Helping families navigate Special Educational Needs and Disability processes with confidence.
Together, we will work diligently and confidentially to seek the appropriate support your child is entitled to.
About
25 years working with SEND, on every side of the process.
B.A. (Hons), P.G.C.E., T.M.C.M, F.R.S.A. Qualified as a family mediator in 2015.
20 years teaching
Working with pupils with SEND in schools, including middle management roles.
10 years in local authorities
Surrey, Suffolk, Lincolnshire, Richmond upon Thames and Haringey, progressing from frontline caseworker to SEND Service Manager under the Children and Families Act 2014.
Northern Ireland, 2019 to 2021
SEND Statutory Operations school advisor for the Education Authority, training headteachers and governors and authoring Annual Review Guidance for Schools.
Specialisms include complex casework with legal implications, EHCP quality assurance, tribunal preparation and attendance, and how local authority decisions actually get made. Work covers both England and Northern Ireland, so both EHCPs and NI Statements of SEN.
“With experience across all sides of the system, I offer both knowledge of the law and a practical understanding of how it works in practice.”
How I can help
Support at every stage of the EHCP process.
Whether you are just starting out or partway through a difficult process, support is available before, during and after the plan.
Before the EHCP
Initial guidance & advice
Explaining the EHCP process step by step in plain language and advising on what is needed to progress.
Application support
Helping you prepare and submit a strong, well-evidenced request for assessment.
Gathering evidence
Advising on the kind of reports and information that strengthen your case, and reviewing them.
During the EHCP
Review & feedback
Reading draft EHCPs with appendices and suggesting improvements to make them clear, specific and child-centred.
Annual review support
Preparing with you, to ensure your child's needs are properly represented.
Meeting preparation
Coaching you on what to expect, what questions to ask and how to stay confident.
Advocacy at meetings
Joining you at school or local authority meetings to make sure your voice is heard.
Mediation & dispute resolution
Using mediation skills to help resolve disagreements with the local authority in a constructive way.
After the EHCP
Transition planning
Guiding families through phased transfers, such as moving from primary to secondary or into post-16 education.
Appeals & tribunal guidance
Non-legal advice on your options if you need to challenge decisions, and help preparing your case.
Ongoing support
Being a consistent point of contact so you feel supported beyond the paperwork.
Every piece of work starts with a free, no-obligation conversation. Get in touch and I will explain how I can help and what it would cost.
Get in touchWhat families and colleagues say
In their own words.
“I have been liaising with Graeme over an EHCP and just wanted to say what a truly positive and efficient process Graeme has made this for all concerned. He has been proactive, easy to work with and has delivered a really useful document in a realistic timeframe. This is unlike many other LAs I am dealing with at present. We had the EHCP review meeting yesterday with the young person and parents, and the parents also fed back how impressed they were with Graeme's handling of the process.”
PaulSparsholt College“In addition to working with us Graeme worked with schools to help us find the right school. Throughout our consultations, we were supported. Thank you.”
ColinParent“Explained the confusing process with us and guided us through the process and what we should expect. We had to wait for months before we could access help from elsewhere. Graeme was on the ball straight away.”
AnnieParent“Graeme is very calm under pressure and knows what he is doing within SEND. He has a great sense of humour and he used that to appeal to people. It was appreciated in difficult times. Graeme has a very professional approach when dealing with parents and schools. He knows the Code of Practice very well and was able to advise me when writing letters to parents and other stakeholders.”
VicLocal Authority Service ManagerHow I work
Confidential, plain-spoken and on your side.
My role is to make sure your voice is heard, and that your child receives the support they need and deserve.
“My role is to make sure your voice is heard, and that your child receives the support they need and deserve.”
Company
Operated by Voylian Limited
Graeme Bryce SEND Consultancy is provided by Voylian Limited, a private limited company registered in Northern Ireland.
