Beyond Creative Education
An inclusion service committed to helping young people find their way back to loving learning
For children and young people with SEND or medical issues, attending school consistently can be a daily struggle and has become a national crisis.
BCE is here to help children, their families and educators to make things better and create the places children want to be and know that they belong.
Our Provision
Beyond Creative Education Limited is committed to helping children and young people with SEND, EBSNA (Emotionally Based School Non Attendance), health issues, recovering from health treatment, emotional or mental health issues, anxiety, low mood or low self esteem, to find their way back to loving learning.
Creativity, Courage, Curiosity and Care
All of our work for children and young people is ruled by our core values:
Creativity, courage, curiosity and care.
We strive to make a valuable contribution to improving inclusion, belonging and learning experiences.
By listening carefully to learners, working in partnership with them, their families, schools and agencies, we ensure that opportunity and the ability to return to education or a suitable alternative becomes possible.
Why BCE is Here
For children and young people with SEND or medical issues, attending school consistently can be a daily struggle. BCE has been created to help children, families and education with what is considered a national crisis.
“A crisis that needs to be tackled.”
“The number of children missing school in England is a crisis that needs to be tackled with bigger, bolder national measures. The proportion of pupils who have been missing a significant amount of their education is about double the levels seen before the pandemic. Figures for the 2022-23 academic year show 22.3% of pupils were “persistently absent”, which is defined as missing 10% or more of their lessons. In years before the pandemic, the rate was between 10 and 12%. In the last academic year it was 17.2% in primary schools and 28.3% in secondary schools. A new report by the Commons Education Select Committee warns mental-health problems and cost-of-living pressures on families are among the complex reasons. ”
“There is an increasing number of children in the UK who have fallen through gaps in the education system.”
“Despite the demonstrable importance of school for children’s development, there is an increasing number of children in the UK who have fallen through gaps in the education system and struggle to attend school regularly. The latest figures show that more than 125,000 children were missing more school days than they attended for the first term of this academic year. This is double the number before the pandemic (RCGP UK Council, personal communication, 2023).”