Welcome to ACE Education Training

For parents and carers - ACE provides independent advice and information on state education in England.  For professionals - ACE offers a range of high quality training services covering education law and guidance.

Partners have decided that ACE will close this year and our last day of trading will be 31st March 2024. 

We would like to thank all of our customers, past and present, for their loyalty and support - a significant amount of our business has always come from a core of regular and repeat customers.

Since 2012, ACE Education has been continuing some of the work of the Advisory Centre for Education (our predecessor, a charity set up in 1960 that had to close in 2012). For more than 50 years, the charity worked hard to achieve a fair education system for all - you can read about the history here.  ACE Education, on a much smaller scale, also worked towards achieving this same objective.  We know that many of our customers are also committed to this through their work and the services they provide.  We are proud of the work we have delivered through our training and consultancy services since becoming ACE Education.

We would also like to thank all the parents, carers and support workers that have used our telephone advice service, our advice booklets and the ACE Step-by-Step Manuals.  We always valued this direct contact with parents and their shared firsthand experiences of understanding and navigating the education system have always informed our work and our training.  We know that ACE Education has advised and supported many families over the years and we are privileged and pleased to have been able to help them in this way.     

We also want to say a special thank you to the volunteers that have supported us in delivering our advice service – they have been expert, professional, hardworking and committed and we couldn’t have done it without them.  Our telephone advice service will close on Tuesday 26th March 2024.  

 Secondary school place offers 1st March 2024 - If your child has not been  offered their preferred school please see this page for some advice on what steps you can take