Kerrigen Marriner
Head of Behaviour & Attendance Support, London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Kerrigen graduated as a History and English teacher but was quickly drawn into special needs work as she found the 1:1 connection with the pupils so rewarding.
As Head of Behaviour and Attendance Support for the London Borough Of Tower Hamlets, Kerrigen splits her time between working with pupils in school and doing more strategic work in the local authority, always seeking to ensure schools can be more inclusive.
Tower Hamlets has developed a Fair Access Protocol that guarantees pupils an opportunity to return to mainstream successfully, and has a 93% success rate of returning pupils to mainstream.