Academy21 is the first online alternative provision to be accredited by the DfE. We exist to support young people, their schools, and families and to provide a supportive pathway through their education and on to successful futures.
We work collaboratively with schools, trusts, and local authorities to ensure that the students placed with us receive the education they need and deserve, with tailored timetables, the right balance of subjects and SEN or additional needs catered for.
Our fully qualified, subject-specialist teachers provide 100% live lessons that are adaptive and engaging with weekly progress monitoring accessible in our custom-built, user-friendly portals. Find out more: academy21.co.uk
A great teacher changes the future every day. They can be the critical factor in a child’s success, especially for those who have had a tough start in life. At Ambition Institute, we support teachers and school leaders at every stage of their careers, helping them to keep getting better. We are a charity providing training and professional development based on the most rigorous research and evidence about what really works. Together, we’re shaping the future of education to give every child the best start in life.
What we do:
We work with teachers – from those at the start of their career to those with many years’ experience – through to headteachers and CEOs leading multiple schools, as well as early years practitioners.
Find out more: ambition.org.uk
apetito are the UK’s first and only premium, pre-prepared meal provider to schools, now providing millions of school meals a year. We offer unrivalled food quality and commercial benefits- a recipe proving very popular given current marketplace challenges.
Interested in seeing how we could help your School? Come and speak to our team at CST's Send and Inclusion Conference, or at CST's Annual Conference 2025.
Find out more: apetito.co.uk
Aurora
Aurora is the UK's trusted provider of immersive and multi-sensory spaces, delivering tailored solutions from concept to installation. Its bespoke experiences are designed to meet the diverse needs of individuals across a range of sectors, including education, healthcare, leisure, retail, hospitality and more. Aurora provides custom sensory rooms and fully immersive environments, integrating state-of-the-art technology with user-friendly design.
The Aurora Console, an exclusive tablet-based app, enables users to effortlessly control their experiences—adjusting lighting, audio, and environmental settings without the need for complex setups.
With hundreds of installations across the UK, Aurora’s solutions inspire learning, interaction and exploration in a wide variety of settings.
Find out more: www.osbornetechnologies.co.uk/auroraImmersive
Children need simple, natural environments that promote open-ended, imaginative play. Since 1947 Community Playthings, has designed and manufactured wooden furniture and play equipment, drawing on expertise from childcare professionals across the UK and internationally. Made in our workshops in the UK, the solid wood construction and robust joinery make for products that last decades. Our furniture is mobile, modular and adaptable, enabling you to change and configure your environments to suit the needs of each child and staff member. All items carry our standard 15-year warranty, and we provide free 2-week delivery anywhere in the UK.
Find out more: communityplaythings.co.uk
Crick Software is dedicated to making learning accessible for every child and enhancing literacy provision through inclusive technology. We design software that supports pupils of all abilities, ensuring everyone experiences the joy of success. Our products, Clicker and DocsPlus, cater to diverse needs across primary and secondary education, including students with dyslexia, physical disabilities and struggling readers and writers. With Clicker, pupils transition from heavily relying on staff support to confidently accessing their work independently, leading to improved outcomes. DocsPlus simplifies exam access arrangements, allowing students to showcase their true abilities independently, without needing human scribes or readers.
Find out more: cricksoft.com
Edurio is a leading provider of stakeholder feedback solutions to schools and trusts. It works with over 150 trusts as well as 2,000 schools across the UK and internationally.
Edurio has developed an advanced survey management and data visualisation platform for schools and multi-academy trusts as well as a research-based survey library. It covers topics such as staff retention, parental engagement as well as teaching and learning. The team designs surveys in partnership with academic experts and practitioners to address school management priorities and inspection requirements.
Edurio publishes research, case studies and practical guidance on evidence-driven school improvement.
Find out more: home.edurio.com
At FlashAcademy®, we are passionate about breaking down language barriers and empowering learners to thrive. Our journey has grown into a mission to support schools, colleges, employers and learners through innovative tools designed to transform English language learning. Over 2400 schools, colleges and local authorities and 700,000 learners worldwide have accelerated English language acquisition with FlashAcademy®. We are proud to be the UK’s number one EAL platform.
Find out more: flashacademy.com
IDL Literacy, IDL Numeracy and IDL Wellbeing
Our award winning software programmes have been designed to help pupils aged 7 – 13 years, who are struggling with literacy or numeracy, which could relate to dyslexia/dyscalculia/other conditions.
IDL Wellbeing helps them to identify and understand feelings, improving overall mental health and resilience. Our organisation is owned by Ascentis, the not for profit education charity and developer/provider of FE qualifications.
Find out more: idlsgroup.com
Judicium Education exists to improve the quality and affordability of robust legal advice for the education sector. With a passion for people, our unlimited support model allows for flexibility, growth, and a wealth of knowledge from experts dedicated to helping make education better. With over two decades supporting the sector, Judicium has grown to cover: employment law & HR, payroll, safeguarding, data protection, health & safety, fire risk assessments, clerking & governance and SEND support…all working symbiotically. We are leading the way in providing a wraparound support network in a simple set fee structure, ensuring schools and trusts have what they need when they need it most.
