Centre for the Advancement of Positive Behaviour Support

Sarah started her career in social care in the eighties, working as a support worker with autistic children and adults, and with children and adults with learning disabilities. From 1999 to 2010 Sarah was registered manager of a children’s home for autistic children and young people in Brighton, before working as national behaviour support lead at Action for Children.

Sarah has co-authored a number of publications including the Restraint Reduction Network Training Standards, for training that has a restrictive intervention component, and the Welsh Government Framework for Reducing Restrictive Practices. Her main interests are in reducing the use of unnecessary restrictive practices, promoting practice leadership, and working collaboratively with people with lived experience to influence change. She also holds a MSc in Mental Health (Guy’s Hospital, AIIDD, Tizard Centre).

In her current role, Sarah oversees practice leadership qualifications in Positive Behaviour Support and Reducing Restrictive Practices, and the organisations’ workforce and organisational development programmes, all of which promote human rights-based practice.

Professor Edwin Jones PhD is a senior consultant with Bild, and was previously the Bild Strategic Lead for Positive Behavioural Support (PBS).
For around 20 years Edwin worked for Swansea Bay Health Board as a Service Improvement and Research Lead and was involved in service improvement, training and policy development focusing on Positive Behavioural Support. Edwin is an honorary Professor at the University of South Wales.

Previously, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Welsh Centre for Learning Disabilities, University of Wales, where he co-developed Active Support. Edwin chaired the All Wales Challenging Behaviour Community of Practice and was a visiting lecturer at the International University of Catalonia, Barcelona. Edwin has co-developed several accredited e-learning qualifications in PBS. He was vice chair of the UK PBS Alliance, and a member of the Restraint Reduction Network, the PBS Academy, the SF Darrin PBS research network and a member of the Welsh Government Learning Disability Ministerial Advisory Group.

Edwin’s main interests include Positive Behavioural Support, behaviours of concern, Active Support and Practice Leadership and he has published and presented on these issues.
Edwin is committed to promoting human rights and social justice. He speaks Welsh and is interested in co-producing and developing understanding of his main research interests in other languages and cultural contexts.

In his retirement Edwin continues to provide good standard, affordable housing and promote social inclusion as a board member of First Choice Housing Association, he also enjoys spending time at his allotment.

Bev Murphy is a Senior Consultant with the Bild Centre for the Advancement of Positive Behaviour Support (CAPBS), specialising in organisational change and practice development. She has over 40 years’ experience supporting people with learning disabilities, with a long-standing focus on person-centred support, active support, practice leadership, and Positive Behaviour Support.

Bev’s current work spans the UK and internationally, supporting organisations to reflect critically on how support is delivered, strengthen capable and supportive environments, and align leadership, systems, and workforce development with improved quality-of-life outcomes. Aligned with CAPBS’s commitment to PBS as a values-based, evolving framework, her work is shaped by lived experience and learning from everyday practice. Her approach emphasises curiosity, collaboration, and practical learning that helps PBS remain relevant, ethical, and effective in real-world settings.

Stephen Brown is Lead PBS Qualifications Tutor at BILD, supporting Associate Tutors in the delivery of the PBS Level 4 Certificate and PBS Level 5 Diploma. He leads on the development of these qualifications, ensuring they remain current, robust, and aligned with best practice.

Stephen is an active member of the PBS development team, contributing to the ongoing evolution of PBS and supporting colleagues to build strong professional networks for CAPBS Practice Leaders.

He recently led the development of a Strengths-Based Assessment (SBA) for the Centre for the Advancement of PBS, now widely used across health, education, and social care settings.

Stephen has over 30 years’ experience working with people with lived experience, learning disability teams, and service providers across North West England and North Wales, alongside 15 years as a PBS Practitioner and Active Support coach and trainer.

Marie is the PBS Workforce Development Lead at the Centre for the Advancement of Positive Behaviour Support (CAPBS). She brings over 15 years’ experience supporting organisations across education, health, and social care to develop and embed Positive Behaviour Support.

Marie began her career as a support worker with children and young people, where she first saw the impact of Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) on people’s everyday lives. She has since held a range of roles across children’s and adult services, schools, and colleges, including service manager and PBS Lead. Most recently, Marie was Strategic PBS Lead for a national social care organisation, managing a UK-wide PBS team and leading strategy, policy development, large-scale evaluation, and practitioner development.

At CAPBS, Marie supports organisations to embed system-wide PBS and strengthen practice leadership. She leads the PBS Alliance Community of CAPBS Practice Leaders and contributes to the education settings steering group. She has a specific interest in wellbeing, reducing restrictive practices, and school-wide PBS.

Marie holds an MSc in Analysis and Intervention in Intellectual and Development Disabilities from the Tizard Centre, University of Kent.

Outside of work Marie enjoys spending time with her family, playing with her young son, and putting her love of positive psychology into practice through journaling, polaroid photography, and gardening