CCNUK is a networking organisation, supporting and promoting key working for disabled children, young people and their families. CCNUK is a registered charity and company limited by guarantee. See our NOTES for more about us!
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- Location:
- York, United Kingdom, YO10 4UA
- Phone:
- 01904 567303
- Mon - Fri:
- 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
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Ken was born in Edinburgh and moved with his family to the West Midlands when he was six. He went to school in Warwickshire and attended Leicester University.
After leaving full time education, Ken trained as an accountant, moving into the commercial sector and eventually took up a role as Development Director. While employed in this role Ken worked both in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Life took a real change of direction when his son, who was aged eight at the time, contracted cancer. It was obviously a very stressful time and Ken resigned from his post to see his son through his treatment. Now aged twenty-four his son is doing very well.
Ken fulfilled a lifetime ambition after this break by opening a coffee shop and restaurant in his hometown. This business grew from start up and was soon employing over thirty-five staff and turnover grew quickly. After the breakdown of his marriage it was agreed that the businesses should be sold and there was another change of course in Ken’s life.
In 2001 he decided to join Coventry City Council as the Early Years and Childcare Business Advice and Support Manager. This involved working with organisations from the private and voluntary sector and giving them the tools to ensure that they could be efficient and sustainable whilst delivering high quality services.
In 2004 Ken moved to Suffolk to be their Childcare Support and Development Manager and was eventually employed as the Strategic Childcare Sufficiency and Funding Manager until his move to CCNUK. The role was very wide and varied but Ken took a special interest in services for children with additional needs and disabilities. He remarried and had a stepdaughter with profound additional needs. That experience helped Ken understand some of the frustrations faced by families every day of the week while they try to access the services that their child and family needs. Ken hopes that he can add to the strengths of CCNUK through his own personal experiences and commercial and local authority background.
Ken said: I’m really glad to be joining such an experienced team that is full of enthusiasm. I want to work with the teams and the trustees to move CCNUK forward and make a real difference for children and families by “finding the key to working together in services for disabled children and their families”
After leaving full time education, Ken trained as an accountant, moving into the commercial sector and eventually took up a role as Development Director. While employed in this role Ken worked both in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Life took a real change of direction when his son, who was aged eight at the time, contracted cancer. It was obviously a very stressful time and Ken resigned from his post to see his son through his treatment. Now aged twenty-four his son is doing very well.
Ken fulfilled a lifetime ambition after this break by opening a coffee shop and restaurant in his hometown. This business grew from start up and was soon employing over thirty-five staff and turnover grew quickly. After the breakdown of his marriage it was agreed that the businesses should be sold and there was another change of course in Ken’s life.
In 2001 he decided to join Coventry City Council as the Early Years and Childcare Business Advice and Support Manager. This involved working with organisations from the private and voluntary sector and giving them the tools to ensure that they could be efficient and sustainable whilst delivering high quality services.
In 2004 Ken moved to Suffolk to be their Childcare Support and Development Manager and was eventually employed as the Strategic Childcare Sufficiency and Funding Manager until his move to CCNUK. The role was very wide and varied but Ken took a special interest in services for children with additional needs and disabilities. He remarried and had a stepdaughter with profound additional needs. That experience helped Ken understand some of the frustrations faced by families every day of the week while they try to access the services that their child and family needs. Ken hopes that he can add to the strengths of CCNUK through his own personal experiences and commercial and local authority background.
Ken said: I’m really glad to be joining such an experienced team that is full of enthusiasm. I want to work with the teams and the trustees to move CCNUK forward and make a real difference for children and families by “finding the key to working together in services for disabled children and their families”
Membership is completely FREE to everyone! CCNUK needs membership from everybody who supports the model of key working and care co-ordination.
Join CCNUK today and share our voice, make a statement to government around the importance of key working for families of disabled children.
Email info@ccnuk.org.uk or call us on 01904 567303 to become a member!
NB: we will soon have an online fillable form for membership, but until we're up and running with that, please contact us!
Join CCNUK today and share our voice, make a statement to government around the importance of key working for families of disabled children.
Email info@ccnuk.org.uk or call us on 01904 567303 to become a member!
NB: we will soon have an online fillable form for membership, but until we're up and running with that, please contact us!
CCNUK is a networking organisation organisation promoting and supporting key working for disabled children, young people and their families across the UK.
CCNUK’s mission is to:
work in partnership with disabled children, their families and professionals, to ensure that all families throughout the UK have access to high quality care co-ordination or key worker services.
CCNUK will develop its work to achieve the following six strategic objectives:
1. to promote the model of key working for disabled children and their families at both a policy and practice level
2. to provide information to the families of disabled children, to professional and academic bodies, service providers and commissioners
3. to provide training to new and established key worker services
4. to contribute and support research on key working for disabled children and their families and to look at ways of supporting the implementation of key findings from research
5. to develop the participation of young disabled people and their families, including families and young people from black and minority ethnic communities
6. to manage Care Co-ordination Network UK effectively.
CCNUK’s mission is to:
work in partnership with disabled children, their families and professionals, to ensure that all families throughout the UK have access to high quality care co-ordination or key worker services.
CCNUK will develop its work to achieve the following six strategic objectives:
1. to promote the model of key working for disabled children and their families at both a policy and practice level
2. to provide information to the families of disabled children, to professional and academic bodies, service providers and commissioners
3. to provide training to new and established key worker services
4. to contribute and support research on key working for disabled children and their families and to look at ways of supporting the implementation of key findings from research
5. to develop the participation of young disabled people and their families, including families and young people from black and minority ethnic communities
6. to manage Care Co-ordination Network UK effectively.
Care Co-ordination Network UK (CCNUK)'s Notes
CCNUK's new Director; Ken SandersonSep 30, 2009
How to become a member of CCNUK?Apr 9, 2009
Who are CCNUK?Apr 9, 2009
What is key working?Apr 9, 2009