Lauren Whitaker

Special Educational Needs Manager

Lauren has worked with neurodiverse children and their families for years. Supporting them by seeing and meeting their unique needs, helping them to feel nurtured in school, and guiding them, and those who care for them, to empower learning and encourage development.

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Lauren Whitaker has been a teaching assistant, a higher level teaching assistant (HLTA) and a special educational needs manager, working in schools for over 15 years.

Nip in the Bud

Nip in the Bud® was set up to encourage awareness about mental health disorders in children. These relatively common problems which begin in childhood and adolescence can have wide-ranging and long-lasting effects, affecting a child’s relationships, their educational attainment and job opportunities. If left untreated, they could also develop into serious mental and physical health problems and have significant economic and social costs, not just to the individuals and their families, but later in life to the health and criminal justice system too. With early intervention things can be very different.