People & practice...

The Right School Co was founded by Natalie Converso - with a background in law, nearly two decade of legal and business consultancy experience in regulated, fiduciary environments and close to a decade on senior leadership teams of UK independent schools. That seat is the vantage point from which a school's strategic direction is set, its internal health read and its regulatory standing tested - the position from which the gap between the school's reputation and its reality becomes visible.

School advisory in the UK is a largely unregulated market and very little of it is built on the disciplines a family would expect from people who advise them on getting anything else of consequence, their lawyer, their accountant, their financial advisor - The Right School Co was founded to fill that gap - independent, conflict free and grounded in regulatory rigour alongside a working understanding of how schools actually run from the inside. Natalie came to the practice having lived the decision that every family faces. Every family since has confirmed what she suspected then:

that the need is legitimate, that good answers are rarer than they should be and that meeting the end merits the discipline brought to it.

What drives our work?

The world that your children are entering - educationally speaking - is one in significant transition. Understanding the forces currently shaping the system is not background noise - it is directly relevant to the decisions you are making today. At the same time, this period of change also brings new possibilities, more diverse school models, richer pathways and a greater focus on the individual.

With the right guidance you can turn this complexity into an opportunity to shape an education that truly fits the person that your child is becoming.

What guides us

The Right School Co provides families with candid, informed advice that is rarely available outside schools themselves. We take on a limited number of clients each year and every engagement is handled personally. The legal rigour that is applied directly to the realities of education is what allows the practice to identify which schools are genuinely right for a particular child and not merely what it appears to be.

Our Approach

The legal training is not incidental- it shapes how we read inspection frameworks, interrogate safeguarding and SEND provision, evaluate governance and examine paperwork on a family's behalf. It informs questions worth asking the Head, bursar or registrar and delves deeper that the answers in prospectuses give.

How we can support you

There are more than 150 independent schools across Greater London. Weighing them against the best state options- alongside transport, post-school pathways and any particular learning need - is not always realistic for two working parents to manage alone. We take that on and return to you what families need most: time, clarity and a safe pair of hands to bring the right information to the table and arrive at the best decision on the basis of it.

Why families choose us?

...the perspective behind the advice and the absence of competing commercial interests. We are led by legal training and senior experience in school inspection, HR and compliance - a regulatory lens rarely brought to family-facing advisory work - where the dominant credentials remain teaching and school-leadership. We are a purely advisory practice - no tutoring, no exam coaching, no revenue sharing referrals and no commissions taken from any school. We are paid solely by the families we represent. Our client list is deliberately limited and geographically tight so that every engagement receives the depth of attention this decision warrants - financial, emotional, cultural and where warranted, specific to a learning need. Support is shaped to the family rather than to a service tier - extensive or light touch - as needed. The principle is simple:

under commit, over deliver.

Please reach us at info@findtherightschool.co.uk if you cannot find an answer to your question.

What does 'led by legal training' mean?

Our training informs how regulation, governance, safeguarding , documentation and contractual matters are tried and tested on the family's behalf - its not offered as legal advice and is not a substitute for independent legal counsel where that is required. The discipline shapes the work.

Why is it worth the cost when I can do the research myself?

Information about schools is widely available. Judgement about schools is not.

League tables, prospectuses, open days and the views of other parents tell a family what each school says about itself - they do not reveal how the school decides to admit, how its leadership is regarded by inspectors, what it's safeguarding record discloses on close reading and how a particular child's profile will be read by a registrar.

Open days are marketing exercises for that school. They are not designed to show you anything else.

Our work also takes time which most working parents do not have. What the family is paying for is not information. It is an independent perspective, regulation literacy, candid assessment.

It is the plain translation of educational vocabulary that families are not immersed in daily - GCSE options, IB or A level, subject combinations and the long term consequences of each - into terms that allow a real choice to be made. It is the disciplined conduct of a process which could reveal that a certain school experience may not be what a family perhaps originally thought it would be.

Do you meet our child(ren) or only us?

At 4+ and 7+, your child's voice is read through you and where helpful, through brief observation. At 11+ and above - where a child is forming their own preferences and is increasingly participant in the decision - we will often meet with them, sometimes briefly and informally, sometimes through structured conversation. By 13+ and 16+, your child's own view is one of the most significant inputs to the work and is treated as such. The decision rests with you as parents; our role it to make sure the child you know is the child we are matching to a school.

Do you cover state or independent schools?

Both, where it is warranted. A good state school that fits the family's brief - academically, geographically, culturally - is treated with the same footing as an independent option. The work is shaped by what is right for the child(ren) not by sector.