About Us
Jingling Lane Training is a family-owned business that specialises in delivering high-quality and cost-effective safeguarding and child protection training, as well as adult safeguarding training, for local, regional, national, and international settings and organisations.
Our courses cover a broad range of themes including (but not limited to) child protection, safer recruitment, risk-taking in adolescence, child sexual exploitation (CSE), mental health awareness, ligature rescue and safeguarding adults at risk.
With a combined experience of over six decades in education and social care, we offer a range of up-to-date induction, training, and development activities based on the latest national, local, and organisational policies, procedures, guidance, and practices.
We understand that flexibility is important when commissioning training, so we can deliver our services at times and locations that best suit your needs, including evenings and weekends.
John
Having spent his teenage years as a looked-after child living in children’s homes and foster care in South London, John graduated from Middlesex University with an Upper Second Class Honours degree in Social Science. Alongside his studies, he volunteered with the mental health charity Mind, the homelessness charity Centrepoint, a primary school mentoring scheme, and the university Nightline listening and advice service.
After relocating to the North West, John began a career supporting children with social, emotional, behavioural, and mental health needs. He brings over 25 years of professional experience across independent special schools and children’s homes. In a voluntary capacity, he has also served as a Foundation Governor at a local primary school and as an Independent Member of Cumbria County Council’s Fostering and Adoption Panel.
Following an award for Outstanding Teaching during his PGCE in Further Education, John has drawn on his personal, professional, and academic experience to specialise in the development and delivery of safeguarding and behaviour support policies, procedures, and training.
More recently, John has been appointed as a part-time Training Manager within a residential home for older adults. He has also worked as an Associate Trainer, delivering online sessions to members of the probation service and face-to-face training to lawyers from the Crown Prosecution Service.
John firmly believes in the principle that “knowledge is power” and maintains a free resource library on the Jingling Lane Training website. The library now features over 1,250 curated links, including organisations, articles, audio-visual materials, and recommended books.
To read more about John’s background, experience and qualifications, please download John’s Personal Profile.
Alex
Alex discovered a love for social care in Lancashire, taking on a part-time job in a local nursing home at the age of 13. Her experience inspired a vocation that became an intrinsic part of her life over the next 35 years. Having worked with a variety of client groups, including young adults with cerebral palsy and brain injury, Alex has spent the last two decades or so working with the elderly, specialising in dementia and end-of-life care.
Alex is a strong advocate of the person-centred approach and is keen on improving the quality of life for people living in social care, by sharing the knowledge, skills and experience she has gained throughout her career.
As a manager in a CQC-registered residential home, Alex leads a multidisciplinary team of over 30 staff and maintains a current knowledge and understanding of the issues facing employers, employees, residents, and their families.
As a graduate of Middlesex University, Alex has completed a Registered Managers’ NVQ Award, the Six Steps to Success in End-of-Life Care Programme and is a qualified trainer in moving and handling.
A large, three-meter-high ram sculpture has been installed at the entrance to Kirkby Lonsdale as a gift from local sculptor Andy Kay.