Service Level Agreement (SLA)
Strategic Educational Consultancy
1. Parties and Term
This legally binding Agreement is made and entered into by and between:
Elevated Futures Education, hereinafter referred to as the Client, and
Anthony Peltier, practicing under the professional pseudonym Lane Anthony, hereinafter referred to as the Contractor.
Commencement and Duration
This Agreement shall formally commence on 9 February 2026 and shall remain in full force and effect for a fixed period of twenty-four months, concluding on 9 February 2028, hereinafter referred to as the SLA Term.
Consultancy Commitment
The Contractor is engaged to deliver strategic educational consultancy for exactly two days each week throughout the entirety of the twenty-four month SLA Term.
Termination
Either party may terminate this Agreement by providing exactly 30 days written notice to the other party, ensuring that any ongoing statutory obligations or student support provisions are safely transitioned.
2. Pro Bono Fee Contribution
2.1 The Contractor agrees to provide a pro bono fee contribution to the Client equivalent to £16,500 (sixteen thousand five hundred pounds). This amount represents the full value of consultancy services delivered between 14 November 2025 and 6 February 2026, calculated on the basis of three days per week at a daily rate of £550, excluding the standard two‑week Christmas education break.
2.2 The Parties agree that this pro bono contribution is offered on the express condition that the Client enters into a twenty‑four month Service Level Agreement, commencing 9 February 2026 and concluding 9 February 2028.
2.3 The pro bono contribution described in Clause 2.1 shall be deemed to form part of the Contractor’s overall commitment to the Client for the duration of the SLA Term. No payment, reimbursement, or financial consideration shall be due to the Contractor in respect of this contribution.
2.4 For the avoidance of doubt, the pro bono contribution relates solely to the consultancy period 14 November 2025 to 6 February 2026. All consultancy services delivered during the SLA Term (9 February 2026 to 9 February 2028) shall be governed by the terms, scope, and service expectations set out in this Agreement.
2.5 Nothing in this clause shall create an employment relationship. The Contractor remains an independent contractor providing professional services under the terms of this SLA.
3. The Core Philosophy and Literary Foundation
The strategic consultancy provided by the Contractor under this Agreement is rooted in a fundamental shift from the traditional medical model of disability to a neuro-affirming framework of awakening, change, and embrace. This educational and clinical philosophy is derived from the published research and literature of Lane Anthony, which serve as the definitive pedagogical and clinical compass for the Client:
- Autism a Superpower – An Awakening: Shifting the institutional narrative from deficit-based disorder to natural neurological difference, focusing on an awakening where the educational environment is proactively adapted to the unique processing style of the child.
- The Dynamic Development Plan (DDP): The primary operational engine of the setting, replacing deficit-driven individual education plans with a strengths-based blueprint for holistic pupil support in UK schools.
- The Dynamic Insight Screener: Moving beyond static psychological labels to capture functional, real-time insights into the sensory, cognitive, and communicative profile of the learner.
- Awakening the Workforce: Developing a systemic training framework to ensure every staff member becomes a qualified DDP Architect, capable of maintaining a low-arousal, high-expectation learning environment.
- Dysregulation: Navigating an Altered State: The definitive clinical cornerstone for identifying, de-escalating, and managing neurological or sensory overwhelm. This work explicitly defines dysregulation not as a behavioural choice or a compliance failure, but as an altered state of being that strictly demands co-regulation, environmental adjustment, and sensory safety instead of standard behavioral drills or disciplinary consequences.
4. Detailed Scope of Strategic Support
4.1 Philosophical Integration: The DDP Ecosystem
The Contractor is responsible for the systemic embedding of the Dynamic Development Plan (DDP) into the institutional culture of Elevated Minds Education:
- The Proprietary Kernel: Translating the theoretical concepts of the DDP and Dysregulation literature into daily operational language, visual scaffolding, and actionable strategies for classroom staff, students, and parents.
- Staff Mentorship and Executive Coaching: Conducting intensive, deep-dive mentoring sessions to ensure the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) can identify the early somatic and environmental markers of an altered state, applying the Surgical Edit Protocol (SEP) to the physical space before crisis occurs.
4.2 Independent School Standards (Ofsted/ISI Readiness)
The Contractor shall structurally align the provision to meet the regulatory requirements of the Education (Independent School Standards) Regulations 2014, facilitating the path toward formal school registration:
- Part 1: Quality of Education: Designing and drafting a comprehensive Curriculum Policy that explicitly links the DDP framework to academic progress, demonstrating how the unique learning needs of students with Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs) are met through individualized adaptation.
- Part 2: Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural (SMSC) Development: Architecting a specialized personal development pathway that respects, validates, and nurtures neurodivergent identity, self-advocacy, and emotional autonomy.
- Part 6: Provision of Information: Ensuring that all statutory declarations, prospectuses, and policy formulations prepared for the Department for Education (DfE) and Ofsted accurately translate the specialized neuro-affirming methodology into robust, compliant academic frameworks.
