Impactful Professional Development

“This will transform our approach to safeguarding students. Highly recommended!“

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“Incredible training session that will enhance the understanding of my team and most definitely inform our work with our students. Thank you”

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“Research-based and highly informative“

James

PRU HeadTeacher

“Steve’s Beyond The Gate model provides valuable insight for professionals working within education, and the youth justice, health and social care sectors. His unique perspective combines his educational leadership background with evidence-based approaches and practices gained from years of working alongside those with direct lived experiences of exploitation and violence.

Steve is authentic, and extremely knowledgeable and provides practitioners with an excellent foundation in developing contextual best practice to safeguard children and young people vulnerable to exploitation, and affected by violence.” 

“I worked with Steve as a key stakeholder in our reduction of knife crime and county lines project. What started life as a knife crime / county lines initiative became so much more than that – identifying vulnerable children across the spectrum of risk.

As a result we were able to upgrade teachers’ recognition of concerning / risky behaviours so that bespoke interventions could be designed and implemented.

There is no doubt in my mind at all that this project delivered significant reductions in risky behaviour and changed the future lives of many children.

The project was ultimately expanded and refined across Hertfordshire as the very successful Lives not Knives programme – which is still delivering today – 6 years later.”

Chief Inspector Roy Stammers (Retired)

Hertfordshire Constabulary

“Incredible training sessions that enhanced our understanding and response strategies. Impressed!“

Sarah Johnson

Education Consultant

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“Steve put across the message clearly and very effectively. I have rarely had so much positive feedback to a speaker. Staff were totally engaged and could speak of little else for the rest of the day”

Emma

Deputy Headteacher – Pastoral Care

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“That was absolutely spot on. So much of that resonated with me and my childhood”

“Thank you for the excellent presentation for staff. The information you provided gave a very clear context for our staff to hear about the community in which we work.

This was delivered with a very appropriate focus on community issues and how they impact our work, ensuring that the correct messages were given about a particulary sensitive and challenging subject.”

“Youth violence and Gang Culture is not a topic that we have spent much time considering in the past, but having heard you speak on this topic several months ago, I was very aware that this is not something we should shy away from; it is real and it is really happening even if we, as a school, have not seen much evidence of it yet”