Education consultancy - supporting you to support struggling young people.
We support schools, alternative provisions and charities to help struggling young people succeed in education.
Can we help you deliver impact for disadvantaged or struggling young people?
We believe education has the power to change lives. We believe that everyone has the right to access that education but that some young people and their families need a little extra support.
We offer a consultancy and support service targeted around those young people who struggle in mainstream education. Our service is driven by a desire to help improve outcomes for those who face the biggest obstacles to success. We want to help you ‘Close the Gaps’.
We help organisations across a range of areas that fit our mission but we have two particular areas of specialism:
1) Making alternative provision as effective and inclusive as possible
We work with alternative provisions, registered and unregistered, from start-ups through to established AP schools. Our aim is to bring support to make sure that they offer the best alternative to mainstream education they can. We support AP’s to meet Ofsted and DfE standards, to gain LA approval and to achieve ambitious outcomes for the young people they work with.
2) Helping schools understand and respond to poverty amongst pupils and their families
We work to support schools to make the most of their pupil premium strategies. We have a particular strength in helping schools respond to the issues around poverty and the barriers disadvantaged pupils face. This includes behaviour support, inclusion, attendance and support for families and communities.
If you are trying to ‘Close the Gaps’ for pupil premium pupils - we can help.
If you want to develop a strategy for addressing the poverty in your cohort - we can help.
If you are trying to ‘Close the Gaps’ for pupils at danger of exclusion - we can help.
If you are trying to ‘Close the Gaps’ for pupils struggling on the fringes of mainstream - we can help.
If you are trying to ‘Close the Gaps’ for pupils with safeguarding vulnerabilities - we can help.
Our Vision
We believe that a successful education has the power to change lives. Find out more about what we believe, who we are and why we do what we do here:
Our Services
We work mainly around two areas:
1) Supporting alternative provisions to help young people reach their potential.
2) Helping schools with pupil premium strategies that improve outcomes and reduce the barriers for pupils and their families living in poverty.
Would you like some support? Take a look at the services we offer here.
Have a look at our most popular blog posts around alternative provision, pupil premium and poverty.
We’ve seen suspensions and exclusions rise by a third in the last year. What can we do?
More about Internal Alternative Provisions.
Pitfalls and priorities for running a strong internal alternative provision.
10 ways to understand the barriers facing pupil premium students
How can you discover what specific barriers your pupil premium students face?.
Guide to setting up an alternative provision
What do you need in place to set up an effective alternative provision.
What is the difference between a registered and unregistered AP?
What is the guidance around unregistered provisions and when to register as a school.
A school approach to poverty
Around a third of our children are living below the poverty line. How can we develop an anti-poverty strategy in our schools?
