NABLES Sparkles with Award Nomination

NABLES (The National Acquired Brain Injury in Learning and Education Syndicate) has been shortlisted as a finalist for its ground breaking collaborative work.

The Syndicate has secured its place as a finalist in the Child Brain Injury Trust’s Diamond Awards in the Collaboration Award Category.

NABLES was established to identify ways to support education professionals in gaining a minimum level of awareness and understanding about acquired brain injury and the educational requirements of children and young people with acquired brain injury.

The NABLES steering group is comprised of Dr Emily Bennett, Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust; Dr Gemma Costello, Head of Psychosocial Services, The Children's Trust, Tadworth Court; Baroness Morris of Yardley; Petrina Sill, CEO the Eden Dora Trust for Children with Encephalitis; Professor Nathan Hughes, Professorial Research Fellow at Sheffield University, Lisa Turan, CEO of the Child Brain Injury Trust, and Chloe Hayward, Executive Director of UKABIF.

Chloe Hayward, Executive Director of UKABIF, said: “It is wonderful to be recognised in the CBIT’s Diamond Awards. NABLES was set up on the back of recommendations made in the All-Party Parliamentary Group for acquired brain injury’s Time for Change report. It was very clear that there was a widespread lack of training and information in this area for education professionals.

“Through our collaborative working we are continuing to meet with representatives from the Department for Education and working with the National Association of Special Educational Needs we have produced a film about brain injury for newly qualified teachers.

“All the partners in NABLES are delighted to be recognised with this Award nomination.”

NABLES has also published ‘ABI return – Children and Young People with Acquired Brain Injury – guiding their return to education’ . This publication assists professionals involved in helping children and young people with acquired brain injury prepare for, and achieve, a successful return to education.