helping the education community find a place for every child by promoting the best in alternative education

Our vision

To establish Inaura as a centre for innovation in alternative education

To promote our strategy for community-based inclusion for children of all ages

To share our relational skills approach developed at our pioneering special school with the wider community

To develop a community internetwork to encourage more safe, high quality alternative education including small and very small alternative schools

Inaura is ten years old this year - what did we do with the last ten years?

Why do we need more alternative education?

Why do we promote community-based inclusion? 

Why do we prefer managed moves to permanent exclusion?

The national charity promoting inclusive approaches

Our relational approach focuses on relationships not behaviour.  It is a comprehensive approach based on proven research in the UK, Europe, New Zealand,Canada and the USA. It also has a track record of success with children for whom everything else failed.  Inaura has researched and promoted the use of managed moves and a community level model for inclusion, now being promoted by the Department for Education.

What do we offer? 

• We research and promote best practice and strategic approaches in education
• We provide training at our centre near the City of Wells, Somerset
• Children attend our independent special school in Somerset on  a voluntary basis.

The school team

At Inaura, working together means accepting each other and the children we work with as equals. Staff have a unique mix of experience, skills and understanding. We value the relationships we share and our co-operative approach, which has held the team together as we have grown. We try to find a way to win without defeating people...