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Dudley Burrell is the Positive Behaviour Support lead at Peak 15. He has worked in Adult Social Care since the late 1980s. He started his career at the Royal Earlswood Hospital as a Nursing Assistant in the Specialist Behavioural Unit. He worked there for 3 years before leaving to work in a variety of community-based services. He came to (what was then) Ashcroft in 1995 as a support worker and began to study psychology and learning disabilities. During his time here Dudley achieved a Diploma in Applied Psychology of Learning Disability at the Tizard Centre, University of Kent and then completed his BSc in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities specialising in applied behaviour analysis. Since graduation, he has applied his studies in the implementation functional assessments and behavioural interventions at Peak 15 and has trained staff in behaviour analysis and Positive Behaviour Support. Dudley is also a certified MAPA instructor training staff in crisis prevention and safe management of incidents. He has been a qualified instructor since 2004. He also gained a teaching qualification completing the TQUK Level 5 Diploma in Education and Training in 2018. Dudley has trained Support Staff at Peak 15 for over 15 years and has now begun training in other organisations within the care sector.