Janet joined the North West Training and Development Team in October 1999. Janet has a nursing background and has a particular interest in health care in relation to both adults and children with disabilities.
She currently works part time for the North West Training and Development Team and part time managing the UK Health & Learning Disability Network for the Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities in London (www.fpld.org.uk) as well as freelance work nationally.  

Dene Donalds
Associate Consultant
Email: dene.donalds@nwtdt.com
Mobile: 07816 073334

Dene Donalds is an associate consultant who leads on Workforce Development and Organisational Change.

Lynn James-Jenkinson
Team Director
Email: lynn.james-jenkinson@nwtdt.com
Mobile: 07970 900 226

Lynn joined the team as director in April 2005.
Lynn initially qualified as a Nursery Nurse and worked with primary school aged children experiencing speech and language difficulties within a mainstream school. Lynn then worked predominantly within the Single LD Service in Tameside leading the Resettlement programme locally and in relation to NW hospitals and out-of–borough placements, supported employment, day service modernisation etc. before moving to manage more generic adult provider services in Tameside. Lynn moved to Liverpool in 2001 where she co-chaired the Partnership Board and managed generic day services, supported employment and the social work team covering one PCT area as well as residential services to older people. Lynn led on the development of day services, supported employment and person centred planning.
Lynn is a qualified Social Worker and has worked as lead officer in both Tameside and Liverpool for over 23 years.
For the majority of her working life Lynn has been involved in supporting people (as individuals and in groups, people who access support services, their families and staff) and organisations through periods of great change.
Lynn’s main work interest at present involves looking at ways of supporting real community connections and developing real local partnerships with all providers – social care, health, leisure, libraries, housing, employment etc… based on a shared understanding of each others agendas and the priorities of local people and the potential links this has to personalised budgets and the National In Control project.

Phil Palmer
Associate Consultant
Email: phil.palmer@nwtdt.com
Mobile: 07971 176 240

Phil joined the team in January 2004 and works part-time as the Office Manager.

He initially trained to work in the IT industry and spent 15 years working within a number of large organisations developing computer systems.

Prior to joining NWTDT he worked part-time for People First Tameside as the Partnership Board Co-ordinator for Tameside and developed and supported websites for a number of not-for-profit organisations.

Nabela was instrumental in setting up Aap Ka Haq in Oldham.
The aim of Aap Ka Haq is to inform and work in partnership with families and individuals who come from different ethnic backgrounds in order for them to receive support individually tailored to their needs.

She is passionate about person centred planning. And has developed graphic facilitation in order to record peoples dreams and aspirations using all the person centred planning approaches particularly MAP (making action plans) and PATH (planning alternative tomorrows with hope).
Nabela runs graphic facilitation workshops and presents on Partners in Policymaking and other leadership development courses.

To promote the rights of inclusion, particularly with people from other communities Nabela is an active member of the Ethnicity Task Group as part of the Valuing People Regional Agenda she has designed and run the 'Valuing All People' leadership courses. She has also been involved in various research projects, consulting individuals and family members looking at issues from their perspective.