- Registered name
- Voylian Limited
- Company number
- NI742449
- Registered in
- Northern Ireland
- Registered office
- 4 Abbey Close, Greyabbey, Newtownards, Northern Ireland, BT22 2SD, United Kingdom
- Business activity
- SEND consultancy: advice, advocacy and mediation for families
- contact@voylian.com
- Telephone
- 028 4278 8898 (from outside the UK, +44 28 4278 8898)
- Website
- www.graemebryce.com
Legal
Privacy Policy
Last updated: 16 August 2026
Who we are
This website and the consultancy service it describes are operated by Voylian Limited, a private limited company registered in Northern Ireland under company number NI742449, whose registered office is at 4 Abbey Close, Greyabbey, Newtownards, Northern Ireland, BT22 2SD. Where this policy says “we”, it means Voylian Limited. You can contact us at contact@voylian.com.
This website sets no cookies, runs no analytics and contains no tracking of any kind. There is nothing here to opt out of.
What this website collects
Nothing directly. There are no forms, no sign in, no comment fields and no embedded third-party content. We do not build a profile of visitors and we do not know who you are. Like any website, the pages are delivered by a hosting provider, which processes technical information such as your IP address in order to serve the page and to protect the site from abuse. This site is hosted on Cloudflare Pages, and that processing is governed by Cloudflare’s own privacy terms. We do not receive visitor-level reports from it.
If you email or call us
Email sent to an address at this domain is forwarded to a mailbox we control, so that we can read and reply to it. We keep that correspondence only for as long as it is needed to deal with your enquiry and for our own records. We do not add you to a mailing list and we do not pass your details to anyone else for marketing.
If you become a client
Consultancy work of this kind involves sensitive information: your child's name, needs and diagnoses, school and local authority correspondence, and copies of documents such as draft EHCPs. That goes beyond what a website privacy policy normally covers, so it is set out separately here.
- Information is collected directly from you, and from documents you choose to share, in order to provide the advice, review or advocacy you have asked for.
- It is used only for that purpose, and is treated as confidential. It is not sold, and it is not shared with a school, local authority or any other party without your knowledge, except where the law requires disclosure, such as a safeguarding concern.
- Where a second opinion or outside guidance is sought from another professional, this is done without identifying your child by name wherever that is possible.
- Records are kept only for as long as needed to provide the service and to meet our own legal and professional obligations, and are then deleted or securely destroyed.
- You can ask, at any time, what information is held about you or your child, ask for it to be corrected, or ask for it to be deleted once there is no ongoing reason to keep it.
Your rights
Data protection law gives you rights over personal data held about you, including the right to see it, correct it and ask for it to be erased. Write to contact@voylian.com and we will deal with the request.
If you are not satisfied with how we have handled a data protection matter, you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office at ico.org.uk.
Changes to this policy
If what this website or service collects ever changes, for example by adding a contact form, this policy will be updated before that change goes live.
Contact
Questions about this policy can be sent to contact@voylian.com.
Legal
Terms and Conditions
Last updated: 16 August 2026
My commitment to you
Your information is treated as confidential and handled in line with the Privacy Policy above. Advice is given honestly and in good faith, drawing on direct experience of how the process works from both sides. There is no guarantee of a particular outcome from a local authority or tribunal, because that decision is never mine to make. What I can promise is that the case will be prepared and presented as well as it can be.
Your commitment to me
Fees are agreed with you in writing before any chargeable work begins, and invoices are payable within 10 days. If a booked meeting or session is cancelled with less than 48 hours' notice, it may still be charged at the agreed rate, because that time has usually been set aside and cannot be filled at short notice. You agree to supply accurate documentation and to let me know promptly if your circumstances or the local authority's position changes.
Your information
Confidentiality is treated as a professional obligation, not just a policy statement. Information is retained only for as long as needed to support your case and our own records, and is not shared beyond what the Privacy Policy describes.
Communication
Every new enquiry starts with a free, no-obligation conversation, so that you know what is involved and what it would cost before committing to anything. After that, we agree together how best to stay in touch: email, phone or video call, whichever suits the work in hand.
Complaints and disputes
If anything about the service falls short, please raise it directly at contact@voylian.com first, so it can be put right. These terms are governed by the law of Northern Ireland, and any dispute that cannot be resolved directly is subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of Northern Ireland.
Third-party support
Where it helps your case to seek a second opinion or guidance from another professional, this is done without identifying your child by name wherever that is possible.
Get in touch
Every enquiry starts with a free, no-obligation conversation. Tell me a little about your situation and I will explain how I can help.
contact@voylian.comor call 028 4278 8898