Independent Special School Consultancy
We provide a wide range of support services to help you improve or open your school.
The fastest way to achieve the improvements you want.
Support from experts in the Independent Special school Sector
The Directors/Consultants have over fifty years experience between them within the education sector and over twenty years as either Education Consultants, Principals or Head teachers within the Independent Special School sector.
If you are leading an Independent Special School we can provide the support and challenge you need to take your school to the next level. We use an evidence based, real world, solution focused model to achieve positive results quickly.
We understand the challenges you are facing and want to help!
Services at
affordable prices
Many Independent Special Schools struggle to afford the support and training needed to comply with regulatory bodies standards and to achieve the progress towards an outstanding school. ISS Consultancy has a transparent and very competitive pricing structure that allows even the smallest of stand alone Independent Special Schools to access the support they need.
Please see the pricing for each support package under Our Services in the top drop down menu.
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Locations
ISS Consultancy covers the whole of England.
Consultants are based in Cheshire and Cambridgeshire so can cover the majority of the country for face to face support, audits and training, without incurring travel or overnight accommodation costs.
We have access to other specialised support throughout the country to cater for your schools specific needs.
Efficiency
We will agree an action plan with you and work to set time schedules in order to achieve the goals set as quickly as possible. All reports will be forwarded with action plans attached within three working days form our visit.
In a very busy working environment we can help lift the load.
Discretion
The Independent Special School sector is one build on reputation and relationships. We understand this and offer a fully confidential and data regulated service in line with all Data Protection and GDPR regulations.
Ours staff are also trained in Safeguarding for both the safety of staff and students.
Creativity
We pride ourselves on a creative response to problem solving and support. What you need to move forward as a school or individual may be constrained financially or by resistance from stakeholders. We can provide experience led creative solutions, that take these barriers into consideration and help you to keep moving forward.
Our promise
To listen and tailor our support to your needs
Efficient, reliable, honest
service
We promise to provide support that really listens to your needs and provides a SMART response at an affordable price point.
We understand that independent and impartial support can be hard to find in this sector and want to provide you with a listening ear as well as solutions to reinvigorate your school journey.
To provide support that makes a real world difference
Expert consulting - going above and beyond
We promise to tailor our support to provide real world solutions, whilst understanding your barriers to change.
We care about the lived experience of your learners and want to help you find real solutions on a road to outstanding.
Our team
The two Director/Consultants are both experienced leaders within the Independent Special School sector and committed to supporting schools to be the best they can be on a road to outstanding.
Debra Eason
Director and Consultant
With 35 years of experience emerging from industrial Design Management, my instinct has always been to champion improvement and development as demonstrated by a proven track record of delivering efficiency and refinement in education services. As I moved away from industry into teaching, I was also an exam board moderator and a published author of five educational reference books. My career developed with ever more senior roles, enabling me to understand the broader educational landscape in intimate detail.
A QTS teacher with leadership and IOSHH for Schools qualifications, I am an accomplished senior educational leadership professional, having held roles ranging from Executive Head teacher to Principal, with my current status as an Education Consultant. Widely experienced in a broad spectrum of SEN (special needs) environments (PMLD, ASD, SEMH and other learning difficulties). Leader of both residential and SEN schools, PRU’s and Alternative provisions, I have over a decade of experience in School start-ups, registration for OFSTED, writing policies, procedures and the documentation a school needs for operational purposes.
My extensive experience in school improvement and development, staff recruitment, restructuring, training, team building and leadership mentoring form the basis of my drive to deliver excellence in the special educational needs sector, with a passion for achieving the very best outcomes for the children, who must be the absolute priority.
I believe that children learn in different ways and being an Artist and Designer in my previous career, enables me to see very creative solutions to students learning. I am passionate about making a difference and want to support schools and Local Authorities to make that change.
Alec and I have formed this company with a vast network of consultants/ specialists to meet the needs of special schools and residential sites throughout the UK.
Alec Dean
Director and Consultant
I have over 25 years as an educator, qualifying as a secondary science teacher in 1994. I was immediately drawn to working with children and young people who had expeienced barriers to learnig. Over the next ten years I worked within various educational settings from schools specialising in MLD and ASC to charity run projects striving to engage those involved in criminal exploitation with education. For three years I worked with the NHS and local councils to provide training for staff and programmes for young people around substance misuse, presenting several times on a national stage to MPs and leaders in the substance misuse field on my work and findings. I set up the first young peoples' substance misuse screening and education programme for schools and youth services in Northern Ireland during this time.
Ten years ago I moved into work within the Independent Special School sector. I have worked for the majority of this time within schools specialising in SEMH and working with children looked after. I have been a head teacher at four independent special schools, have gained my SENCO qualification and I am currently completing my Masters in SEN. I have a wide experience as a head working both in stand alone small school settings and larger schools that are part of national groups. I have experience of school registration, having set up two schools and a wide knowledge of the regulatary standards for independent special schools. I am an expert in the Independent School Standards, the new Ofsted framework, the SEND Code of Practice and trauma aware school practice.
Over the last ten years I have led schools from start up through to full inspections on two occaisions having achieved at least a Good rating in all areas.
I am an authentic and creative leader that enjoys building schools from the standards upwards to facilitate outstanding learning experiences for students who have experiencesdbarriers to progress and engagement.
Partners
Specialist Support
We have a range of trusted partners who specialise in other areas of school support including:
- Health and safety,
- Facilities and project management.
- HR specialist partner who can support contracting and legal HR processes.
- Therapy specialists.
- OFSTED
- Specialists in different areas of SEND
- SENCO support
- Marketing -social media and online marketing extend
- Headteachers and specialists teachers with curriculum expertise
- Residential school and care specialists to support set up and audits.
- Team teach training
- Behaviour assessment and specialist support
Contact us
Telephone: 07850984968
E-mail: info@issconsultancy.org.uk
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