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
Thriving with disability – Resilience, Community and Goals.
Disabilities are something which are still misunderstood by a lot of people. Encouragingly, however, there are people within the disabled community who are using their platforms...
Neurodiversity labels, do they matter?
In the last few decades, we’ve come to understand neurodiversity better than ever before. While there is still a long way to go, there have been improvements in the education...
Re-opening schools amidst a Lockdown – Teacher Voice, Anxiety and Social distancing
Covid-Reflections blog – Why the anxiety? Schools, Teacher Voice and Easing Lockdown With just 2 weeks to go before schools start to re-open its doors to the nation’s children,...
Why online training for schools is the way forward
Why online training for schools is the way forward It’s no secret that the time of teachers and SEND staff is precious. With good quality cover hard to find at short notice,...
SEND: The Power of Parent Partnership
SEND: The Power of Parent Partnership It’s been ten years since the Lamb Inquiry published its final report into parental confidence surrounding SEND systems.The report focused...
Great! More SEND funding (But is it really all great news?)
Great! More SEND funding (But is it really all great news?) On September 4th the Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid announced the 2019 Spending Review. In it, Javid...