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Skills for Care support in your area

At Skills for Care we’re committed to supporting the adult social care workforce to lead, deliver and grow. 

Our locality managers work with adult social care providers at a local level, as well as a wide range of other partners within the local health and care systems.

They’re available to answer queries and questions on a range of topics such as:

  • workforce development, including funding available
  • workforce planning
  • workforce wellbeing
  • support and guidance for registered managers
  • recruitment and retention initiatives
  • integration and working with health.

 

Locality managers can signpost you to information relevant to your needs, share best practice and can connect you with local groups, networks and events you may find useful.

 

Support from locality managers can be via phone or email, and you can find out who your locality manager is by clicking on your local area below.

Lee Mummery - Head of Area (Eastern)

07816 319 043 | Lee.Mummery@skillsforcare.org.uk

 

Norfolk

Fran Simons - Locality Manager
07770 488 953 | Fran.Simons@skillsforcare.org.uk 

 

Cambridgeshire, Peterborough, Suffolk

Emma White - Locality Manager
07800 868 637 | Emma.White@skillsforcare.org.uk

 

Milton Keynes, Central Bedfordshire, Bedfordshire Borough, Hertfordshire, Luton

Becci Metcalfe - Locality Manager
07909 873 231 | Becci.Metcalfe@skillsforcare.org.uk

 

Essex, Southend, Thurrock

Sara Harris - Locality Manager
07817 764 283 | Sara.Harris@skillsforcare.org.uk

Louise Whitley - Head of area (London and the South East)

07809 401 728 | Louise.Whitley@skillsforcare.org.uk

 

London and the South East

Laura Anthony - Senior Locality Manager
07890 514106 | Laura.Anthony@skillsforcare.org.uk

 

London and the South East

Lena Cox - Locality Co-ordinator
07521 867 919 | Lena.Cox@skillsforcare.org.uk

 

North East London 

(Barking and Dagenham, City of London, Hackney, Havering, Newham, Redbridge, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest)

Glory Nyero - Locality Manager
07592 920 880 | Glory.Nyero@skillsforcare.org.uk

 

North Central London

(Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey, Islington)

Ben Coleman - Locality Manager
07791 594 819 | Ben.Coleman@skillsforcare.org.uk

 

South West London 

(Croydon, Kingston-upon-Thames, Merton, Richmond, Sutton, Wandsworth)

Ali Porteous- Locality Manager
07970 937 362 | Alison.Porteous@skillsforcare.org.uk

South East London

(Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark)

Margaret Sharpe - Locality Manager
07989 355 886 | Margaret.Sharpe@skillsforcare.org.uk  

 

North West London

(Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith and Fulham, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Westminster)

Selena Docherty - Locality Manager
07825 933 674 | Selena.Docherty@skillsforcare.org.uk
 

Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Berkshire

(Bracknell Forest, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Reading, Slough, West Berkshire, Windsor and Maidenhead, Wokingham)

Rachel Reid - Locality Manager
07770 507 812 | Rachel.Reid@skillsforcare.org.uk
 

Surrey

Marianne Davis - Locality Manager
07779 352 039 | Marianne.Davis@skillsforcare.org.uk
 

Sussex

(Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, West Sussex)

Karen Stevens - Locality Manager 
07969 749 451 | Karen.Stevens@skillsforcare.org.uk
 

Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Portsmouth, Southampton

Debbie Boys - Locality Manager
07717 725 710 | Debbie.Boys@skillsforcare.org.uk
 

Kent and Medway 

Pia Rathje-Burton - Locality Manager
07815 429 173 | Pia.Rathje-Burton@skillsforcare.org.uk 

Shirley Way - Head of Area (Midlands)

07974 387 313Shirley.Way@skillsforcare.org.uk

Worcestershire, Shropshire, Herefordshire, Telford and Wrekin

Claire Jenkins - Locality Manager 
07967 247 220 | Claire.Jenkins@skillsforcare.org.uk

 

Derby City, Derbyshire, Birmingham, Solihull 

Lucy McDonald - Locality Manager 
07925 035 111 | Lucy.McDonald@skillsforcare.org.uk 

 

Coventry, Warwickshire

Rachel Shaw - Locality Manager
07971 078309 | Rachel.Shaw@skillsforcare.org.uk

 

Walsall, Sandwell, Dudley, Wolverhampton, Stoke, Staffordshire

Suzanne Petrie - Locality Manager 
07708 108 115 | suzanne.petrie@skillsforcare.org.uk

 

West Northamptonshire, North Northamptonshire,  Leicestershire, Leicester City and Rutland

Lauren Stacey - Locality Manager
07761 739 957 | Lauren.Stacey@skillsforcare.org.uk 

 

Nottingham City, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire

Nat Riley - Locality Manager
07817 387 848 | Nat.Riley@skillsforcare.org.uk 

Lindsey Dawson - Head of Area (North West)

07901 111 027 | Lindsey.Dawson@skillsforcare.org.uk


Blackburn with Darwen, Blackpool, Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness, and Lancashire

Matthew Errington - Locality Manager
07909 997 401 | Matthew.Errington@skillsforcare.org.uk


Bolton, Bury, Rochdale, Salford and, Wigan

Jez Ashdown - Locality Manager 
07811 393 424 | Jez.Ashdown@skillsforcare.org.uk


Cheshire East, Cheshire West and Chester, Halton, Warrington

Alison Everett - Locality Manager
07894 708 536 | Alison.Everett@skillsforcare.org.uk


Knowsley, Liverpool, St Helens, Sefton and Wirral

Ali Davenport – Locality Manager
07732 493 639 | alison.davenport@skillsforcare.org.uk


Manchester, Oldham, Stockport, Tameside and Trafford  

Carol Mitchell - Locality Manager 
07779 351 734 | Carol.Mitchell@skillsforcare.org.uk

Christiana Evans - Head of Area (South West)

07500 782 755 | Christiana.Evans@skillsforcare.org.uk

 

Bath, North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire

Wenda Hobbs - Locality Manager
07842 634 452 | Wenda.Hobbs@skillsforcare.org.uk

 

Gloucestershire, Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset

Keryn Morris - Locality Manager 
07970 383 789 | Keryn.Morris@skillsforcare.org.uk

 

Cornwall, Devon, Plymouth, Torbay and Isles of Scilly

Jill Croskell - Locality Manager
07592 920 879 | Jill.Croskell@skillsforcare.org.uk 

 

Somerset, Dorset, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole

Holly Stockdale - Locality Manager
07989 355 878 | Holly.Stockdale@skillsforcare.org.uk

Karen Morse - Head of Area (Yorkshire and the Humber and the North East)

07770 441 879 | Karen.Morse@skillsforcare.org.uk

 

Darlington, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland, Stockton on Tees

Diane Reynolds - Locality manager
07814 972 576 | Diane.Reynolds@skillsforcare.org.uk

 

Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, North Lincolnshire, North East Lincolnshire

Peter Northrop - Locality Manager
07817 760 387| Peter.Northrop@skillsforcare.org.uk

 

Sheffield, Barnsley, Rotherham, Doncaster

Zoe Thomas - Locality Manager 
07792 425 219 | Zoe.Thomas@skillsforcare.org.uk

 

Leeds, Wakefield, Kirklees

Ailsa Benn - Locality Manager 
07719 005 325 | Ailsa.Benn@skillsforcare.org.uk

 

Calderdale, Bradford

Denise Baran - Locality Manager 
07742 499 116 | Denise.Baran@skillsforcare.org.uk

 

York, North Yorkshire

Angela Thompson - Locality Manager 
07813 031 257 | Angela.Thompson@skillsforcare.org.uk

 

County Durham, Gateshead, Newcastle, Northumberland, North Tyneside, South Tyneside, Sunderland

Wendy Adams - Locality Manager
07823 444 136 | Wendy.Adams@skillsforcare.org.uk