Whole School SEND is a consortium of charities, schools and organisations. We are committed to helping children and young people with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) or learning differences reach their full potential.
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Discover the latest upcoming CPD webinars and live online discussion sessions delivered by Whole School SEND. We offer CPD on a wide range of topics, hosted by our regional lead teams and a range of guest speakers from the world of education. All our CPD is fully funded by the Department for Education and free to attend.
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DfE funded resources, support and CPDL opportunities available to schools and further education settings to support us in our mission to improve preparation for adulthood from the earliest years all the way through education, in a seamless, joined up way.
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The Whole School SEND consortium regularly publishes resources to support you with all aspects of SEND. These include our SEND Review Guides and Frameworks, leaflets for parents, practical resources to support your work in educational settings, resources for specific contexts such as CPDL webinar recordings and more.
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For Neurodiversity Week, Dr James Galpin, Education Officer at nasen, reflects on the importance of celebrating diversity in SEND.
Liz Maudslay from the Association of Colleges provides insight into some of the important differences between school and college provision for students with SEND.
On International Women’s Day, Kamal Bodhanker, Head of International Development at nasen, reflects on how COVID-19 is threatening girls’ education globally.
Claire Cookson - CEO, DFN Foundation
Roger Firman and Susan Day of UKAAF give some insight into accessibility for school-professionals regarding blind and partially sighted students in education.
Written by Fran Morgan from Square Peg.
The third blog in a series written by Katie Hickin
Whole School SEND's Online SEND Reviewer Training, powered by Real Training
The second in a series of three blogs written by Katie Hickin
Written by Karen Wespieser, COO of Parent Ping and Teacher Tapp.
The first in a series of three blogs written by Katie Hickin
Written by Karen Wespieser, educational researcher and COO of Teacher Tapp and Parent Ping.
Written by Katie Hickin
Thoughts on Curriculum - for pupils and students with profound and multiple learning difficulties (PMLD), severe learning difficulties (SLD) and/or SLD/ASC Peter Imray
Written by Julie Pointer – National Development Team for Inclusion and Simon Lawrence ASDAN.
Written by the Anti-Bullying Alliance
Written by Julie Pointer, Children and young people lead, National Development Team for Inclusion
Written by Alison Ley
Dr Emily Bennett, Consultant Clinical Psychologist & Dr Gemma Costello, Educational Psychologist National ABI in Learning in Education Forum (N-ABLES)
Learning from evaluating a programme for parents of two-year-old children at risk of SLCN.