Penny Lacey - notice of memorial service
Dr Penny Lacey of UK's Birmingham University's School of Education died quite suddenly earlier this month. The funeral with a memorial service will be held at Coventry Cathedral on Wednesday 11th of February, 2015 commencing at 11:30 a.m.
We were privileged to know and work with Penny since the mid-1990s when she became a good friend of One Hundred Hours in support of our work with families of disabled babies and young children. Our hearts and minds grew together in our shared effort to help professionals work together for the child and family no matter which agency they came from.
When the Yorkshire One Hundred Hours evolved into the national Handsel Trust, Penny became a Trustee and helped us bring the keyworker model and then TAC to a broader audience and into government programmes. At the time of her death Penny was a fellow Director with us of the Handsel Project which is training health professionals all around the country to help sleep-deprived families.
Penny wanted all disabled children to sleep well so that they would be ready to learn in a happy and settled frame of mind the next day. She also believed passionately, as do we, that a family becomes very vulnerable when their disabled child's needs and habits persistently disrupt everyone's sleep.
With Penny's guidance Handsel Project has recently embarked on a new sleep training programme to equip a wider group of staff in schools, centres, care homes, etc to manage disabled children's sleep. Her deep knowledge, gentle approach, optimism and kindness will be greatly missed as we continue this work without her.
Gudrun Limbrick
& Peter Limbrick
The Handsel Project
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