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Meet the Directors

www.earlywormsolutions.co.uk | Dot Webb | DirectorDot Webb is the Director of our Education Services Department. She is highly qualified and holds the PATOSS Practising Certificate ( no.500001257-IF5035) and is a member of the British Psychological Society.

During her career as Teacher, Head Teacher, and Learning Support Adviser, she always managed to be adaptable and learn new skills quickly, whilst maintaining good working relationships with colleagues, parents and a wide range of professionals.

In Scotland she led a working group to research and produce a comprehensive Spelling Programme. This programme was based on work she developed in Edinburgh, which was praised by inspectors and was recommended for the City of Edinburgh Good Practice Record. Dot is a conscientious, methodical education practitioner who has always provided structured lessons for her students based on a thorough assessment of individual learning needs. She is well aware of the need for Continuing Professional Development and attends conferences and workshops for earlywormsolutions to develop new resources and approaches to support for learning, especially the use of IT. She is a member of PATOSS and attends a wide range of courses, which have included Scotopic Sensitivity, IEP development, Target Setting, Write Outloud, Co Writer, using technology to support students, Differentiation and Adaptation as well as Behaviour Management Strategies (including Attention Deficit Disorder and Autistic Spectrum). She has kept her qualification base up to standard. She is a specialist Dyslexia teacher. She currently works within both FE and HE settings as well as individual clients with Dyslexia difficulties.

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www.earlywormsolutions.co.uk | Patrick Webb | DirectorPatrick Webb O.B.E. is our Managing Director and is responsible for the development of business and specialises in both education charity fundraising consultancy as well as providing specialist management and administration services.

Along with his fundraising work and specialist support in the field of Autism, he is a Consultant to the Planned Environment Therapy Trust project and provides a base for and Executive Director services for the Charterhouse Group of Therapeutic Communities. Patrick represents both earlywormsolutions and the Charterhouse Group of Therapeutic Communities nationally both through lecture commitments and writing.

He has developed education services for new Special School settings and led curriculum creation training   leading to Ofsted recognition. He has successfully provided management consultancy for these developing organizations, which has included mentoring, and trouble shooting for management teams.

An accomplished chairperson and negotiator, he recently added the role of Consultant and Executive Producer to –“Bearing the Unbearable” a film and training project inspired by the ideas of Christine Bradley developed with the Maidstone Studios and the interviewer / actress Julie Peasegood, centred on the needs and experiences of both staff and young people in the emotional and behaviour development fields.

Patrick is currently involved in the development of The Council for Therapeutic Communities project and has shared in the writing of Constitution and project development for this national resource in the field of Therapeutic Care and Education provision and monitoring. He has experience with new organization development and writing Memorandum and Article for such bodies. He recently (2009-2010) has helped the Hubbard’s Hills Trust (an environmental and community project) with their early development and fundraising. He is the strategic planning officer for the Lincolnshire Marsh Protection Group.

Until April 2005, he was the Chief Executive of the Harmeny Education Trust Limited, a significant children and young peoples charity. He was fully responsible for a workforce of over 128 employees at this charity, well respected for its work in a specialist field of Care and Education. He is used to working with professionals who monitor this field of increasing complex endeavour. Patrick has a real passion for the design and building of education and care settings and was extensively involved in the work at Harmeny Education Trust which gained both architectural awards as well as much acclaim for its design around need as well as innovation.

He was responsible for the development and funding of two major capital projects in which spearheaded the fundraising effort. Amongst his successes are Harmeny Project (£4.2m), for a Scottish Motor Neurone Disease Association project. 2003 (£45k), PETT (£197k 2010), HMS Trincomalee (£1mover 4 years).

In 2003 he decided that it was time to make plans for the future.

He was General Secretary of the Social Emotional and Behaviour Difficulties Association (SEBDA) 1999-2007

He has represented organizations at Parliamentary sub committees in the Scottish Parliament, and to various organisations and groupings across the UK.

In his leisure time he plays guitar in a traditional jazz band and is now developing a music resource for earlywormsolutions limited for young people with special needs and for those who simply want to make music.

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