The Complete Education Solution

The Complete Education Solution (TCES) is a social enterprise providing independent education through our Good schools and specialist services for neurodiverse pupils aged 7 to 19. With schools and services in London and our TCES National Online School, we are able to work with pupils right across the country; the majority of our places are funded by Local Authorities. For the last 22 years we have provided sector-leading therapeutic education and a pupil leadership curriculum across our two day schools and TCES Create Learning Primary and Create in the Community services, which work with more complex pupils who need intensive support as part of our ‘step down’ model. TCES National Online School provides a full curriculum for children who are unable to physically attend school for a variety of reasons, including severe anxiety and school phobia. Most of our pupils present with significant complexity and co-morbidity linked to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) including childhood trauma or secondary trauma linked to family marginalisation, loss of homes or relationships or pupil bullying and multiple exclusions. On joining us, pupils will have already — on average — experienced three permanent exclusions, been out of full-time education for up to 15 months and are recognised to be substantially at risk of being unemployed, developing severe mental health problems and potential involvement with the criminal justice system later in life. Between three and five years after leaving a TCES school or service, 90% of our students are in education, training or employment, going on to study at college and university and pursuing careers in social care, retail and theatre amongst others. Our authentic commitment to inclusion has enabled us to work with over 3,500 children and young people, and in our two decades we have never permanently excluded a single child — fixed term exclusions have also been reduced to zero. We will never give up and never exclude.