The training, consultancy and coaching your school and it's leaders actually need.
Grounded in 25 years of SEN school leadership. Built around your context. Delivered with sincerity, curiosity and joy.
Good Gift Coaching & Education Services works with schools, trusts and education leaders across the North West and beyond. Delivering practical training that changes school culture, specialist inclusion consultancy, and coaching that helps leaders thrive in role as the leaders they truly are.
The Government's recently published Every Child Achieving and Thriving white paper places inclusion, belonging and staff development at the heart of what every school must now deliver. Good Gift has been doing exactly this work for over 25 years.
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Many schools find us through our Cultivate CPD offer. They come back for Consult. Their leaders stay for Coach."
This is how Good Gift works. Not a menu of disconnected services, but a connected journey from first training day to long-term partnership.
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How we work with schools and leaders
Whether you're a headteacher looking to build staff capability, a SENCO navigating new statutory requirements, or someone aspiring to senior leadership and ready to invest in getting there, you're in the right place.
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CULTIVATE
Practical, accredited training that changes how your school feels for everyone in it.
Bespoke CPD delivered in your school . Grounded in neuroscience, shaped by real SEN leadership experience, and designed around what your staff actually need.
[Find out more about Cultivate]
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CONSULT
Helping schools build genuinely inclusive cultures, not just compliant ones.
Specialist SEND and inclusion expertise for schools navigating new statutory requirements. From someone who has built inclusive schools from the inside.
[Find out more about Consult]
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COACH
Supporting school leaders to thrive in role, as the leaders they truly are.
One-to-one coaching and supervision for new, aspiring and serving school leaders. Specialist expertise supporting leaders who have had to mask, code-switch or shrink to fit.
[Find out more about Coach]
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More than 25 years of doing this work.
The policy landscape is changing. Good Gift is ready.
I'm Maureen Brettell, Director of Good Gift Coaching & Education Services.
I spent more than 25 years leading SEN schools. Building inclusive cultures, developing staff, and supporting the most vulnerable children. I'm not an outside consultant who has read about inclusion. I've lived it, led it, and built teams around it.
I am the person I needed to see when I was a child but didn't have. That's what drives everything Good Gift does.
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Every Child Achieving and Thriving, the updated SEND Code of Practice and the new Ofsted framework are placing inclusion, belonging, staff development and leader wellbeing at the centre of what schools must now deliver.
Good Gift's Cultivate, Consult and Coach offer is directly aligned with these demands and is built from 25 years of experience that pre-dates the legislation by decades.
Read our latest blog to see what the changes mean for your school →