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Our CEO Thomas Keaney's Blog. For other updates, please visit our News page.

November 2024

  • 25/11/24

    From Isolation to Independence: Transforming Excluded SEND Pupils into Young Leaders

    At TCES, we have a guiding mission: to take children and young people who have been marginalised and excluded by traditional educational settings and empower them to become confident, capable young leaders.   For over 25 years, we’ve worked with thousands of neurodiverse pupils, m...
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  • 20/11/24

    Reflecting on a quarter-century of Education at TCES and empowering pupils through Project-Based Learning

    As we mark TCES’s 25th anniversary and take part in the Department for Education’s call for evidence in a new Curriculum and Assessment review, there has never been a more important time to reflect as we plan forward to create a 21st century curriculum that all children and young people...
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  • 07/11/24

    Re-Imagining Education: How Our ‘No Exclusion’ Policy Changes Lives

    “When that threat of exclusion is removed you create space for the trust, attachment and sense of identity that these young people need, to open up and make significant progress educationally, emotionally and socially” - Goldsmiths UoL TCES research project - 2019. At TCES, we operate...
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  • 05/11/24

    The Origins of ‘The Complete Education Solution’ (TCES): A reflection on 25 Years of transforming lives through zero-exclusions ​​​​​​​

    Thomas Keaney founded TCES in his words, ‘by happy accident’. Following some time working in New York as a social worker, he had returned to London, taking up a role supporting one young person with significant learning challenges. This was a temporary position because Thomas was determi...
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November 2024