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We would like to introduce you to our organisation and the benefits to your school of working with Inclusive Solutions - a freelance educational psychology consultancy active across the UK. We are experienced educational psychologists with a long history of work on inclusive education, community development and restorative approaches to behaviour and relationships.
Why Inclusive Solutions? 'Inclusive Solutions' is a team of psychologists and associates who specialise in supporting successful mainstream placements for disabled and challenging children and young people. We provide training, consultancy and advice and lead inspirational teambuilding and visioning sessions. Inclusive Solutions makes available cutting edge practical strategies and ideas for developing effective learning for all in mainstream classrooms, schools, and other learning environments as well as the wider communities served by these settings. We use ideas that have been proven to be effective internationally and adapt them for the context and culture in which we are working. Feedback and testimonials regarding a range of our work.
We work with anyone who wants to bring about the real systems changes that are necessary to move towards more effective schools for all. Our view of inclusive education is that it is actually about every child, not just those with disability or SEN. Effective schools are responsive to any kind of difference, making every child feel appropriately challenged and safe. “We are privileged and delighted that Colin and Derek are returning to Galway to work with us. The training event in April was a truly amazing learning experience for us as trainers. For those of you who have not had the opportunity to participate so far - you don’t know what you’ve been missing!” Breda Lymer, West Training & Development Ltd., Galway. Founded in 2001 by Colin Newton and Derek Wilson, Inclusive Solutions is in its 11th year of providing accessible interactive training on all aspects of inclusive practice in education settings for children and young people with SEN, disabilities and those with labels of challenging behaviour. Prior to founding Inclusive Solutions, Colin and Derek were Principal and Senior Educational Psychologists with Nottingham City Education Authority and therefore have many years experience of providing educational psychology support at both individual casework and strategic levels to a wide range of schools. We have links with a range of disabled and non-disabled associate trainers, within the UK and beyond. Full descriptions of our associates We maintain a busy and much visited website here at www.inclusive-solutions.com. We write, produce and publish teaching materials relating to inclusive education and through the ONLINE STORE of our website we promote a wide range of books, DVDs and other teaching aids. Our published books include: Creating Circles of Friends, Circles of Adults, Restorative Solutions and most recently, Keys to Inclusion. For a full listing of the books and other resources available from our website Over the past 10 years we have worked very regularly with educators and childcare providers, including School Principals, Teachers, Teaching Assistants, Special Needs Coordinators and Early Years practitioners, in a wide range of local education authorities across the UK, Europe and beyond. 'Inclusive practice has become more daring, more radical, more inspirational = more inclusive. How exciting and encouraging!' Head teacher – London We have particular interest and expertise in the following areas of work: • Team Problem Solving around young people with significant emotional and behavioural needs using the Circle of Adults process The Circle of Adults process is a 90 minute team problem solving session designed to achieve a deeper understanding of a young person who is challenging to staff and to then create fresh strategies for getting that young person back on track. This is a tool for use with the most vulnerable young people - those at risk of exclusion • High Profile Casework We are not primarily about providing cognitive assessments for individual students. We view these kinds of one-off involvements as being of limited value to educators who want to create more effective learning environments for particular students. We are interested in creating in-depth profiles of young people’s learning needs and in working together with families and key school staff to build shared understandings. We have a particular interest/expertise in the needs of young people with the label of Autism/Asperger’s and how the curriculum and the learning environment can be adapted to meet their needs. We have delivered our training day on Understanding the Needs of Young People with Autism to a wide range of schools in the UK. 'Your report is brilliant. My advocate is very impressed. When it is put into court it will show up the false reports and incompetent reports of all of the fake " expert witnesses." There are a number of important principles in your report writing (taking advice from parents, pursuit of the child's interest first and foremost as opposed to that of the authority involved) that of which hopefully the Judge and LEA will take notice. ' Parent re court report • Person Centred Planning Planning particularly around transition times for vulnerable students. We can directly facilitate sessions using Person Centred Planning tools for particular young people their families and support workers. We can also train staff in the process and graphic facilitation skills needed to run such sessions for themselves. More detail is available at the following page on our website: • Visioning and Action Planning with Leadership (or whole staff) Teams We have wide experience in facilitating sessions with staff teams to build shared vision that leads to medium and shorter-term action plans. We recently facilitated a 2-day visioning and action planning event with the Basildon Academies’ management teams. The Principal of one Essex Academy, fed back that, as a result of our input: ' We have transformed our working. You have created a new collegiality and sense of loyalty - a togetherness that has seen us through an OFSTED inspection’ • Training Days and Twilights A range of training days relevant to whole staff inset day or as twilight sessions for particular teams is available. ' Thank you so much for the excellent training day you delivered last week. I found the whole experience quite uplifting and inspirational. I have always been a great believer in the restorative approach to behaviour management and you provided the evidence that it actually works. The day gave all the staff food for thought and I hope they will now begin to use this approach more. There was already evidence on the first day of school for pupils that staff were adopting a different approach. Thank you so much for helping us to make a difference.' Suffolk Academy Head teacher • Restorative Justice Processes Many schools are now exploring ways in which they can develop their discipline systems further and incorporate restorative interventions into their daily practice. We have championed restorative working for a number of years and have extensive experience of supporting schools to introduce this into their behaviour management repertoire. 'I have just done a rough count of children who have been involved in Restorative Conferences since we completed our training with you and I am up to about 100 children. We have also had about 12 parents involved in conferences. We are using the language so much it is second nature and there have been many more children who have benefited from this I'm sure!' Alison Holmes - Relationship Manager • Peer Support Strategies By far the best seller of the books we have written and published is ‘Creating Circles of Friends’. We introduced this approach to the UK in 1994 and it continues to be widely used in schools as a tool to enhance the effective inclusion of children and young people who are vulnerable to exclusion and marginalisation because of their disability or difference. We are able to set up Circles directly in your school and to supervise their ongoing development. We also provide training days to enable staff to do this for themselves. • Individual Support and Supervision to staff with SEN Management responsibilities The complex challenges of the SENCO role are widely recognised and staff taking on this role do not always find it straightforward to get the support and supervision they need. We currently provide both individual and group supervision to a range of SEN managers and are keen to include this kind of support as part of our ongoing work with a school or group of schools. Let us know if you would like the opportunity to discuss any of the above areas of our work in more depth. Ask to speak to Colin Newton or Derek Wilson the Co-Founders of Inclusive Solutions.
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