Trustees

Chris Palmer Chris is the Service Director for the Learning and Achievement People Directorate of Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council. He has previously held key Education posts for the Government Office for the West Midlands as well as Birmingham City Council.

Professor Philip Gammage was Dean of the Faculty of Education at Nottingham University and is currently an advisor to the State Government of South Australia. Philip holds an Emeritus Chair at Oulu University in Finland. Until 1997 Philip was President of the British Association of Early Childhood Education and Chair of the Tutors for Advanced Courses in Early Childhood Education. Philip was a member of the Start Right Committee on Early Childhood. Until December 2002 Philip held the de Lissa Chair in Early Childhood (research), an unique appointment, supported by the de Lissa Trust Fund and linking the University of South Australia with the Department of Education and Children's Services.

Anne Nelson was an early years advisor in Coventry and former Chief Executive of Early Education (BAECE).

Stephen Phillipson was Dean of Education and Psychology at the University of Worcester. Steve was instrumental in establishing CREC before its establishment as a registered charity outside the university sector.

Sheila Thorpe OBE was formerly Head of Hillfields Early Excellence Centre in Coventry and has been a key government advisor on the development of the NPQICL.

Dr Caroline Sharp is a Principal Research Officer in the Department of Professional and Curriculum Studies at the National Foundation for Educational Research.

Helen Moylett is an independent early years consultant, trainer and writer. She has been a primary, nursery and home school liaison teacher, a local authority senior advisory teacher on early literacy and a senior lecturer in primary and early years education at Manchester Metropolitan University.  In 2000 she left academia to become head of an early years centre.  In 2004 she joined the National Strategies. She was on the national steering group for Birth to Three Matters and was centrally involved in developing the Early Years Foundation Stage as well as many of the National Strategies materials associated with the EYFS. She was also the national lead for the Every Child a Talker programme. She served as an expert adviser to the Tickell EYFS review team and has recently been working on the revised EYFS Development Matters practice guidance.  Helen is currently President of the British Association of Early Childhood Education (Early Education) and a Visiting Fellow of Oxford Brookes University.