Early Years Training and Resources

Early Years SEND Partnership

nasen is proud to be part of the DfE-funded Early Years SEND Partnership Project led by the Council for Disabled Children (CDC). The other partners are:

• Contact
• Dingley’s Promise
• National Children’s Bureau (ncb)
• Speech and Language UK

nasen previously worked with Local Authorities across the country to develop their SEND provision at a strategic level through Regional Action Learning Sets and Specialist Action Learning Sets.

The Golden Key Programme

Help inform, upskill, and empower early years staff to make a positive impact for children and young people with SEND.

This training program upskills EY practitioners to identify and provide for the needs of all children in their care. It involves identifying individual needs, fostering trust with children and their parents/carers, and daily interaction with children to gain a holistic understanding of their preferences, interests, and development needs.

This training is designed for practitioners (who are not EY SENCO’s) in Early Years PVI and maintained school settings.

Commissioning SEND Reviews for a group of EY settings

Commissioning a programme of supported SEND Reviews for all or some of your settings can help you to drive improvement for SEND. nasen structures a supported SEND Review programme which helps EY settings to:

• Understand the process of review for SEND;
• Co-conduct reviews, including peer reviews, thereby building sustainability through professional development;
• Audit current provision and identify existing strengths;
• Review provision and identify areas for development;
• Action-plan, informed by actual review

The benefits of the programme of SEND Reviews are the opportunities to identify:

• Good practice which can be shared across all settings in the group, and
• Common training needs or other areas for development which could be collectively actioned.