ABOUT US
Founded by Emma Pinnock, The Essential Education Group is a collective of support for schools, organisations and families who are supporting and living with special educational needs.
The Essential Education Group delivers a range of services which include training, consultancy and assessments, which are all geared towards supporting the neurodiverse individual directly or through those who support them.
Our Vision
The Essential Education Group has the vision to have a national impact on special educational needs and autism specific services and training, whilst positively impacting the learning and lived experience of neurodiverse individuals.
Our mission
The Essential Education Group achieves this by providing high quality therapeutic services and bespoke support to individuals and families, whilst further equipping the education system and person centered organisations to support neurodiversity more effectively, through training and consultancy.
Our values
We strive ourselves on supporting lifelong opportunities for neurodiverse people, innovative thinking and practice, person-centred and well researched approaches. We value the voice of all our stakeholders which enables us to be holistic and thoughtful in our practice.
Latest News, Articles and Announcements
Down Syndrome in the Classroom
Down syndrome in the classroom October is Down syndrome Awareness month, which is why we thought it would be important to understand down syndrome in the classroom. We want to...
World Student Day: Students Anxiety
In honour of it being world student day on the 15th of October, we wanted to focus on students anxiety of all age ranges. Students around the world experience many...
Supporting Reluctant Returners (School refusers)
The return back to school can bring on a wave of emotions for children. For some, displaying emotion can be difficult, creating reluctant returners. While the return may bring...
Teacher well-being? what to consider.
Teachers’ well-being for September - one month completed We are deep in to September, which means lesson planners are planning and our organisation heads are on! While...
Unique Summer Family Fun
Fun activities over the summer holidays When it comes to fun over the summer holidays children and families have an array of activities to enjoy. We all have different interests...
Making disabilities at Work, Work.
Representation of neurodiverse and disabled people in the workplace is a major step in helping society understand all its members. For many young people with disabilities and...