Believing that children do well if they can, Debbie is passionate about uncovering and helping other professionals to understand the reasons for disruptive behaviour and the right of these children to appropriate services and approaches within mainstream education. ‘There is always a reason for every behaviour, we must ask which unmet need is at work here? Then do all we can to find a solution’.
Debbie is well placed to argue that it is our moral responsibility to radically rethink how our education system views and responds to its most vulnerable and distressed pupils within our mainstream schools.

About Debbie
Debbie has, for over twenty-five-years, been involved with the education of young people whose behaviour is regarded as challenging. As well as teaching in Therapeutic Communities, Pupil Referral Units, Special Schools and within Hospital Adolescent Psychiatric provision, she has also worked as a Consultant to mainstream schools undertaking observations, making recommendations, modelling new approaches to teachers and delivering whole school staff training. Debbie has, for over twenty-five-years, been involved with the education of young people whose behaviour is regarded as challenging. As well as teaching in Therapeutic Communities, Pupil Referral Units, Special Schools and within Hospital Adolescent Psychiatric provision, she has also worked as a Consultant to mainstream schools undertaking observations, making recommendations, modelling new approaches to teachers and delivering whole school staff training. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx