About
Hello, I’m Georgia
Founder of InclusionFirst Education
I’m passionate about creating educational environments where every child feels they belong, feels valued and is able to thrive. Inclusion isn’t just my career — it’s something I genuinely believe has the power to change lives.
I started out teaching in Coventry city centre. It was an incredibly hard place to work and I saw a great many children being overlooked and falling through the cracks. I decided very early in my career that this should never happen to a child — and that I wanted to be one of the people making sure it didn’t. Everything I have done since comes back to that.
From there I moved into a SENCo role and gained the Postgraduate National Award for SEND Co-ordination — a job I spent five years doing and loved.
When it was time to move from my home in Leamington Spa to Bath I became an Inclusion Lead, using my National Professional Qualification for Senior Leadership. In practice that means leading on everything that means a learner needs something different: SEND, children who are looked after, child protection, English as an additional language and pupil premium. I also lead on all the nurture and therapeutic support and line manage the whole support staff team.
Ten years in primary and SEND education have left me with a particular love of nurture-based practice — the belief that a child has to feel safe and settled before anything else we do will stick.
I set up InclusionFirst Education because I wanted the autonomy to do this job the way I believe it should be done: more creatively, and reaching far more families than any one school allows. Several hundred families later, I am still most interested in the same question — what actually changes for the child?
Being a step outside the system is part of what makes that work. In a meeting about your child you are the one holding everything; I can be the steady, clear-headed voice beside you, because I am not the one carrying it home afterwards.
Outside of work you will find me outdoors, preferably by the sea, paddleboarding or hiking with my husband, son and dog — and then drinking a very good cup of coffee alongside a very large pastry.
Qualifications
- BEd (Hons) Primary Education
- Qualified Teacher Status
- National Award for SEND Co-ordination
- National Professional Qualification for Senior Leadership
- Thrive Practitioner (primary years)
Assurance
- Enhanced DBS certificate
- Up-to-date safeguarding training
- Professional indemnity insurance (£1,000,000)
- Public liability insurance (£5,000,000)
- Member of the NASUWT
- InclusionFirst Education Ltd, registered in England and Wales
Certificates and documentation are available on request and are shared as standard when we begin work with a school or local authority.
How I work
Four things you can hold me to
Plain English, always
If I use an acronym I will explain it the first time. Nobody should need a glossary to understand a decision about their own child — though there is one here if you want it.
I will tell you if you do not need me
Some situations need a solicitor, some need SENDIASS or IPSEA and some need one firmly worded email you can write yourself. I would rather say so than take the work.
Everything ends up in writing
A meeting nobody recorded is a meeting that did not happen. You get a written record, an action list or a report — every time.
The child, not the paperwork
Compliance matters because it protects children, not the other way round. If a process is being followed perfectly and a child is still not in school, it is not working.
Georgia is, quite simply, an exceptional Inclusion Lead and SENCo. Her knowledge of the EHCP process, including navigating the complexities of securing appropriate funding, is second to none.
Georgia is, hands down, the best SENCo I have ever worked with. She is hands on, supportive and kind.
Have a conversation with me
Fifteen minutes, free and you will speak to me rather than anybody else.