Lucy lives her values as a foster carer and strong advocate for access to education for all.
Lucy Wawrzyniak
With over 22 years combined experience as a special school head teacher, head of the virtual school for looked after children and Head of English in mainstream secondary schools, Lucy is a master of teaching and qualified SENDCo.
A qualified coach and tutor on Masters courses at the Institute of Education, London for over 18 years, with extensive safeguarding knowledge and experience, Lucy offers inclusion consultancy, coaching mentoring, supervision and leadership development, as well as support to develop a strong safeguarding culture, particularly specialising in SEND.
Lucy is a Member of the Association of Executive Coaches and holds a Level 1 accreditation – Association for Coaching; European mentoring and coaching council and International Coaching.
Her leadership development experience is further enhanced by a year long Visiting Practitioner Fellowship at the Rees Centre, Oxford University resulting in the Designated Teacher for Looked After Children Handbook, training and webinars sharing evidence-based practice and a quality mark for schools recognising excellent practice with vulnerable learners.
Lucy’s extensive safeguarding knowledge in the specialist sector is informed by over 15 years working with learners with complex needs and adverse childhood experiences. She has trained Designated Safeguarding Leads for 9 years, co-written training materials for SEND safeguarding courses and been a member of the Oxfordshire Safeguarding Children Board and sub groups for over 9 years.