Hello, I am a freelance consultant working across special educational needs and children’s residential care, supporting providers, schools and leaders.
My work includes setting up independent special schools, school improvement, and curriculum design, as well as hands-on support within specialist settings. I work both strategically with proprietors and senior leaders and operationally alongside teams, ensuring plans are realistic, compliant, and effective in practice.
A particular area of interest is project-based learning, supporting schools to bring learning to life and improve pupil engagement. I help schools design curricula that give pupils voice, choice, and ownership, while developing essential skills such as collaboration, critical thinking, and problem-solving.
I also have significant experience in curriculum development for children and adults with moderate to severe learning disabilities. I have developed a practical, easy-to-use workbook for Teaching Assistants and Care Workers (see website below), designed to support independent living skills.
In addition to consultancy work, I provide online external supervision for senior leaders and Heads in education and care settings. This supervision is highly valued by leaders as a confidential, non-judgemental space outside their organisation, offering clarity, focus, and challenge. It is not clinical, therapeutic or "fluffy", but purposeful, reflective, and supportive of effective leadership.
I am passionate about supporting settings to deliver provision that is both high quality and sustainable, and about helping leaders feel confident, supported, and clear in their roles.
TG Escapes Modular Eco-Buildings
TG Escapes modular timber frame buildings are sensitive to the environment and net-zero in operation saving money in the long term. They connect the inside to out providing high levels of natural light and easy access to the outdoors, and are self-contained including treatment, sensory and breakout rooms. Modular offsite manufacturing keeps costs low and timescales short.
Using modern methods of construction, traditional materials and sophisticated technology, they create standalone spaces for SEND and SEMH. The innovative bespoke architect designed system provides biophilic buildings to suit most locations and uses, in a variety of finishes including timber, composite cladding or render in a range of colours. Offsite construction minimises disruption, cost and risk and we offer a complete design and build service in house.
The buildings are aesthetically pleasing, ergonomic and highly practical, designed for an A+ energy rating and to last 50 years or more with appropriate maintenance.
Their pre-designed DfE compliant Inclusive Learning Hubs, provide a swift solution to the growing demand for SEND and SEMH provision in mainstream and specialist settings. The biophilic buildings, organised around a central area, offer therapy spaces and classrooms designed to provide young people a choice of areas, inside and outside, where they can retreat to support their learning and sensory comfort.