TCES Create Learning

TCES - The Complete Education Service - is a social enterprise providing specialist education to vulnerable pupils with complex needs from in and around London. Our therapeutic approach nurtures and supports pupils to find their talents and skills and give them the best opportunities for positive social, emotional and academic outcomes. We never exclude pupils, we never give up on them. We have schools and services in East, West and South London and a peripatetic Home Learning service supporting students who are often marginalised and fall through the education net.

Create Learning Secondary is a service that served as an alternative to residential settings. It is for neurodiverse pupils aged 11-19, with complex needs and trauma, with an Education Health and Care plan (EHCP) funded by their local authority.

This service works with pupils with the most complex and challenging needs from in and around London, offering an alternative to residential settings. We use a therapeutic education model and high staff ratios for high-risk pupils to build positive social, emotional and educational development for those who may have had difficulty progressing in schools in the past.

We have a skilled and experienced clinical team supporting therapy needs for every pupil from a universal programme to individualised sessions. This includes Speech and Language Therapy, Occupational Therapists, and psychotherapies such as Art, Drama therapy, and clinical psychology.

Our social workers support a holistic approach to ensuring parents/carers have an understanding and strategies to continue support for their children at home.

The Create Learning Approach

Create Learning provides an intensive therapeutic model which supports young people with significant challenges including social, emotional, mental health (SEMH) autism, and associated conditions that can impact their ability to access education, including refusal to attend and exclusions. Traditional learning approaches have not worked for them to date - our service takes a holistic approach to providing solutions.

Pupils receive a differentiated curriculum to meet their individual needs. We provide a rigorous weekly training programme across the staff team to ensure everyone is trained to meet a more complex pupil group.

Parent feedback

"I mean they're brilliant... I don't know who I would be if I wasn't at that school... They played a massive part... they helped me find myself." – Pupil.

"This school has helped me and my son so much - endless support and positive vibes no matter how big or small my dilemma or question." – Parent.

Outcomes

Understanding and removing the barriers to a pupil's learning and ability to achieve their potential brings many benefits.

The benefits of TCES Create Learning include:

• Improved attendance and reduced absence

• Empowered pupils, making links between thinking, feeling and behaviour to develop positive coping strategies

• Effective strategies to support positive relationships

• Development of leadership and life skills

• Academic and vocational successes

• Improved social skills, independence and mental wellbeing

• Step down opportunities to less intensive settings

TCES Promise

We do not exclude pupils. We never give up!

Make a referral

• Visit: www.tces.org.uk

• Email: referrals@tces.org.uk

• Call: 020 8543 7878