploitation, neglect, and abuse.
Siya Twani
Siya is a therapeutic counsellor, youth at risk coach and passionate about "making families work". He has worked as a consultant supporting parenting groups and early years settings. Siya brings a wealth of experience as a Diversity coach. He focuses on supporting the emotional needs of children and young people, strengthening families and promoting resilient communities. Siya also works within schools, training educators and delivering life transforming workshops for young people.
Chris Dade
Chris is a long term trainer with SCTS with over 25 years of experience working directly with children and young people in both care and educational settings. He specialises in engaging the hardest to reach young people including those who run from care, disabled young people and asylum seekers. The PACE model has always been at the heart of his practice. He specialises in re-engaging children affected by trauma and in coaching professionals to become the safe base that these children need. Chris is a truly child centred practitioner and offers training that focuses on providing empowering, therapeutic relationships to children. He continues to work directly with young people and is a trustee for an international charity that works with children who live on the streets.
Jo Woolf
Jo brings a wealth of experience to the team as a qualified Social Worker. She has also trained as a psychotherapist. Jo works with local authorities, charities, government and private organisations. She specialises in Trauma-Informed Practice, PACE, Secure Base, safeguarding, children's rights and equality & diversity. Jo is adept at working with staff, social workers, children & young people, carers and other professionals.
Emma Collett
Emma is an experienced First Aid instructor. She comes from a varied background, having worked as an assistant manager for 4.5 years at an independent fostering agency. Emma is also a qualified teacher and has six years experience in the education sector, having worked with children with special educational needs as well as mentoring pupil premium students. She is also a martial arts instructor, having trained for over 20 years and leading her own club for over seven years, where she has successfully coached many to national success - as well as being a world and European Champion herself.
Diane Morgan
Diane continues to be a fabulous source of knowledge for Social Care Training Solutions, our clients, and our delegates. Diane has worked extensively with local authorities and independent fostering organisations supporting practitioners who work with traumatised children. She has implemented evidence based therapeutic behavioural interventions to children's services, working in conjunction with the Department of Education and Maudsley hospital. Diane is passionate about equipping those that work with traumatised children with practical yet effective tools to support the children in their journeys to better outcomes.
Bennet Obong
Bennett brings his expertise in the fields of equality, diversity & inclusion, and criminal justice. He is using his skills to facilitate the development of Foster Carers in the areas of Safeguarding and other Child Safety training.
A Social Enterprise
Participating in the Accelerator Programme of the Spark Social Enterprise project, supported by the Interreg 2 Seas Programme.
Visit sparksocialenterprise.eu for more information on the Spark project
Training is our vehicle for positive change, as we empower social care workers and carers with the knowledge and techniques needed to move young people beyond the effects of childhood trauma.
As a Social Enterprise we reinvest the money we make back into improving the life chances of the most vulnerable in our society, because for us success is more about the positive impact we make than a traditional measure of “profit”.
We know that our training has a positive ripple effect through society. The therapeutic techniques we impart to Foster Carers impacts the lives of the thousands of children they care for.
We are also committed to giving a voice to our service users, so we have included their unique insights on video as part of our training programmes.
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