For professional advisers
When a client family faces a school decision, the desk gives you one senior education contact: a former Head of School, working under NDA, through you or directly with the family as the client prefers.
Arrange a confidential discussionEducation decisions often sit inside a wider family move: a relocation, a change of jurisdiction, a new posting. Family offices, private-client lawyers, relocation and immigration advisers, wealth managers and concierge services introduce clients to us when a school decision needs senior educational judgement alongside the legal and financial planning already under way.
The advice comes from a named former Head of School, so every recommendation carries an author who stands behind it. The practice covers boarding, day and prep placement in the United Kingdom and Ireland, international school selection across regions, and the transitions between them.
A mutual NDA precedes any engagement, and we can work directly with the family or through you, as the client prefers.
We take no commission from any school, and no school can pay to appear in a recommendation we make. What we advise is what the evidence supports.
We advise on the education decision and report as agreed. Everything else remains with the family's existing advisory team.
One senior point of contact rather than three suppliers. A family may take one of the three and never the others.
Shortlisting, application strategy, interview preparation and direct introduction to admissions where appropriate, from a single written brief to a retained placement mandate. The engagement tiers are set out on the Parent Advisory page.
1:1 tuition through Sophyra Tutors, which runs under the same safeguarding leadership, with Level 3 DSL oversight.
Advisory on the university admissions cycle for older students, alongside Sophyra Next, our platform for students working through subject choice and university options at their own pace.
On confidentiality
This work touches on family circumstances, financial considerations, and children's academic and pastoral profiles. A mutual non-disclosure agreement is signed before any document is produced or any introduction is made.
Thirty minutes, no charge, no obligation. Bring the situation, with the family named or not, and we will tell you whether and how the desk can help.
Arrange a confidential discussion