Sheila Mulvenney

During her career in Health, Care and Education Sheila has worked in a wide variety of settings and roles in the Community, schools, colleges (where she taught on the social work and care management courses) and several local authorities. In addition to working directly with children, young people and families she has in many roles been responsible for developing and delivering training programmes for teachers and school staff, social workers, other social care professionals and parents and carers. The topics have included all aspects of parenting and caring, mental health and resilience, attachment, trauma and child development, as well as behaviour, special educational needs and inclusion. Sheila has also worked in a number of different Virtual Schools for children in care as consultant, deputy head and head and continues to do this on an interim basis. Her book, Overcoming Barriers to Learning' was published in 2017 and she has had articles published in the TES and Guardian.

Since 2021 Sheila has been concentrating on training both face to face and online, including topics such as attachment aware and trauma informed practice, behaviour management, supporting education of vulnerable children and also on wellbeing mindset and phonics.