Your SEND CPD Passport

A first class CPD journey will help you move towards deeper knowledge, improved skills and increased confidence.

Teacher Handbook: SEND

A reference book designed to improve the educational experience of children and young people by helping education practitioners put inclusion at the heart of their practice.

National Disability Sport Organisation SEND toolkit

This toolkit has been designed to provide an introduction to inclusion in the School Games, highlighting key statistics surrounding each SEND and signposting to opportunities to upskill your knowledge in inclusive practice for young people

Teachers toolkit

An interactive toolkit for teachers to navigate resources and guidance for multiple areas of SEND provision to support effective inclusion.

Teaching Assistants & Learning Support staff toolkit

An interactive toolkit for support staff to navigate resources and guidance for multiple areas of SEND provision to support effective inclusion.

Leadership and SENCO toolkit

An interactive toolkit for SENDCos and Senior Leaders to navigate resources and guidance for developing effective SEND provision across a school.

Co-production and Partnership toolkit

An interactive toolkit for parents or staff external to school to navigate resources and guidance for multiple areas of SEND provision to support learners.

Webinar: Positively responding to increasing complexity in our mainstream schools – collaborative learning opportunities to inform strategic and systemic thinking

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

Webinar: Their future in our hands – Navigating school to career transitions: A webinar for Primary, Secondary and College Educators Part 1

Positive beginnings: Supporting children with SEND at the start of their school journey

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.

How to ensure balance between the role of SENCO and personal wellbeing.

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

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

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?

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

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

A SENCO talks about the benefits to her school of using the Teacher Handbook.

Live online networking sessions supporting resources

A bank of resources to support the Online networking sessions for Unit 1 -3

Webinar - SEND - Legacy of Leadership

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.