Increasing the life chances of vulnerable children and young people, including those affected by Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Brian is an independent consultant and trainer supporting vulnerable and traumatised children and young people and their families and carers. Brian also works in partnership with Kate Cairns Associates and the FASD Trust.  

Training, Information, Advice and Guidance can be provided on many issues affecting the life chances of vulnerable children and young people; including FASD, Resilience, Trauma, Attachment, Educational Attainment, Young People's Participation, Voice & Leadership, Fostering and Adoption.  

Brian has also been a Local Authority foster carer for over 20 years. Along with his wife they have provided long term foster care for large sibling groups. Currently, they are the Special Guardians of three girls that they previously looked after and continue to foster babies and toddlers in preparation for their adoption.

Brian is the Chair of the Fostering Networks England Advisory Committee. Brian has been Virtual School Head for Looked After Children in two English Local Authorities and was one of the Virtual Heads who was on the Department for Children, Schools and Families National Pilot. He was also closely involved in national pilots on One to One Tuition, Multi-Therapeutic Treatment Foster Care and the Assisted Boarding School Pathfinder and has given evidence to the All Party Parliamentary Committee on Adoption and Fostering and directly to Ministers on numerous occasions.

In his most recent Local Authority role he worked with Schools, Educationalist, Social Workers and the Health Service on a daily basis. He is currently a Community Governor of a Local School.

At home two of the girls for whom Brian and his wife are Guardian and many of the children that they now foster have been seriously disabled as foetuses by their birth mothers consumption of alcohol while pregnant and this has led to Brian becoming an expert in FASD.

Brian on the national steering committee of the FASD Trust and is Chair of the national FASD Trust Education Forum. He presents on the topic nationally and also advises the Department for Education on the condition he has also appeared on FASD documentaries for the BBC.

More information can be supplied by contacting Brian on fieldofenterprise@gmail.com