Education · Safeguarding · Substance Use · Workforce Development
Training that makes a real difference.
Practical education and professional training that builds confidence, strengthens understanding and supports better decisions.
From substance use and safeguarding to wellbeing, resilience and workforce development, Waymark creates relevant learning experiences for schools, care services and professional teams.
15+ years
Daniel's professional education and training experience
50,000+
Young people reached through Daniel's career delivery
Across sectors
Experience spanning schools, health, safeguarding and support services
Training for your setting
Different settings. The right approach for each.
Choose where you work to find training shaped around your people and priorities.
Drug education young people will engage with.
Pupil workshops, assemblies, vaping education and practical staff development.
Explore school trainingHelp teams respond with more confidence.
Workforce sessions on substance use, safeguarding and accessible communication.
Explore care training
Training grounded in frontline practice.
Focused CPD and briefings for safeguarding, public health and partnership teams.
Explore professional trainingAlternative provision, PRUs or SEND? Alternative provision and specialist setting options are available too.
What you can book
Clear training options, with room to tailor.
For pupils
Drug, vaping & risk education
Age-appropriate sessions for schools, colleges and young people.
Explore session options and guide prices
Discuss pupil sessionsFor school staff
Staff CPD & safeguarding briefings
Practical training for staff, DSLs, pastoral teams and leaders.
Explore CPD options and guide prices
Discuss staff trainingFor services
Tailored workforce development
Commissioned workshops for care, local authority and multi-agency teams.
Tailored quote
Discuss your workforceStart with your learning priorities. Guide prices are available with the detailed training options; your written quote confirms scope, duration, group size, travel and tailoring before booking.
Experience behind the learning
Real delivery experience. No scare tactics.
Daniel draws on frontline-informed work across education, safeguarding, health and community settings. Sessions are designed to connect with the people in the room, not just deliver slides.
Relevant: Focused on challenges your team or learners recognise.
Practical: Built around conversations, judgement and next steps.
Balanced: Evidence-informed and proportionate.
A clear basis for your decision
Know what you are commissioning
Discuss the learning need directly with Daniel. Before a booking is confirmed, agree the audience, proposed content, delivery approach and full quote.
Review the proposed session
Ask to review an outline and relevant sample materials, and discuss how the content fits your curriculum or workforce-development priorities.
Agree access and safeguarding
Discuss communication needs, group size, materials, staff involvement and the procedures the session should work within.
Decide how to check learning
Agree clear learning outcomes and suitable feedback or knowledge checks, with practical next steps your team can follow up.
The person behind Waymark
Meet Daniel.
I work directly with schools, services and professional teams to make complex subjects understandable, relevant and useful.
Waymark brings together my experience in substance use education, safeguarding and workforce development with a straightforward, human approach to training.
Learning disability & autism
Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training enquiries
Discuss Tier 1 and Tier 2 workforce needs. Official delivery is subject to approved training-team and programme arrangements being confirmed before booking.
Let's talk training
Tell me what your people need to learn.
Share your setting, audience and priorities. We can shape a practical session or programme around what matters.
Prefer a conversation? Call 07790 047930