Claire Baxter

Experience

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  NHS

  Feb 2011 - Sept 2013

  Early Years Team Lead

  Working with the NHFT sure start centres, to ensure the early years settings were complying to regulations set out by ofsted, and local governing bodies.Delivering early years training to the early years team.Managing and delivering crèche facilities at a variety of locations.

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  Baxter Bears Care

  Sept 2011 - now

  Advocate, PA, Support Worker,

  Self employed carer, working with young people and adults with special educational needs and disabilities.Encouraging Integration into the local communities and offering a wide range of experiences and learning opportunities to develop independence. Working as part of a multi agency team to ensure care packages are fit for purpose.Supporting parents/carers with appointment, administration, etc

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  Northants Parent Forum Group

  Sept 2019 - Oct 2023

  Coordinator Northants Parent Forum Group

  Coordinating Northamptonshire’s independent parent-led group, representing the views of all families of children and young people up to aged 25 with special education needs and / or disabilities (SEND) in Northamptonshire.Working in partnership with service commissioners and providers, sharing knowledge and experience of families to help plan and develop the quality, range and accessibility of provision, creating better outcomes for families through participation and co-production.

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  The Scouts

  Sept 2019 - May 2022

  Diversity and Inclusion Manager
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  North Northamptonshire Parent Carer Voices (NPCV)

  Dec 2023 - now

  Director

  Striving to try and make a positive difference so that services in their area get better at meeting the needs of all families with a young person with SEND.We aim to do this by gathering the views of local families and by working in partnership with local authorities, education settings, health providers and other providers to highlight where local services are working well, or challenge when changes or improvements need to be made.Contact is the delivery partner of the Department for Education in supporting parent carer forums in England.Find out more about our work here: https://contact.org.uk/help-for-families/parent-carer-participation/Northamptonshire Parent Carer Voices will cover North Northamptonshire, however it will maintain a county view as we feel it's important to represent a holistic view when working with cross county services. We want to ensure we can really amplify your VOICES & make sure decision makers & leader’s understand parent carer lives & experiences because if you don’t understand how things impact our families, you can’t make the right choices. Show less