Helping children be understood.
Helping families be heard.
Helping education do things differently.
Consultancy, inclusion support and independent advocacy. Led by a former primary headteacher.
Where would you like to start?
Inclusion, SEND and leadership
Inclusion audits, SEND strategy, leadership support and bespoke training for staff teams.
Explore I'm a parentIndependent SEND advocacy
Someone informed and independent alongside you, so your child's needs are properly understood.
Explore I'm an alternative provisionQuality, assessment and impact
Strategic review, quality assurance and impact frameworks that evidence more than attendance.
ExploreWhat is wrong with this child?
What is this child communicating, and what do they need in order to succeed?
Behaviour, attendance, regulation and engagement all communicate something. Effective support begins by understanding what sits underneath.
Inside the system for twenty years. Now alongside it.
Education should work for the child, not require the child to become someone else in order to access it.
Before moving into consultancy I worked as a primary headteacher, so I know the realities schools face. Over time my work focused increasingly on the children for whom traditional approaches were not working.
That experience shapes everything I do today, across schools, families and alternative provision.
Six principles run through the work
- Understand
- Behaviour communicates. Support starts with what sits underneath it.
- Include
- Not where a child is educated, but whether they experience belonging and real access to learning.
- Empower
- The knowledge, vocabulary and confidence to advocate effectively.
- Connect
- Relationships sit at the heart of change. Connection comes before correction.
- Evidence
- Compassion and evidence belong together, grounded in research and child development.
- Impact
- Meaningful change rather than paperwork for its own sake.
Workbooks for children and young people
Neuroaffirming workbooks that help children understand how their brain works and tell the adults around them what helps.
There is also a free guide for families considering parent advocacy.
Let's talk about what you need.
Whether you are a school, a family or a provider, the first step is a conversation.