Ben Palmer

I help organisations:

• Navigate complex SEND strategy, commissioning, and compliance
   
• Deliver impactful training and system-level consultancy
   
• Embed equity, transparency, and participation into public services
   
• Design with — not for — neurodivergent children, young people, and families
   

I’m also a keynote speaker, public trainer, and advocate with a focus on:

• Disability rights
   
• Lived experience integration
   
• Ethical transformation of provision across health, education, and care

• Diagnosed as autistic and ADHD in adulthood, with a lifetime of navigating unmet needs
   
• A parent carer to two neurodivergent sons, both navigating their own complex diagnoses
   
• Experienced across Ofsted-registered provision, commissioning, and national advisory work
   
• Known for honest communication, strategic foresight, and radical empathy
   

I bring pattern recognition, policy fluency, and truth-telling to spaces that too often lack all three.

• Consulting on strategic SEND redesign post-COVID
   
• Supporting national charities and forums in elevating expert-by-experience voices
   
• Delivering training on neurodiversity, inclusive systems, and co-production
   
• Championing Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) understanding in both parent and professional spaces

SEND Strategy • Neurodivergence • Public Sector Leadership • Co-Production • Disability Rights Advocacy • Systems Design