Our History

as a social care company, with just one client (in order to subsidise the new business Thomas worked as a mini-cab driver at night)

to respond to Local Authority requests to provide one-to-one education packages for excluded and non-attending pupils - These services ran in tandem with Transitional Care’s Social Care packages, which provided residential services to a wide range of young people with significant complex needs

providing one to one packages of education in the community to a wide range of London and Home County Local Authorities based on a case coordination model

Services provided include:

• Assessment programmes
• Personalised Education programmes
• Re-integration progs into mainstream
• Tuition programmes
• Life and learning skills programmes

following the success of one-to-one provisions. Local Authorities including Barking & Dagenham, Hammersmith and Fulham, Brent, Richmond upon Thames, Hertfordshire and Merton commission TCES to provide alternative education group projects.

These alternative education projects initially provided emergency support under a variety of circumstances:

• When PRUs and Special Schools were shut down due to health and safety or Safeguarding issues.
• When children needed to be taken through their SATS following closure
• When Year 11’s needed to be supported on the run up to their GCSEs following closure
• When a large group of pupils were not making any progress and the LA needed a temporary alternative education placement
• When there was a significant amount of exclusions of EBD (currently SEMH) pupils for whom there was no in-County provision

These projects were set up to support groups of pupils in difficult circumstances and were ran with a full time broad and balanced curriculum, including vocational options and significant therapeutic support.

on behalf of Essex CC for 40 BESD (now SEMH) pupils in KS4

including ‘Academic / Vocational’, ‘Therapeutic’, ‘Engagement’ and ‘Enrichment’. This would later become the 5-part curriculum, in which SEMH and ASC were added as an additional differentiation

to deliver alternative education to 40 BESD (now SEMH) pupils. These services were delivered in Chelmsford and East Outdoors activity camp in Mersea

 in Copford, Essex following an increase in pupil numbers

at Anglian Ruskin University with 20 Y11 pupils graduating. This becomes an annual event across all of our schools

across its three sites and it is inspected by Ofsted later that year, receiving a ‘Good with Outstanding features’ rating

initially a class-based process

where everyone met for a day of outdoor competition and a demonstration of inclusive values

 attached to our North West London and Essex Fresh Start schools

with Professor Lord Robert Winston formally opening the school in January 2009

on behalf of the 34 Local Authorities of the Cross County Regional Arrangements Group (CCRAG) and receives an excellent report

with a new website launching at tces.org.uk

in Ilford, East London

across two sites at Ibex House, Stratford and is inspected by Ofsted in March 2010, receiving a ‘Good’ with one ‘Outstanding Standard’ (Pupil Welfare, Health and Safety) rating

 for two years while their Pupil Referral Unit (PRU) is being built

and holds its first staff party – an event to be looked forward to at the end of Autumn term

deeming four of the five measurable standards to be ‘Outstanding’

in the Varley Road (Custom House) site

Relationship Mentoring, Whole School Group Process, Pupil Support Meetings and MAPA training.

“All children in full-time group education or working towards this” becomes one of TCES Group’s company missions

at Harlow Town Football Club

and by the end of the year every TCES Group school has established their own

developed to address the needs of pupils who have tried to engage with small group learning but have not succeeded, or pupils returning from (or at risk of entering) out-of-county placements

and gains an ‘Outstanding School’ rating

and receives a ‘Good’ rating with ‘Outstanding’ standards

and is later formally opened by Professor Lord Robert Winston in December

after a significant refurbishment

following an extensive refurbishment, and is opened formally by Sir William Atkinson in December

is instilled in the schools

North West London, giving parents the ability to join in their child’s school community and make a positive change

and receives an ‘Outstanding’ rating

with the report stating “every child really does matter”

across all TCES Group schools, which then becomes and annual event

into the pre-existing church attached to the school, with the new space being used for a school hall, a sensory room and five extra classrooms

both gaining an A* in Art and Graphics

(Leadership skills, Independence skills, Financial skills and Employability/Enterprise Skills)

on an official visit to London

at Stratford Marsh, with staff moving in before the Summer term begins

with the report saying “the dedication of the staff means pupils have the best opportunities for inclusion and for success in life”

and receives a ‘Good’ rating

encouraging pupils to embrace their learning differences and praising their ‘tidal wave of talent’

launches as an annual event across all TCES Group schools and services

to give departing pupils a chance to return as peer mentors, providing support and guidance to current pupils

and receives a ‘Good’ rating

Details of an independent research project by Goldsmiths, University of London titled ‘From Social Isolation to Independence’ are shared with event attendees, including TCES Patron Dame Esther Rantzen. The report highlights that 90% of our pupils continue in further education, employment or training three to five years after graduating. CEO & Schools' Proprietor Thomas Keaney also introduced a new initiative, From Entrants to Employees and made a promise that within three academic years (July 2023) 25% of Teaching Assistants staff would be recruited from TCES ex-pupils through the Alumni Mentors programme

and receives an ‘Outstanding’ rating

in response to the growing need for a home-based learning service, in part a response to the coronavirus pandemic. Visit the webpage to find out more

to provide Nurture education to neurodiverse pupils aged 7-11.