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.
Latest Resources
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).
Webinar: Distributed Leadership of SEND
- Webcasts
- 31 Jan 2023
In the second session in this series of three, we explore deeper the vital role that consistent sense-making and decision-making plays in setting children and young people up for life outside and beyond school.
Webinar: Teaching Children with Social, Emotional and Mental Health Needs
- Webcasts
- 31 Jan 2023
In the fifth session in this series of six, we explores strategies that can be implemented in the classroom to support children who consistently present with disruptive or withdrawn behaviour.
Webinar: Inclusive Classroom Language
- Webcasts
- 19 Dec 2022
In this fourth session of the series, participants explore strategies that can be implemented in the classroom to support children with speech, language and communication needs.
Webinar - SEND: Foundations in Leadership
- Webcasts
- 02 Dec 2022
Aimed at school leaders doing NPQs in our region, this first session of three webinars reflects on sense-making and decision-making as it relates to learners with SEND, either providing or limiting access and opportunities for learning.
Evelyn's Deaf Awareness Film - NatSIP
- General
- 01 Dec 2022
Evelyn is 9 years old and tells us about herself and her friends at Riddings Junior School in Derbyshire.
Webinar: Principles of Assessment and Metacognition
- Webcasts
- 21 Nov 2022
This session explores how to accurately assess and narrate the steps of progress that learners with SEND make within whole class teaching.
Webinar: Teaching children with Cognition and Learning needs
- Webcasts
- 07 Nov 2022
This session explores strategies that can be implemented in the classroom to support children who have difficulties processing and retaining new information.
Webinar: Adapting teaching for learners with SEND
- Webcasts
- 04 Oct 2022
This session for Early Career Teachers, explores strategies that can be implemented in the classroom to support children and young people with SEND using the graduated approach (Assess, Plan, Do, Review).
Webinar: Ensuring accurate identification of SEN in school and college settings
- Webcasts
- 23 Sep 2022
This webinar recording supports you in developing effective systems and processes to enable the early and accurate identification of SEN in your setting.
Webinar: Is Ofsted a force for improving the education for all learners with SEND?
- Webcasts
- 29 Jun 2022
Malcolm Reeve shares practical tools and templates to help schools reflect on SEND as they prepare for an Ofsted inspection.
Ten Top Tips for Sports Coaches: Working with Children and Young People with ADHD
- General
- 10 Jun 2022
Youth Sports Trust and the ADHD Foundation explore some ideas to help make your club or team an inclusive place for children and young people with ADHD.
The Inclusive Classroom: High Quality Teaching in every setting
- General
- 01 Jun 2022
A programme to develop quality first teaching and inclusive practice to benefit pupils with SEND in reading.
Talking Head - Professional Development Groups Erica Biddle SENCO
- Webcasts
- 01 Jun 2022
A SENCO talks about the benefit to her learning in addition to improved outcomes in her school of being a member of the professional groups.
Talking Head - Professional Development Groups Vicky Newman Headteacher
- Webcasts
- 01 Jun 2022
A headteacher talks about the benefits to her school of participating in the professional development group.
Access to SEND CPD and Expertise Research
- General
- 24 May 2022
This research explores the experiences of the school workforce in relation to their access to, and experience of SEND CPD.