Our Clients

Government Departments and Agencies

The Home Office

  • Providing development support for 70 schools across the country as aprt of the Crime Reduction in Secondary Schools programme
  • Supporting multi-agency partnerships within the On Track programme

Department for Children, Schools and Families

  • Support for multi-agency partnerships and development of data management software within the On Track extension programme

The Learning and Skills Council

  • Development of support materials for the introduction of the Entry to Employment (e2e) programme
  • Planning and delivering a training programme for e2e managers and practitioners
  • Providing bespoke support and training for e2e providers

AZTEC (South West London Training and Enterprise Council)

  • Consultancy support for theNew Start project
  • Supporting the development of the Learning Gateway
  • Providing training and mentoring support for Personal Advisers in the pilot phase

Government Office for London

  • Supporting the development of the Learning Gateway across London

Government Office for the West Midlands

  • Creating an assessment process for Partnership Development Fund bids
  • Training staff in the implementation of the Partnership Development Fund assessment process

Arts Council: Creative Partnerships

  • Training and support for Learning Mentors to plan and implement innovative arts projects in schools

Local Authorities

Bracknell Forest

  • Research into exploring ways of developing the service for pupils with needs in the area of social, emotional and behavioural development
  • Conducting a survey of exclusions in secondary schools
  • Support for the development of an outreach service from the Pupil Referral Unit

Camden

  • Conducting a review of post-16 opportunities for young people with learning difficulties and disabilities

East Sussex

  • An intensibve support programme to develop integrated provision for pupils with needs in the area of social, emotional and behavioural development

Greenwich

  • Training and support for 10 secondary schools to improve behaviour
  • Advice on developing provision for pupils with needs in the area of social, emotional and behavioural development
  • Support for the Excellence in Cities Primary Extension programme
  • Development of the management process for Pastoral Support Plans
  • Production of guidance for schools and Local Authority officers for Pastoral Support Plans
  • Providing a support package for a Primary School and Support Service for pupils with needs in the area of social, emotional and behavioural development. This included support for management, curriculum modelling and development, and development of outreach programmes and monitoring and evaluation procedures.
  • Evaluation of the Behaviour Improvement Programme
  • Delivery of courses in improving behaviour and special educational needs for teachers recruited from overseas

Hackney

  • Conducting a survey into post-16 provision for young people with learning difficulties and disanbilities
  • Carrying out an audit of qualifications, skills and expertise amng staff working in special schools

Islington

  • Development of an Inclusion self-evaluation and development audit for schools in the Authority
  • Training for Special Educational Needs Co-ordinators on developing and reviewing Individual Education Plans
  • Development of a special educational needs and inclusion training directory
  • Support for the implementation of Multi Agency Provision and Placement Panels
  • Evaluation of a multi-agency support project in two secondary schools
  • Management support and curriculum development activities for the Authority's Pupil Referral Units

Lambeth

  • Conducting research into schools' views of behaviour support services to schools
  • Strategic and operational support for the development of an outreach service from the secondary Pupil Referral Unit
  • Carrying out a consultation on a proposal to develop a common banding system for secondary schools and common pre-selection testing

Portsmouth

  • Delivering an intensive support programme, to PRINCE2 standards,for the development and implementation of an innovative solution to integrating provision for pupils with social, emotional, medicaland behavioural development needs. Thiscombined special educational provision, Pupil Referral Unit provision, education for pupils with medical needs,hosptital and home tuition and behaviour support services for primary and secondary schools in the Authority.

Somerset

  • Conducting a review of Pupil Referral Units in the County
  • providing training for LSU managers

Surrey

  • Evaluation of the work of the Behaviour Support Service

Sutton

  • Support to establish a Primary Behaviour Support Team
  • Training for schools and Local Authority officers in developing provision for pupils with nereds in the area of social, emotional and behavioural development

Westminster

  • Support to establishing a Secondary Behaviour Support Team
  • Providing support for the Behaviour Support Team during the implementation phase

Schools and Pupil Referral Units (PRUs)

We regularly work in mainstream schools, maintained and independent special schools and Pupil Referral Units (short stay schools). Our work is wide ranging and includes:

  • Developing induction and assessment programmes
  • Training in behaviour management and effective practice with pupils with needs in the area of social, emotional and behavioural development (BESD/SEBD)
  • Staff observations and coaching
  • Curriculum development
  • Developing provision for pupils with BESD/SEBD needs, both at school- and local authority-levels
  • Assessment and pupil progress tracking
  • Policy and procedures development

We have worked with over 100 mainstream schools, special schools and PRUs in the following areas:

Birmingham Bracknell Forest Cambridgeshire Camden
Cardiff Coventry Devon Essex
Greenwich Islington Kent Lambeth
Medway Merton Southend Nottingham
Portsmouth Richmond Sheffield Staffordshire
Stoke-on-Trent Sutton Swansea Torbay
Tower Hamlets Wiltshire Wolverhampton Worcester