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Resources and Publications

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.

As a member of nasen and the Whole School SEND Member Community, you have free access to all of our resources – scroll through, use the filters or search for a specific resource. 

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Latest Resources

S4W5

Skills4Worcestershire Passport to Hospitality - Unit 1: Induction

  • General
  • 08 Feb 2022
Free
SPA

This project will take the students on a tour around the Hospitality industry, learning about not only what services are classed as hospitality and its history but what careers and entry level roles around available within the sector.

S4W5

Skills4Worcestershire Passport to Hospitality - Unit 1: Introduction

  • General
  • 08 Feb 2022
Free
SPA

This project will take the students on a tour around the Hospitality industry, learning about not only what services are classed as hospitality and its history but what careers and entry level roles around available within the sector.

S4W5

Skills4Worcestershire Passport to Hospitality - Unit 1: Housekeeping Element 3

  • General
  • 08 Feb 2022
Free
SPA

This project will take the students on a tour around the Hospitality industry, learning about not only what services are classed as hospitality and its history but what careers and entry level roles around available within the sector.

S4W5

Skills4Worcestershire Passport to Hospitality - Unit 1: Housekeeping Element 2

  • General
  • 08 Feb 2022
Free
SPA

This project will take the students on a tour around the Hospitality industry, learning about not only what services are classed as hospitality and its history but what careers and entry level roles around available within the sector.

Inspiring Worcestershire Logo 2

Worcestershire County Council Employment Resource Pack

  • General
  • 08 Feb 2022
Free
SPA

Developed in conjunction with local SEND schools by Inspiring Worcestershire, this comprehensive resource pack contains activities and supporting documents to inspire learners with SEND towards future employment.

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Webinar: Leading CPD for Inclusive SEND Provision

  • Webcasts
  • 04 Feb 2022
Free
WSS past event

Funded by the Department for Education, this series of three webinars explores evidence-informed, effective strategies that SENCOs and school leaders can use to build a culture of professional growth.

classroom reading

Webinar: Sharing Good Practice: Partnership Between Specialist and Mainstream Settings

  • Webcasts
  • 26 Jan 2022
Free
WSS past event

This three-part series explores how partnerships between Specialist and Mainstream settings can be developed and used to benefit both and support all students with SEND.

students studying

Webinar: Beyond the School Gates: Exploring Opportunity and Aspiration into FE and Beyond

  • Webcasts
  • 20 Jan 2022
Free
WSS past event
PfA
teacher in library

Webinar: SEND in Mainstream for Early Career Teachers and Beyond

  • Webcasts
  • 14 Jan 2022
Free
WSS past event

This three-part webinar series supports teachers to develop their ability to effectively meet the needs of all SEND learners in your classroom, using the 5 Key Recommendations from the EEF’s SEN Support in Mainstream Schools Guidance Report.

CTHandbook Cover

Webinar: Introduction to the Teacher Handbook: SEND

  • Webcasts
  • 06 Jan 2022
Free
WSS past event

In this webinar, lead authors Katherine Walsh and Amelie Thompson take participants through Whole School SEND's latest resource, the Teacher Handbook: SEND.

Thought bubble with lightbulb

Diagnosis is not enough: Research that shapes inclusive teaching

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Adaptive Teaching
,
Diagnosis
Research
Working Memory

Why we should reconsider our strategies beyond a child’s diagnosis and plan our support based on their actual relative strengths and challenges.

Thought bubble with lightbulb

Children born pre-term

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Wider Resources
,
Pre-term
PRISM

Meet Becky. She is 12 years old, born at 23 weeks gestation. She finds it difficult to concentrate, make friends, cope with multiple demands and she struggles with low self esteem.

Complex Scenario Maire

Complex Scenario Maire

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Complex Scenarios

Enabling Maire to engage in individual and social learning in English and across the curriculum.

Noticing front slide

Noticing

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Permeating Themes
Classroom

What is noticing and why is it important?

Self Assessment of needs screenshot

Self-assessment of needs and reasonable adjustment plan

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Wider Resources
,
Planning
Self-assessment
Strategy

This plan is owned by you. It should enable you to share your strategies for managing your learning needs with those around you, but it is your decision to share it and cannot be shared by others without your express permission.

Access to Teaching

Access to Teaching

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Permeating Themes
Teacher Development
teaching

An important session to support trainees to better understand their own learning needs, known and previously unknown, as well as advice on seeking support to teach whilst appropriately managing a disability.

I Spy

I Spy

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Wider Resources
,
mental health
SEMH

Ways of meeting children’s social, emotional and mental health needs.

Complex Scenario Rashid

Complex Scenario Rashid

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Complex Scenarios

Sustaining engagement and challenge for Rashid.

Teacher Identity front slide

Teacher identity and inclusion

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Permeating Themes
Identity
Inclusion

Identity narratives for inclusion.

Introduction A permeated approach slide 1

Introduction: A permeated approach

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Adaptive expertise
,
Adaptive Teaching
,

This slide deck can be used by ITT Providers with their teams of ITE Tutors and school mentors to show how adopting a permeated curriculum approach to teaching about special educational needs as part of ITT is needed.