4.3 Post-16 Provision and Vocational Architecture
A targeted focus on the strategic transition into post-16 education, independent living, and career pathways, ensuring that all learners are prepared for life beyond the setting:
- Schemes of Work (SoW): Building a structured 39-week academic and vocational calendar, incorporating tailored GCSE Recovery pathways alongside specialized Level 2 Environmental Literacy modules.
- Lesson Planning: Engineering low-arousal lesson templates that utilize conceptual anchors to bypass executive functioning barriers, allowing students to access complex subject matter without cognitive overwhelm.
- Assessment and Tracking Procedures: Implementing the tracking protocols of Neurolearn, which capture and validate student progress through alternative mediums, such as multi-modal portfolios, digital presentations, and student-led Vlogs, thereby reducing performance anxiety.
- Higher Education Liaison: Cultivating strategic partnerships with higher education institutions, including London South Bank University (LSBU), to secure facility access, enrichment opportunities, and advanced transitional support, including the drafting of specialized risk assessments and access agreements.
4.4 Statutory Advocacy and Financial Strategy
- High Needs Funding (HNF) Requests: Formulating, pricing, and drafting granular support provision plans that reflect the true resource cost of 1:1 specialist support, community coaching, and the clinical interventions required by the DDP, securing the necessary financial allocations from local authority panels.
- EHCP Annual Reviews: Representing the educational and clinical positioning of the school during statutory reviews, ensuring that local authority documentation shifts away from deficit-based descriptions and aligns with strengths-based progress.
5. Financial Terms and Invoicing
Daily Rate: The agreed professional consultancy rate for the strategic support outlined above during the SLA Term is £500 per day.
Inclusions: This flat daily rate is fully inclusive of all strategic educational support, onsite leadership coaching, independent school policy production, academic document creation, and external multi-agency liaison delivered during the two days per week commitment.
Billing Cycle: Itemized invoices shall be submitted monthly in arrears, reflecting the exact number of consultancy days completed during the preceding calendar month, payable within 14 days of receipt.
6. Intellectual Property and Non-Destructive Editing
IP Ownership: All Dynamic Development Plan (DDP) frameworks, clinical manuals, Dynamic Insight Screener methodologies, Neurolearn training protocols, and specific literature authored by Lane Anthony remain the sole and exclusive intellectual property of the Contractor. The Client is granted a non-transferable, non-exclusive license to utilize these proprietary materials for operational delivery strictly for the duration of this Agreement.
The Surgical Edit Protocol (SEP) Directive: When modifying, updating, or adapting any school files, academic papers, or policy publications produced under this consultancy, both the Client and the Contractor must strictly adhere to the Neurolearn Surgical Edit Protocol (SEP). This protocol mandates 100% text and structural integrity of the core material. No unauthorized deletions, reductionist summarisations, or structural refactoring may take place without explicit mutual written consent, ensuring the preservation of the author’s academic and clinical voice.
Signed for and on behalf of Elevated Futures Education (Client):
Doreen Sinclair McCollin, Principal
Date: ____________________
Signed for and on behalf of the Consultant (Contractor):
Anthony Peltier, Lead Consultant (Practicing as Lane Anthony)
Date: ____________________
7. Glossary of Key Terms
Altered State of Being: A state of physiological and neurological dysregulation where a neurodivergent individual experiences sensory or emotional overload, requiring co-regulation and environmental adaptation rather than behavioral discipline.
Awakening: The phase within the Lane Anthony framework where educators and caregivers recognize environmental barriers and shift from a deficit-based model to an environment that adapts to the individual’s sensory and processing needs.
Change: The operational application of strengths-based strategies and curriculum design that allows a learner to develop skills, confidence, and autonomy without forcing masking or compliance.
Embrace: The final phase of the framework, representing full systemic acceptance, neuro-affirming validation, and the complete integration of a learner’s authentic identity within the educational community and wider society.
Conceptual Anchors: High-level learning focal points used in lesson planning to anchor complex academic ideas to a student’s highly focused personal interests, bypassing executive function barriers.
DDP Architect: A trained educator or school leader who has successfully completed the Neurolearn training and is qualified to systemically embed and maintain the Dynamic Development Plan framework within an educational setting.
Dynamic Development Plan (DDP): A proprietary, strengths-based educational blueprint developed by Lane Anthony that maps out a student’s functional strengths, sensory requirements, and regulation strategies to optimize school support.
Dynamic Insight Screener: A real-time, functional diagnostic tool used to assess a learner’s fluctuating sensory, communication, and processing profile, moving away from static medical labels.
Low-Arousal Environment: A deliberately managed educational space designed to reduce predictable sensory triggers, unexpected stressors, and high-intensity staff presentations, thereby preventing neurological overload.
Neuro-affirming Practice: An educational and clinical approach that respects neurodivergent variations as natural forms of human diversity, focusing on environmental modification and validation rather than trying to fix or change the individual.
Surgical Edit Protocol (SEP): A mandatory non-destructive editing protocol that ensures the preservation, integrity, and complete delivery of text during amendments, strictly prohibiting unauthorized summaries or omissions.