Who’s who in SEND

Chris McLoughlin OBE

Director of Children's Services

Chris has overall responsibility for all services operating under Stockport Family, including safeguarding children/social care/health and education services to children in Stockport. Chris line manages the Director of operations for Stockport Family and the Director of Education.

chris.mcloughlin@stockport.gov.uk

Tim Bowman

Director of Education

Tim is responsible for the Councils role in Stockport's education provision and line manages Bev Milway, SEND Strategic Lead and Lynn Perry, Head of School Improvement.

tim.bowman@tameside.gov.uk

Bev Milway

Strategic lead for SEND and Inclusion

Bev is the local area nominated officer for SEND. Bev has the line management for the EHCP service/behaviour support service, learning support service, sensory support service and ethnic diversity service. Bev oversees the strategic direction of SEND.

bev.milway@stockport.gov.uk

Heidi Shaw

Principal Lead Integrated Services (Education, Early Help and Inclusion), Heaton and Tame Valley Locality, Stockport Family

Heidi oversees our early help offer to families and how our services work together in an integrated way. Heidi is the principle lead for early help services, education access service and Mosaic. 

heidi.shaw@stockport.gov.uk

Philip Wilkinson

Service Leader for Children's Social Care

Philip is the Children's Social Care lead for SEND and line manages the team leader for the Children With Disabilities team and CWD Short Breaks team. 

philip.wilkinson@stockport.gov.uk

John Gelder

Operational Lead for Education Health and Care plans in Stockport

John has the operational management of the EHCP process and teams. John line manages the team leads.

john.gelder@stockport.gov.uk

Janice Coleman-Holder

Education and Careers Advice Team Lead - Post 16, Careers and Transition Team

Janice jointly manages the EHCP Team and specialises in post 16 provision.

janice.coleman-holder@stockport.gov.uk

Alison Poyser

Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) Team Leader

Alison jointly manages the EHCP team and specialises in pre-16 work.

alison.poyser@stockport.gov.uk

Amanda Lane

Headteacher Learning Support Service

Amanda is the headteacher of the Learning Support Service. The Service provides specialist input into our schools to support them with specialist teaching input and developing provision to meet the needs of SEN learners.

amanda.lane@stockport.gov.uk

Cheryl Knupfer

Strategic Lead for Autism

Cheryl oversees the development of the new Autism pathway for Stockport and the autism team in the Council.

cheryl.knupfer@stockport.gov.uk

Cara Wheeler

Head of Sensory Support Service

Sensory Support Service offer specialist intervention and support to babies, children and young people from 0-25 years who have a permanent or long term hearing loss/are deaf, have vision impairment, or multi-sensory impairment in educational settings and in their homes.

cara.wheeler@stockport.gov.uk

David Eckersley

Head of Service, Adult Social Care

David is responsible for the adult transitions service and the autism, learning disability and mental health services within adult social care.

david.eckersley@stockport.gov.uk

Assistant Team Manager, early Adulthood Team

Tessa is the assistant team manager of the early adulthood transitions team.

tessa.eagle@stockport.gov.uk

Martin Powell

Principle Educational Psychologist

Martin oversees the educational psychology service within the borough

martin.powell@stockport.gov.uk

Team manager of the early adulthood and adult autism team.

emma.gardiner@stockport.gov.uk

Team manager for the Learning Disability Service within Adult Social Care.

georgia.zammit@stockport.gov.uk

Assistant team manager of the Learning Disability Team

sarah.regan@stockport.gov.uk