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Latest Resources
SENCO toolkit
- General
- 03 Jul 2024
An interactive toolkit for SENDCos and Senior Leaders to navigate resources and guidance for developing effective SEND provision across a school.
Co-production toolkit
- General
- 03 Jul 2024
An interactive toolkit for parents or staff external to school to navigate resources and guidance for multiple areas of SEND provision to support learners.
Teacher toolkit
- General
- 03 Jul 2024
An interactive toolkit for teachers to navigate resources and guidance for multiple areas of SEND provision to support effective inclusion.
Support staff toolkit
- General
- 03 Jul 2024
An interactive toolkit for support staff to navigate resources and guidance for multiple areas of SEND provision to support effective inclusion.
Webinar: Positively responding to increasing complexity in our mainstream schools – collaborative learning opportunities to inform strategic and systemic thinking
- Webcasts
- 02 Jul 2024
This webinar explores the current context around pressures on mainstream schools due to the shortage of special school placement and how schools can collaboratively and positively respond as system leaders.
Webinar: Their future in our hands – Navigating school to career transitions: A webinar for Primary, Secondary and College Educators Part 2
- Webcasts
- 03 Apr 2024
This webinar will follow on from webinar one and will offer solutions and share good practice to staff on how they overcome the difficulties they have when supporting young people in their employment journey.
Webinar: Their future in our hands – Navigating school to career transitions: A webinar for Primary, Secondary and College Educators Part 1
- Webcasts
- 21 Mar 2024
This webinar will introduce the topic of employment is everyone’s business and how staff across all schools play a pivotal part in a person’s employment journey, from sowing the seed at a young age that employment is for everyone
Positive beginnings: Supporting children with SEND at the start of their school journey
- Webcasts
- 16 Feb 2024
This webinar will explore support for children entering mainstream school. The session will cover early identification of need, processes for positive support and inclusive strategies to ensure that needs are met as children prepare for transition.
Teacher Handbook: SEND
- General
- 22 Jan 2024
The approach we have taken to writing this handbook reflects the approach that is needed to embed inclusive practice across schools - a shared vision and true collaboration, underpinned by professional challenge and respect for everyone’s strengths
How to ensure balance between the role of SENCO and personal wellbeing.
- Webcasts
- 09 Nov 2023
Enhancing SENCO wellbeing by managing workload and leading through influence. Delivered by Jean Gross, Rebecca Gonyora and Erica Wolstenholme
nasen and WSS member newsletter September 2023
- General
- 28 Sep 2023
Welcome to your September update, full of SEND CPD opportunities to help support your ambitions for an inclusive learning environment.
Meeting increasing Social Emotional, Mental Health (SEMH) needs within mainstream settings
- Webcasts
- 12 Jul 2023
In this webinar we will explore the increase in SEMH needs and how we can meet the challenge of assessing needs and providing targeted support within school.
Webinar - SEND and Alternative Provision Improvement Plan: What do schools and colleges need to know?
- Webcasts
- 04 May 2023
This webinar will provide an overview of the Department for Education’s Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and Alternative Provision (AP) Improvement plan which was published at the beginning of March.
Talking Head - Professional Development Groups Tim James Director of Inclusion
- Webcasts
- 04 Apr 2023
A Director of Inclusion talks about the benefit to their learning in addition to improved outcomes in their school of being a member of the professional groups.
Talking Head - Teacher Handbook Zoe Nash SENCO
- Webcasts
- 04 Apr 2023
A SENCO talks about the benefits to her school of using the Teacher Handbook.
Live online networking sessions supporting resources
- General
- 27 Mar 2023
A bank of resources to support the Online networking sessions for Unit 1 -3
Webinar - SEND - Legacy of Leadership
- Webcasts
- 16 Mar 2023
In the final session in this series of three, we reflect on SEND at a strategic and executive level, in our sense-making and decision-making.
Webinar: Reflective SEND Practice
- Webcasts
- 16 Mar 2023
In the final session in this series of six, we explore how to be a reflective classroom teacher for SEND.
Webinar: How to develop a curriculum which is ambitious and accessible for all at each age and stage
- Webcasts
- 06 Mar 2023
This webinar recording explores why it is important for all children to have access to an ambitious curriculum and how schools and colleges can ensure that their curriculum is ambitious and accessible.
Ensuring equal access to public examinations for candidates with sensory impairments - NatSIP
- General
- 13 Feb 2023
The implications of sensory impairment are well known to teachers of children and young people who are deaf, and/or have vision impairment (VI) and/or a multi-sensory impairment (MSI).