Contacting NDCS's Regional Directors
NDCS has a team of Regional Directors to promote the interests of deaf children and their families at a local level.
One of their main roles is to influence key decision makers in local authorities and health services to ensure education, health, social care and other public services meet the needs of deaf children.
- North West: Hazel Badjie
- North East: Alison Lawson
- Yorkshire and the Humber: Vacancy
- West Midlands: David Heap
- East Midlands: Linda Cox
- East: Vacancy
- South West: Louise Cole
- South East: Mark Witcomb
- London: Vacancy
North West: Hazel Badjie
Children’s Services Authorities:
Blackburn; Blackpool; Bolton; Bury; Cheshire; Cumbria; Halton; Moseley; Lancashire; Liverpool; Manchester; Oldham; Rochdale; St Helens; Salford; Sefton; Stockport; Tameside; Trafford; Wigan; Warrington; Wirral.
TopNorth East: Alison Lawson
Contact details:
Direct line: 0191 522 5406
Mobile: 07792 661 704
Email: alison.lawson@ndcs.org.uk
Children’s Services Authorities:
County Durham; Darlington; Gateshead; Hartlepool; Middlesbrough; Newcastle; North Tyneside; Northumberland; Redcar and Cleveland; South Tyneside; Stockton; Sunderland.
Yorkshire and the Humber: Vacancy
Interim cover provided by Alison Lawson, Regional Director North East.
Barnsley; Bradford; Calderdale; City of York; Doncaster; East Riding of Yorkshire; Hull; Kirklees; Leeds; North Lincolnshire; North East Lincolnshire; North Yorkshire; Rotherham; Sheffield; Wakefield.
West Midlands: David Heap
Contact details:
Direct line: 0121 234 9834 (a message can be left)
Mobile: 07956 538 630 (SMS only)
Email: davidh@ndcs.org.uk
Children’s Services Authorities:
Birmingham; Coventry; Dudley; Herefordshire; Sandwell; Solihull; Shropshire; Staffordshire; Stoke-on-Trent; Telford and Wrekin; Walsall; Warwickshire; Wolverhampton; Worcestershire.
East Midlands: Linda Cox
Contact details:
Direct line: 01733 326 988 (v/t)
Mobile: 07792 661 675
Email:linda.cox@ndcs.org.uk
Children’s Services Authorities:
City of Derby; Derbyshire; Leicester City; Leicestershire; Lincolnshire; Northamptonshire; City of Nottingham; Nottinghamshire; Rutland.
East: Vacancy
Interim cover provided by Linda Cox - Regional Director East Midlands.
Children’s Services Authorities:
Bedfordshire; Cambridgeshire; Essex; Hertfordshire; Luton; Norfolk; Peterborough; Thurrock; Southend; Suffolk.
South West: Louise Cole
Contact details:
Direct line: 01395 579 643
Fax: 01395 579 643
Mobile: 07890 318 715
Email: louise.cole@ndcs.org.uk
Children’s Services Authorities:
Bath and North Somerset; Bournemouth; Bristol; Cornwall; Devon; Dorset; Gloucestershire; Guernsey; Isles of Scilly; Jersey; Plymouth; Poole; North East Somerset; Somerset; South Gloucestershire; Swindon; Torbay; Wiltshire.
South East: Mark Witcomb
Contact details:
Direct line: 01243 264 629
Mobile: 07792 661 772
Email: mark.witcomb@ndcs.org.uk
Children’s Services Authorities:
Berkshire; Bracknell Forest; Brighton and Hove; Buckinghamshire; East Sussex; Hampshire; Isle of Wight; Kent; Medway; Milton Keynes; Oxfordshire; Portsmouth; Reading; Slough; Southampton; Surrey; West Berkshire; Windsor, Maidenhead and Woking; West Sussex.
London: Vacancy
Interim cover provided by Mark Witcomb - Regional Director South East.
Children’s Services Authorities:
Barking; Dagenham; Barnet; Bexley; Brent; Bromley; Camden; City of London; Croydon; Ealing; Enfield; Greenwich; Hackney; Hammersmith and Fulham; Haringey; Harrow; Havering; Hillingdon; Hounslow; Islington; Kensington and Chelsea; Kingston; Lambeth; Lewisham; Merton; Newham; Redbridge; Richmond; Southwark; Sutton; Tower Hamlets; Waltham Forest; Wandsworth; Westminster.
