Pete Murrin is a partner at the legal firm, Turcan Connell in the specialist area of Tax & Succession.  Pete has a particular specialism and interest in helping individuals and families with planning for vulnerable, injured and disabled people.  He also heads up the firm’s internal focus group on Adult Incapacity matters.

Norma is a Specialist Occupational Therapist and Expert Witness. She has significant experience in postural care and moving and handling needs, working with infants, children through to adulthood and old age.  Norma has a passion for educating and supporting the implementation of postural care to protect body shape and prevent secondary complications.  She has been part of the National Postural Care Strategy Group since its creation.

Ceanna is an AAC Specialist Teacher with CALL Scotland. She has always had a passion for language and communication. Originally a French teacher in secondary schools, she moved to an ASN primary school for pupils with complex support needs 10 years ago. Ceanna was a principal teacher, with a focus on communication and assistive technology implementation and development. Having seen the positive impact of effective augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) strategies and tools, she strives to empower young people, and those who support them, by exploring possibilities.

YOU have been established since 2015. The company name was set up by Dr Danielle Farrel who lives with cerebral palsy. YOUs ethos is to give disabled people a voice and this is achieved through a range of services including advocacy, education, training, consultancy, person-centred planning support and self-directed support advice.

YOU have a range of national partner organisations who we work closely with on a regular basis one of those is the Scottish union of supported employment SUSE. We were awarded their award for outstanding contribution at their annual conference last year, this was specifically aimed at Dr Danielle Farrel’s role as their lived experience co-ordinator which involved recruiting a range of disabled people to their lived experience network and working closely with employers to increase their confidence in employing disabled people.

More recently YOU were awarded funding from the National Lottery Community Fund which is enabling us to extend our Dream, Plan, Live programme and offer person-centred planning support to disabled people and families across Ayrshire. YOU can also provide this support through other avenues and we look forward to being able to broaden your knowledge about person-centred planning, a modern approach to it and how you, your loved one or someone you support can access the dream, plan, live, programme as part of this year’s Cerebral Palsy Scotland conference.

Howard is a Director in PwC’s Risk and Compliance Transformation Consulting practice who has taken a personal interest in the progression of the conversation on vulnerable customers and what good customer outcomes really mean practically in terms of Consumer Duty, He is building PwC’s broader practice on inclusion bringing a multidisciplinary team to the challenge of inclusion. Howard has had a continuous dialogue with the regulators, trade bodies, banks and insurers (pension providers), working on a number of engagements since the emergence of the vulnerable customer agenda with some of the UK’s largest financial services providers.

Through this work Howard was asked to sit on the UK Financial Inclusion Commission as a Commissioner bringing insight from both commercial and policy/regulatory spheres. At the request of the FCA, Howard has also inputted into their vulnerable customer guidance. Howard is a strong advocate of a needs led and customer focussed approach to solve the practical challenges day to day faced by consumers. His personal experiences as a wheelchair user provide an added lived experience.