Board of Trustees

David Willey: Chair

David served for thirty years in the Fire Service of two Brigades including three years in the Home Office assisting Her Majesties Inspectors when inspecting Fire Brigades across the countries of England ,Wales, Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands, David served his last three years as a Assistant Chief Officer in the Personnel Department of a Fire Service .

Davids next 12 years were spent working at The Children's Hospital in Birmingham as the Deputy Senior HR Manager and also spent three years working as a interviewer on the NHS two year training course for young persons looking for an appointments in Personnel, Management and Finance

Departments David also spent four years on a has and when contract working with what is now the Care Quality Commission inspecting Hospitals.

His last eight paid working years were spent with Birmingham City Council as a Senior Manager responsible for a team of qualified personnel trained persons in the Schools Personnel Department responsible for almost four hundred schools.

Su Beech: Vice Chair

Su worked as a social worker, both in local authority and with the NSPCC, for 18 years before retraining as a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist at BTPP in its early years.

She then worked in a CAMHS team locally, and had a particular interest in work with the under 5s and their families. She maintained links with BTPP both as a service supervisor and a teacher on the M7 course, becoming a Trustee after her retirement in 2011.

Mary Honeyman

Mary qualified in Medicine in Newcastle in 1978 and came to Birmingham to train in Paediatrics in 1980. Her first consultant post was at Selly Oak Hospital from 1988 where fortuitously Paediatrics and CAHMS were in the same management structure and Brian Truckle was part of the multidisciplinary Child Development Team at the Northfield Centre.

Mary subsequently worked as a Community Paediatrician in other Child Development Centres across Birmingham until retiring from the NHS in 2009. She played a prominent role in the training of future paediatricians.

From 2009 – 2017 she was a medical member of the Birmingham Tribunals Service and as part of a panel heard appeals related to disability and work-related benefits such as Personal Independence Allowance and Employment Support Allowance.

Mary joined BTPP as a trustee in 2011 at Shirley Truckle’s request having known about her vision to establish an accessible local training centre for Child Psychotherapy since the 1980s.

Kanese Da Costa

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