The team at Redstone provide a high degree of expertise in positive behaviour support through years of training and extensive experience. Members of the team have training to postgraduate level and extensive supervision and mentoring in positive behaviour support. All members of the team are either members of the UKSBA or HCPC, organisations which provide ethical guidance and oversight to professionals.
Kate Strutt
CEO
Kate has over twenty five years’ experience working with people with intellectual disabilities, autistic adults and children. Kate has a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology and an MSc in Applied Behaviour Analysis from Bangor University and has extensive experience working within a PBS framework with adult supported living services, families and schools. She is an experienced practitioner with skills in functional behaviour assessment and PBS intervention planning. Kate and the team at Redstone PBS have developed a practical range of PBS training. Over the last 10 years Kate has specialised in working with organisations strategically to help them develop their PBS skills and ensure that PBS underpins their service models. This has involved a number of PBS reviews and recommendations as well as support for implementation.
Sarah Hobson
Qualified Behaviour Analyst UKSBA Cert
Sarah has worked in the field of applied behaviour analysis with children and young adults with autism for eight years. She initially gained her training whilst working at a specialist college in London; progressing from a Trainee Tutor to a Senior Tutor before moving onto working on early intervention programmes for specific children in their home settings. Sarah’s main strengths include working with young people, delivering and supporting functional communication training interventions (such as PECs, Proloquo2go or Makaton), working with those who engage with behaviours that challenge, and delivering skill building programmes. Sarah has skills in the area of functional behaviour assessment, implementing PBS interventions and coaching staff teams. Sarah has an MSc in Applied Behaviour Analysis at Bangor University and is a qualified behaviour analyst.
Sarah Bracken
PBS Training and Development Lead
Sarah has over 20 years experience of working with children and adults with intellectual disabilities and also those who are autistic. She has worked across a wide range of settings, including specialist schools, residential childrens’ homes and adult residential services. Sarah has a PGCert in Applied Behaviour Analysis and has held the position of PBS lead within an organisation providing adult supported living services. Sarah has extensive experience in developing and delivering training and she provides mentoring support for professionals completing PBS qualifications.
Danny Davis
PBS Consultant Trainer
Danny has over 12 years working with adults with intellectual disabilities and also those who are autistic. He has worked within supported living services for a number of years and and currently work as a PBS Lead Practitioner. Danny has an Advanced Professional Diploma in Positive Behaviour Support (Level 5) and is a Certified Online Learning Facilitator (COLF). Danny has facilitated a wide range of PBS and physical intervention training and has skills in functional behaviour assessment, working with staff teams and implementing PBS interventions.
Fran Butler
PBS Consultant Trainer
Francesca Butler is a Board Certified Behaviour Analyst (BCBA) and UKBA (Cert) based in the South East of England. With over a decade of experience supporting individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, Francesca’s career began in 2013 as a support worker. She has since held various roles, including nursing assistant in a mental health hospital, teaching assistant in SEN schools, and behaviour lead and care coordinator for both community care and short breaks/respite services. Francesca is passionate about improving quality of life for those she supports by empowering people to feel included, understood, and valued
Catherine Mckinnon
Administrator
Catherine provides administrative support to the team at Redstone PBS and has experience in supporting organisations for the past 10 years.
What people say about us..
Redstone have been providing PBS services for individuals and organisations supporting people for a number of years. During this time, through my regular contact with the team, I can say that they have worked with some complex issues and have made significant positive changes for the people and the organisations they have worked with.
Sandy Toogood (BCBA-D) – Behaviour Analyst Behaviour Solutions
Redstone’s introductory PBS session for our parent forum group in Trafford was so useful; it really led me new ideas and solutions that I hadn’t thought of before. Understanding how all behaviour works really opened my eyes to the cycles we can get stuck in.”
Justine Bailey – Director of Trafford Parents Forum
We like the way Redstone works as the staff teams are always happy to put agreed plans into place, which get results. We don’t have the usual issues of teams not following plans with Redstone involved
Head of Clinical Services
“Using organisational behaviour management (OBM) to embed a management culture focused on positive reinforcement, introducing us to a functional living skills assessment, supporting the development of the Periodic Service Review, pushing for practice leads, tracking the engagement of the people we support and ultimately collecting and using data that support decision making, I believe have contributed to the improvement in the quality of life of the people supported and better working conditions for the staff teams.”
‘I just wanted to say thank you so much for the support Redstone has given the service as the remarkable achievement of the ‘outstanding’ CQC ratings attainable.’
Registered Manager – Residential and Supported Living Services
“Thank you so much, the PBS strategy review and development plan has been really helpful to us. We have realised how many elements of our support approach are already in line with PBS; it has helped us to identify where any gaps are, so that we can further develop our high quality specialist service.”
Angela Fletcher – Managing Director at Happy Futures
“Regarding the School wide Tier 1 system Redstone supported the school to implement.
Our children and young people want to develop and mature. The school wide expectations have given them a framework to do that. Alongside dedicated and caring staff they are now better equipped to self regulate and therefore make more academic progress. We have really valued the time and expertise from Redstone professionals.”
Matthew Pike – Principal