Team Profile
TAC (Training, Advice and Consultancy) are a multi-disciplinary
team of professionals, with backgrounds in teaching, careers, youth
work, the voluntary and community sector, work with young people
who offend and academic research.
“We all
enjoyed the day as well as learning a lot from it. We were very
impressed with the trainer - her expertise, knowledge and relaxed
style really helped us to move forward.“
(Hampshire County Council – About Helen Davies)
Helen Davies
Helen is a Principal Consultant with TAC. She is an experienced
secondary teacher, with previous experience in the youth work
field. As a teacher, she had additional responsibilities for
curriculum development and pastoral support as well as delivery for
young people with special educational needs.
Following teaching, Helen ran and managed full time inclusive
education projects for pre and post 16 students, including young
people with severe behaviour problems, care leavers and young
offenders.
Helen is a skilled and highly experienced trainer and
facilitator, and has written and delivered national training
programmes for both the DfES and the Welsh Assembly Government. She
has also been involved with the KS3 Behaviour Strategy and the
Fasttrack programme.
Contact Helen Davies
Jumeyi Akoh
Jumeyi is a Principal Consultant with TAC. After experience as a
secondary school teacher and lecturer (Institute of Education,
Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria), Jumeyi moved to the UK in 1989.
She has designed and delivered training and development programmes
at national and local level. She has worked on projects for the
DfES, DoH, KS3 Behaviour Strategy and a number of LEAs. She is
highly skilled at writing training materials and learner
handbooks.
As a consultant, speaker and presenter on diversity issues,
Jumeyi has a good appreciation of the needs of various ethnic and
minority groups. She has experience of working with multiethnic
groups and served as Diversity Adviser to a government department
and a Regional Development Agency.
Contact Jumeyi Akoh
Liz Pickard
Liz is a Senior Consultant with TAC. She is a qualified and
experienced senior careers adviser and youth worker who has
specialised in working with disadvantaged and de-motivated young
people. Liz has been a lead writer for various training programmes
and project managed a number of research projects.
During her time with TAC Liz has become a skilled and
experienced trainer and facilitator.
“The success of the day was due in no
small part to the capabilities and skills of our trainer from TAC,
who created exactly the right environment and pace for the
day.” (Kent County Council – about Jumeyi Akoh)
Paul Gutherson
Paul is a senior research consultant with TAC and has extensive
experience of researching the education sector. An art and design
specialist, Paul has over five years experience of designing,
leading and conducting primary and secondary research. Prior to
joining TAC Paul qualified as a secondary school art and design
teacher and taught in secondary schools, special educational needs
schools and at University level.
Paul is particularly interested in innovative research design
and participatory research methodology as well as the role of the
arts in tackling social exclusion. He is currently a member of the
Envision advisory group and was a founding member of the Arts
Cinema Trust working to reengage young adults through photography
and video based projects.
Contact Paul
Gutherson
Emma Barton
Emma is a senior research consultant with TAC. A postgraduate in
forensic psychology research, Emma has worked as an Assistant
Prison Psychologist and conducted research with a Child Protection
Unit examining child interviews and procedures for engaging with
children. She has also spent time working with young people in
difficulty, as a project worker overseas.
During her time with TAC Emma has conducted and managed a number
of research and evaluation projects including:
- Reviewing basic skills provision within youth offending teams
and leaving care teams
- Researching the link between poor educational attainment,
truancy and offending behaviour, with young people who have or are
at risk of offending
- Evaluations of intervention projects and training
materials
- A longitudinal study examining the extent to which
multidisciplinary approaches to meeting the needs of excluded young
people are effective beyond the course of the
project/intervention.
Ted Daszkiewicz
Ted is a training and development consultant with TAC. He has a
psychology background and over 15 years of experience in working
directly with young people and practitioners in a variety of
settings as well as a number of years of senior management
experience in young peoples services. This includes experience
within substance misuse, behaviour management, careers and
education.
He has been involved with writing and delivering a variety of
individually tailored courses as well as national training and
professional development programmes. Ted has conducted action
research in developing Motivational Interviewing approaches to
working with disengaged young people and has delivered MI training
to a number of organisations. His experience also covers a number
of different approaches to working with young people, including
Transactional Analysis, NLP and Brief Therapy.
“It was an excellent event
which has stimulated participants to see CAF as part of the bigger
picture and to follow-through on
training.” (Croydon – about Ted
Daszkiewicz)
Rachel Turner
Rachel is a Training and Development Consultant with TAC. She
has experience of training, development, writing and research for
the education and health care sectors. She has provided support for
practitioners working with young people and adults at risk of
social exclusion, including Leaving Care Teams, Basic Skills
teachers, secure settings and the voluntary sector.
A psychology graduate and trained primary school teacher, Rachel
has had five years of experience of designing and undertaking
quantitative and qualitative research into chronic disease in
children and young women's sexual health.
Rachel has extensive experience of liaison and consultation with
clients, sub-contractors and partners and project managed of a
national pilot training programme for the DfES.