“The Pivot Academy will enable schools to identify an appropriate alternative education pathway for students. We will do this through high quality assessment, identification of need and with a focus on outcomes. We want to be a provider who works with schools and LAs to identify the most appropriate and relevant pathways for young people and we will aim do this proactively rather than in reaction to or as a consequence of negative behaviour. Collaboration with all stakeholders is key.

Through our many combined years of experience working in the public, private, educational and social care sectors, we are confident that the Pivot Academy will have the desired impact not only on the outcomes for individual students, but also a significantly positive impact on local and regional data with regard to pathways, exclusions, attendance and mental health support for students. In working in this collaborative way, we will in turn reduce spend and case load for public sector services.

The Academy has been designed to engage young people in activities that challenge their ideas of traditional learning. High levels of challenge and support will endeavour to ensure that students become responsible for their own choices and ultimately their behaviours will improve and academic success will be achieved.

Here at Pivot our vision and passion to grow as a company and provider is stronger than ever and this is clearly evidenced by our recent inspection outcomes. We remain committed to putting young people at the centre of everything we do and as a result we have achieved phenomenal results with schools, local authorities and most importantly, young people. We pride ourselves on our ability to think outside the box and take comfort in challenging the norms and developing a creative response to need in our specialist areas of special educational needs, pastoral, inclusion and alternative educational services and support. We work with students who display challenging behaviour in certain situations. It is our job to enable them to take responsibility for themselves and to be able to contribute successfully to society and we are looking for professionals who have the drive and ambition to support this.

We have recently been graded as ‘Good’ in all areas in both our Kirklees and Leeds schools