Find out more: judiciumeducation.co.uk
Renaissance has been a global leader in education technology for almost 40 years. Our growing family of assessment and practice solutions now includes GL Assessment. Our collective expertise ensures that assessment, teaching, practice and data needs are met for schools worldwide.
Our assessments offer the ideal starting point to help schools and school groups understand their students’ strengths, pinpoint areas of need and put targeted measures in place. Renaissance's teaching and learning programmes, including Accelerated Reader, myON and Freckle, then provide teachers with effective next steps, helping students build the skills they need for success and driving better student outcomes.
The story of Scanning Pens started with a friendship between Toby Sutton OBE and Jack Churchill OBE. They both shared a passion for technology that forged the foundation of Scanning Pens in 2003.
One piece of tech caught their eye early on, something close to their heart – assistive tech for reading aid. Jack is open about his dyslexia journey and understands the challenges and needs of the neurodivergent community. It was clear that giving people access to life-changing reading support was their future.
The addition of the award-winning C-Pen series has taken both Scanning Pens and dyslexia reading aids to the next level. Scanning Pens continues to help change the lives of people around the world with technology and a whole host of resources.
Find out more: scanningpens.co.uk
Created and supported by our team of speech and language therapists, Speech Link and Language Link are award-winning, online speech and language assessments, interventions, staff training and resources empowering schools in their work with speech, language and communication needs (SLCN). Our packages, available in annual subscriptions, support pupils aged 4-14 years. The robust assessments allow school staff to quickly screen all students; enabling early identification of speech, language and communication needs (SLCN). Our whole-school approach aims to ensure that no student falls under the radar, that those with severe needs are identified for discussions with specialists where appropriate and that every student reaches their full potential.
Find out more: speechandlanguage.link
Independently top-ranked as a leading UK law firm for education providers, Stone King is deeply committed to its education practice. It delivers high quality, full-service legal advice informed by national know-how but delivered locally through its network of offices in Bath, London, Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham and Cambridge.
Stone King lawyers are trusted advisors to a range of SEND providers. They understand both the challenges and opportunities faced by educational institutions providing special educational provision, and this expertise enables them to help organisations to be proactive rather than reactive in responding to key legal challenges.
Find out more: stoneking.co.uk
Sync supports schools and trusts across the UK, aiding in the adoption, deployment, and ongoing use of technology. This includes the provision of hardware and software solutions as well as training, technical support, and more. Our approach covers everything from helping schools introduce the latest devices into the classroom, guiding CPD and curriculum strategies. Meanwhile our work with Apple Financial Services and recycle scheme ensures older devices never go to waste.
Get in touch with our education team about the right solution for your institution today: Phone: 0161 605 3838 Email: education@wearesync.co.uk
Find out more: wearesync.co.uk
Making a difference everyday through staffing, tuition and supply, Teaching Personnel deliver a national service via our local branch network, working with over 6000 schools and 13,000 educators annually, and in partnership with 200 trusts. We support schools and trusts in developing a flexible workforce to improve educational outcomes, providing efficiency and value for money through our talent management services. We help schools and trusts implement their people strategies and achieve their objectives by supporting with long term and permanent recruitment, supply cover, specialist SEN support, intervention, tuition and AP, and growing your own teachers through our Future Teacher Programme.
Find out more: teachingpersonnel.com
Tes has been working with schools and teachers for over 100 years. From the first edition of Tes magazine, in 1910, we've been providing news, opinion and content, valued by the whole education sector. Our software products and services provide schools around the world with solutions for staff and student management, safeguarding, wellbeing, learning planning, timetabling, recruitment and more; many support students with special education needs and learning difficulties, helping schools meet the needs of diverse student populations.
Find out more: tes.com
Thrive has been working in partnership with educators and organisations to help young people feel safe, supported and ready to learn since 1994. With its focus on building secure relationships and providing positive experiences, the Thrive Approach has been proven to improve behaviour, attendance and learning outcomes. Thrive's training courses and award-winning assessment and action planning tool, Thrive-Online, help educators to understand the needs of their pupils, provide targeted support, and measure (then report on) the impact.
Find out more: thriveapproach.com
TLC LIVE are one of the oldest online tuition companies in the UK, providing schools with cost effective, individualised tutoring for students aged 5-16 across English, Maths, Science and Humanities. We only use QTS teachers to ensure the highest level of teacher quality. Unlike other providers, we allow schools the flexibility to fit the tuition to their needs, with no minimum booking and the ability to cancel or rearrange lessons with 24 hours notice without charge. With extensive experience of providing catch up tuition for Pupil Premium, support for students with SEND as well as LAC, school refusers and disengaged students TLC LIVE are supporting hundreds of schools across the country.
Find out more: tlclive.com
