The Good Schools Guide brings together the largest collection of data, information and advice about special educational needs of any organisation in the UK. It is authoritative, up-to-date and written from the inside – by parents for parents.
Many of the Good Schools Guide Education Consultants team are parents of children with special educational needs and disabilities.Click here to meet the team.
While our SEN specialist consultants may not have personal experience of every educational need, they are vastly experienced and understand how hard it can be to get your child’s difficulties identified, acknowledged and then adequately supported. They understand the stresses of wrestling with local authorities, getting funding and finding the best possible school to give your child the opportunities he or she deserves. They have personal experience of taking local authorities to Tribunal, and attending school exclusion panels. They can tell you how to obtain specialist reports and can help you to decipher and use to your advantage those you have received. And they can help you to make the difficult decision about whether your child would be best placed in a mainstream or specialist school.
Our consultants are experienced in dyslexia, dyspraxia, speech and language problems, autistic spectrum disorder, ADD/ADHD, learning difficulties, disability, mental health problems, behavioural disorders, post-adoption issues, school exclusions, global delay, sensory impairments, genetic conditions … you name it, we’ve helped clients with it.
Gifted and talented children also need additional support – we understand that too. You will find that our consultants understand what you are dealing with without the need for exhausting explanations. They also know the schools, understand the system and can lay their hands on all available information.
Bringing up children – whatever the rewards and pleasures – is never easy and no parents need the additional stresses of battling over a child’s SEN provision. Let us take the strain.
While there is no such thing as the “perfect” school and a good school for one child will not be a good school for another, there is no question that UK schools have a deserved world-wide reputation for all-round excellence. The Good Schools Guide Education Consultants regularly help children to gain places at all the top schools in the country.
You’ve got the job. You’ve made the decision. For whatever reason, you’re on the move. There is always a lot to think about and it can be hard to know where to start. Find a new house? Or find a new school? And where are the good schools?
It can happen anywhere. Fortunately, in the majority of cases bullying issues will be dealt with sensitively and effectively.
We hope the answer to this, perhaps rather cheeky, question is, ‘yes’! All good parents want the best for their children. They want their child to have opportunities and the chance to develop every bit of potential they have.
Scholarships are there to be won. In general, scholarships are awarded to candidates who excel – either academically or in sports, arts, music etc. Most scholarships these days are not worth a large percentage of the fees though this is not universally true and, for example, a music scholarship can, in some cases, be worth up to half the normal school fee. Some scholarships are largely honorary which means that the scholar gets the glory but very little fee remission. Scholarships do not depend on the family income.