The Complete Education Solution
Katrina Medley currently serves as the Executive Head at The Complete Education Solution since February 2023, following a role as Head of School at Eagle Park School from December 2021 to 2023. Previously, Katrina held the position of Head Teacher at Catch22 and was the SEND Advisory Service Manager for the London Borough of Hillingdon. Earlier experience includes serving as Head of School and Inclusion Manager at The Complete Education Solution, where responsibilities included strategic leadership, budget management, and safeguarding training. Katrina's career began as an Early Help Key Worker with Brent 2020, focused on supporting vulnerable children and families. Katrina earned a Bachelor of Applied Science in Social Work from London South Bank University from 2009 to 2012.
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The Complete Education Solution
The Complete Education Solution (TCES) is a family-owned social enterprise providing independent special education through award-winning schools and services. We work with Local Authorities across London and throughout England. TCES East London, TCES North West London and Create Learning Primary are our three day schools. TCES Create in the Community is our specialist service for complex, high needs children and young people. The most recent addition to our family of schools is TCES National Online School, currently the only online special school in the country to be independently quality assured by the Department for Education. We work with children and young adults aged 5 to 25 who unable to access education via a physical bricks and mortar setting owing to neurodiversity, emotionally based school avoidance, special needs and/or lack of appropriate school place to meet their needs. Across TCES pupils present with significant complexity and co-morbidity linked to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) including childhood trauma or secondary trauma linked to family marginalisation, loss of homes or relationships or pupil bullying and multiple exclusions. On joining us, pupils will have already — on average — experienced three permanent exclusions, been out of full-time education for up to 15 months. Independent research conducted by Goldsmith’s University found that between three and five years after leaving a TCES school or service, 90% of our students are in education, training or employment, going on to study at college and university and pursuing careers in social care, retail and theatre amongst others. Our authentic commitment to inclusion has enabled us to work with over 3,500 children and young people, and in our 25 years we have never permanently excluded a single child — and we do not fixed term exclude either.