Webinar: High standards and an inclusive curriculum - Best Practice

With almost 30 years’ experience in SEND as SENCO, AP lead and Local Authority manager, Barney has an incisive and critical take on SEND systems and practices, advocating simpler, more human responses and precise, systematic teaching. Barney trains and coaches practitioners in every sector and he is the Content Lead for FestABLE UK, the national festival of specialist learning.

Chris Pollitt is a qualified teacher and has achieved a NPQH. Before working for Ofsted, Chris gained extensive senior management experience as a headteacher, deputy headteacher, assistant headteacher and middle leader in several mainstream and special schools. His responsibilities included school improvement, self-evaluation and working with individual departments to raise the quality of teaching, learning and assessment. Chris has also been a school governor in a number of schools and a partnerships consultant for a teaching school alliance.