NDCS Regional Directors
In 2008, NDCS appointed 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.
NDCS is dedicated to creating a world without barriers for deaf children and young people. For many years we have campaigned to influence central government policy at Westminster. However, many of the barriers deaf children face are created by policy and investment decisions taken at a local level. NDCS therefore felt we needed to strengthen our presence across the country to ensure that every deaf child in the UK can access high quality education, health, social care and family support services so that they achieve their full potential.
NDCS has successfully built a presence in Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland and is beginning to have an influence on these governments. We have now turned our attention to the English regions and have recruited a team of English Regional Directors.
The nine Regional Directors bring to the NDCS a wealth of knowledge and skills from voluntary and statutory sectors covering social care, early years, family support, education, youth work and health.
NDCS is expecting the Regional Directors to create key local strategic partnerships, which we hope will enable us to have significant influence in shaping policy and provision for deaf children and young people in each region of England.
Regional Directors will be the key link between the NDCS and the senior professionals and decision makers in their region and will be expected to influence and network closely with the key stakeholders in Local Authorities, Children Services Departments, Strategic Health Authorities, Primary Care Trusts, and central government agencies with the aim of ensuring that the needs of deaf children are reflected in commissioning strategies, policies, plans and practice. They will be our main representatives at any review of service provision within a region.
