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Expert Witness Profile
East Yorkshire
Areas Covered: UK, Worldwide
Colin Beacock
Registered General Nurse (RGN)
Registered Nurse - Learning Disabilities (RNLD)
Learning Difficulties
General Nursing
Prison Service Nursing Care
Brain Injuries (Traumatic and Acquired)
- Masters Degree in Services for People with Learning Disabilities (1994)
- Certificate in Education (1987)
- Diploma in Nursing (1986)
- Registered General Nurse (1984)
- Registered Nurse for People with Learning Disabilities (1979)
- International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disability
- Association of Practitioners in Learning Disability
- Royal College of Nursing (RCN)
- Over 19 years’ experience as an independent Expert Witness, Training and Policy Development Consultant and Rehabilitation Manager specialising in major and catastrophic injuries.
- 12 years’ experience as an Honorary Visiting Lecturer at the University of Hull.
- 5 years experience as a Specialist Adviser at National Institute for Clinical Excellence.
- 5 years experience as an Honorary Visiting Research Fellow at De Montfort University.
- Over 50 years' experience as a Registered Nurse in the roles of practice, management, education, consultancy, policy and practice development in a wide variety of clinical and social setting.
Colin has been actively involved as a practitioner, teacher, manager and policy consultant in social care, healthcare and education since 1975.
Colin’s nursing background has focused upon the needs of vulnerable and marginal groups within society including people with disabilities and autism, prisoners and patients in high security services, as well as people who have suffered catastrophic injuries. His work in rehabilitation and enablement has included experience in policy development at national level as well as direct person-centered care for individuals and families. This work has taken him across the UK and Europe, with a particular involvement in services in Romania.
Colin has worked as a Care Expert since 2005 when he completed the Bond Solon course and he has been instructed by both Defendant and Claimant in over 800 cases. Colin has regularly given evidence in Court throughout that time.
- Cert Ed Dissertation: “New Lamps for Old! The Place of Enhanced Vocational Qualifications in the Healthcare Workforce” : College of Ripon/ York St John (1987)
- Master of Arts Dissertation: “Lessons to Learn: An Analysis of the Cultural Issues Raised by the Ashworth Hospital Inquiry”; University of York (1994)
- Beacock C, “Triggers for Change” in Standards & Mental Handicap; Thompson T and Mathias P, Bailierre Tindall, (1992)
- Beacock C, “A Journey Without End: Creating a Developmental Strategy for Staff in Secure Forensic Settings” in “Lyttle’s Mental Health and Disorder (2nd Edition)”; Thompson T and Mathias P, Bailierre Tindall (1994)
- Beacock C, “Educational Theory and Curriculum Issues”; “Economic Dimensions of Learning Disability”; “Establishing Services - A Case History of Romania” in “Dimensions of Learning Disability”, Gates B and Beacock C (Eds), Bailliere Tindall (1997)
- Beacock C, “A System of Education and Training for the care of people with Special Needs who Display Violent and Dangerous Behaviours” in “Aggression and Violence”, Turnbull J and Patterson B, MacMillan, (1999)
- Beacock C, “Is High-Security Care Necessary for Persons with Learning Disability” in “Forensic Mental Health Nursing”, Tarbuck P, Topping-Morris B, Burnard P, Whurr (1999)
- Beacock C, “Evolution or Revolution; The Place of Negotiation in Organisational Change” in “Managing and Leading Health Care”; Bailliere Tindall (2002)
- Beacock C, “The Policy Context” in “The Handbook of Forensic Learning Disabilities”; Riding T, Swann C, Swann B, Routledge, (2005)
- Beacock C and Beacock S, “How Litigation, Inquiries and Forensic Analysis have Driven Developments in Professional Regulation” in “Encyclopaedia of Forensic and Legal Medicine 3rd Edition”; J Payne-James, R Byard, Elsevier (2024)