EFWS exists for one reason, and one reason only: every child deserves the support they need to thrive, no matter how complex their challenges.
We provide a community-based education service for children, young people and their families.
What makes us different? We don’t just tutor. We transform.
About Us
We provide community-based education tutoring and holistic support for children, young people, and families navigating complex needs within the education system.
Our strength-based, co-production approach recognizes that domestic abuse, poverty, adverse childhood experiences, racism, and trauma profoundly impact development and wellbeing.
We work alongside families to break negative cycles and create pathways to empowerment and belonging.
Our Approach
Through a student-centred therapeutic model that draws upon coaching and choice, reflective practice, co-production and positive affirmation.
An integrated approach to re-engaging young people with learning and their community through authentic dialogue and enhancing knowledge, skills, and understanding.
Through exposure to greater choice, enhanced self-regulation, understanding of themselves, and their experience. We celebrate empowerment.
What Can We Help With?
We work in a multi-disciplinary way and are committed to innovative, evidence-based research and practice from the growing field of trauma informed attachment, neuroscience and social justice models. We have specialist safeguarding and contextual safeguarding senior strategic level expertise and experience.
Our service is set up to support children, young people and families with a range of multi interacting difficulties and disadvantages including:
Referral Assessment & Delivery Model
Referral
We formulate a service level agreement alongside the Local Authority. Reviewing the paperwork, drawing out the strengths and barriers to learning for the student and family in an initial pen portrait.
Assessment
We will have a home visit with the family and the student contact, which informs our planning meeting to design the Therapeutic Individual Education Plan (TIEP). We monitor daily the wellbeing, progress, and engagement of the student alongside opportunities for joining group learning programmes.
Reporting
We provide the student with daily feedback, student reviews of their TIEP and group learning. Whilst also having review meetings with the parents/carers looking at the students engagement, and progress reports against their baseline assessments. We consistently review the TIEP and set new objectives based off this, and regularly report back to SEND commissioners.
Family Empowerment & Student Leadership Activities
We implement co-production initiatives, student leadership programmes, career advice, advocacy support, and opportunities for family therapy.
Who Are We?
Meet the team behind EFWS
Prior to setting up EFWS, Michael founded three recruitment businesses that currently have over 300 children's mental health clinicians working nationally. At 15, growing up in Dagenham, Essex, Michael was forced to leave school before completing his GCSEs due to his own mental health challenges. Michael is now passionate about helping young people to have better access to mental health and education support.
Lianne is an experienced education professional with 17 years’ experience spanning mainstream secondary education, hospital education, and specialist SEN settings. She began her career in mainstream secondary schools, developing strong practice in curriculum delivery, behaviour management, and inclusive teaching for diverse learners. She has extensive leadership experience within SEN and specialist schools, working with pupils with ASD, ADHD, SEMH, PDA, trauma-related needs, and other complex presentations.
Hollie is a people first operations and support leader with over 3+ years of experience transforming service teams, solving complex challenges, and creating meaningful customer experiences. She brings on a mix of strategic thinking and hands on energy to every challenge. She is passionate about the details, but never loses sight of the bigger picture, creating student journeys that feel human, efficient, and genuinely helpful. She is known for leading with empathy, building strong relationships, and turning insights into action.
Meggi has 10+ years in senior management of the mental health sector with a passionate commitment to improving quality, ensuring the evolving best practice and compliance, readily shares good practice and drives solid governance adherence. She has a steadfast commitment to quality care and striving for excellence in mental health, confident in track record of implementing and effecting change. She is focused on positive impacts in mental health services, contributing to the well-being of students.
Megan has an extensive background in Psychology and education, with previous experience working in SEN teaching and mainstream settings, she is passionate about supporting young people access education. After leaving teaching, Megan transitioned into Marketing. Focusing on purpose-driven work and using her psychology background to inform strategy.
Jenna is passionate about all things HR and the People Profession. She is a Chartered Member of the CIPD with a Postgraduate Degree in Senior People (HR) Professionals and holds a Level 7 CIPD qualification with Distinction. A commercially astute, strategic and pragmatic HR professional with 14 years’ experience of working in both the private and public sectors, including start-ups and large corporate organisations, building the HR function from the ground up. With proven experience of successfully working alongside senior stakeholders, aligning HR strategy with the business goals cultivating a culture of driving high performance and growth through effective talent management, organisational design and driving engagement.