George Angus Consulting is proud to launch its Neurodiversity-Supportive Standard (NSS): a project in development since late 2024, which grew out of our research Appreciating and Supporting Neurodiversity for ConCOVE, FFCoVE, and Skills Group.
Neurodiversity is a broad and contested field, with many competing definitions. Around the world, national organisations offer neurodiversity training or focus on a single condition, but there is very little that defines what makes an education or work setting genuinely neuro-inclusive, or that maps settings against a consistent standard. The NSS fills that gap by showing a setting where it currently sits and giving it a way forward on what else it needs to do. For learners and workers, it sends a clear signal: a setting carrying the NSS will appreciate, support, and recognise them.
We speak deliberately of neuro-inclusion rather than neurodiversity, because everyone is different. What supports neurodivergent people tends to support everyone. Rather than singling out individuals, settings that focus on becoming inclusive to all find that everyone benefits.
George Angus Consulting (GAC) owns the standard, drawing on the original research and on further work carried out between late 2024 and mid-2026. GAC is not a training organisation, and the NSS is not a training product. With more than a decade in quality assurance, our role is to assess an education or work setting, report on what we find, and — where the setting meets the standard — award NSS recognition at the appropriate level. We don’t compete with training providers; we recognise good practice, and we keep researching so the NSS stays rigorous and relevant.
The NSS is built to be flexible enough to apply in any education or work setting, in any country. A consistent, globally recognised standard is an essential step toward genuine societal change and a more neuro-inclusive world.
The NSS was launched at the Paris Conference on Education 2026 on the 17th June 2026. We are now welcoming partners around the world to pilot the standard ahead of a wider rollout. If you’d like to take part in the pilot and the research behind it, please contact Founder Stuart Martin at Stuart@GeorgeAngusConsulting.com
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