Amanda Goldthorpe-Hall, MBA, CMgr FCMI

Amanda Goldthorpe-Hall works where SEND strategy meets operational reality. As School Business Leader at Philip Southcote School, a multi-site SEND school in Surrey, she has helped resource, redevelop and realign specialist provision across mainstream secondary school sites, seeing first-hand what makes truly inclusive education and institutional collaboration work ' and what gets in the way. Her postgraduate research explored SEND satellite provision in mainstream schools, focusing on the practical systems, relationships and decisions that underpin successful inclusion. Amanda is a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute, a member of the National Network of Specialist Schools Advisory Board and a TES contributor. Her focus is simple: how can mainstream settings better accommodate children with SEN, and how can all stakeholders work together to move inclusion from ambition to execution