Welcome

PAG is a multi-disciplinary professional services firm with a specialism in consultancy and related areas. Our clients want to navigate complex environments, solve difficult problems, and maximise the good they can do in the world – and we are here to help. Our services range from external reviews of governance and capacity mapping to bid writing and funding applications, and cover the education, health, and justice sectors. Our dedicated staff and directors are drawn from a range of backgrounds including education consultancy, public policy, academia, central government, and frontline teaching and learning.

To see what our clients think, please see below, alternatively to find information on a specific service, please select from the drop-down menus at the top of the page.

What we do

Pre-Opening Project Management

Our experience with project management and academy conversions help guide new Free Schools and academies through the pre-opening phase.

Childcare Sufficiency Assessment

Market leaders in the delivery of full CSAs, we assess childcare markets and consult with providers and parents to help local authorities of all sizes understand and secure childcare sufficiency.

Governance Review

Our External Review of Governance service ensures MATs can expand their family of schools, in addition to effectively managing their existing ones.

SEND Sufficiency Review

PAG can advise senior MAT leaders on how to ensure that the needs of children and young people with SEND can be best met across the MAT.

Bidding for Funding

PAG is extremely successful in producing funding bids through a variety of Department for Education, third sector, and other grant-giving programmes.

Business Support

PAG supports local authorities, individual childcare providers, and other settings with business modelling and sustainability support.

Capacity Mapping

PAG can help you to analyse your staffing capacity in order to address key resourcing issues to enable your organisation to meet its strategic priorities.

What our clients say

Create: Schools

Create: Schools was established by PAG in 2022 to act as the Department for Education’s (DfE) sole delivery partner for the free school applicant support service. By providing expert independent advice and guidance to proposer groups, Create: Schools will support the creation of new mainstream, special, and alternative provision (AP) free schools in areas where they are most needed across the country.

The services provided by Create: Schools are delivered by a team of expert advisors, who work intensively with proposers during live free school waves to develop competitive, high-quality applications in line with the DfE’s criteria and application guidance.
To find out more, or to get in touch, please visit www.createschools.co.uk

Create: Schools continues to work with maintained schools, trusts, and LAs to leverage it's vast experience within the sector to improve outcomes and standards. From support with engagement, stakeholders, relationship formation, and much more, Create: Schools is here to support you.