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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

Female teacher reading to a group of primary school children

Webinar: Whole Class Reading - Access for All

  • Webcasts
  • 18 Mar 2021
Free
mainstream
,
english
literacy
WSS past event

This webinar will introduce participants to principles and practical strategies that can be used by teachers to ensure that English lessons improve oracy, develop vocabulary and improve reading outcomes for all learners.

group of students in a STEM lesson with teacher - secondary age

Webinar: Empowering Staff to Provide SEN Support: The Role of Leaders

  • Webcasts
  • 11 Mar 2021
Free
secondary
,
WSS past event

This webinar aims to support secondary SENCOs and all other leaders to empower teaching staff to effectively meet the needs of pupils at SEND Support.

group of people standing in a boardroom

Webinar: The graduated approach at the heart of distributed leadership for SEND

  • Webcasts
  • 10 Mar 2021
Free
WSS past event

A webinar looking at distributed leadership, aimed at SENCOs, Headteachers and Senior Leaders, Governors and CEOs.

image_of_teacher_helping_secondary_pupil

Webinar: Understanding the difference between SEND and Disadvantage in schools

  • Webcasts
  • 09 Mar 2021
Free
WSS past event

A thought-provoking session based on evidence and experience which challenges the understanding of SEND and Disadvantage in schools.

I CAN - helps children communicate

Involving families in provision for students with DLD – SENCos

  • Webcasts
  • 09 Mar 2021
Free
DLD
mainstream
,
WSS past event

This is an intermediate level webinar aimed at SENCOs in primary and secondary mainstream settings to help improve provision for students with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD).

I CAN - helps children communicate

Building effective practice to support students with DLD - Primary Teachers

  • Webcasts
  • 04 Mar 2021
Free
DLD
mainstream
,
primary
WSS past event

This is an intermediate level webinar aimed at teachers in primary mainstream settings to help improve provision for students with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD).

I CAN - helps children communicate

Building effective practice to support students with DLD - Secondary Teachers

  • Webcasts
  • 02 Mar 2021
Free
DLD
mainstream
,
secondary
,
WSS past event

This is an intermediate level webinar aimed at teachers in secondary mainstream settings to help improve provision for students with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD).

Group of people listening to man on stage

Webinar: Inclusive Curriculum through the Ofsted Lens

  • Webcasts
  • 02 Mar 2021
Free
ofsted
WSS past event

In this recorded online conference, speakers including Professor Barry Carpenter, WSS National SEND Leader Malcolm Reeve and a representative from Ofsted explore how school leaders can implement an inclusive curriculum for all learners.

children playing tug-of-war with rope

Webinar: PE, Inclusive Sport and Wellbeing

  • Webcasts
  • 24 Feb 2021
Free
PE
sport
WSS past event

This webinar focuses on how to ensure your PE and school sport offer is Inspiring, Accessible and Meaningful for all your pupils during and post the national lockdown period.

male teacher with children around table in class

Webinar: High-Quality Teaching - Targeting Areas of Need

  • Webcasts
  • 23 Feb 2021
Free
HQT
QFT
mainstream
,
WSS past event

This two-part webinar series will focus on how high-quality teaching, also known as quality-first teaching (QFT), can be targeted at identified areas of need.

Male teacher writing on a white board in front of primary school children

Webinar: Inclusive Maths - Bridging the gap between abstract and concrete

  • Webcasts
  • 18 Feb 2021
Free
maths
WSS past event

This webinar focuses on recently updated KS1 and KS2 Maths guidance and introduces principles and practical strategies that can be used by teachers to ensure Maths lessons improve outcomes for all learners.

Paperwork with charts and graphs on a table with a laptop

Webinar: Using data sources to inform best practice

  • Webcasts
  • 11 Feb 2021
Free
data
WSS past event

Too often data collection is excessive, unreliable, confusing which gives staff less time with children; when used well data can have a profound and positive impact in SEND departments.

DFN Project SEARCH

Webinar: Securing Good Transitions

  • Webcasts
  • 04 Feb 2021
Free
WSS past event
PfA
Image shows two healthcare practitioners at work

Securing Good Transitions: A resource pack to support the next steps of Key Stage 4 pupils with SEND

  • General
  • 03 Feb 2021
Free
PfA
PfAEY
Two children with SEND playing a board game in school

Webinar: Inclusion in Action

  • Webcasts
  • 29 Jan 2021
Free
WSS past event

The second session in our series on 'Every Teacher a Teacher of SEND, Every Leader a Leader of SEND'.

image shows a young child being home schooled over a laptop device

Webinar: Remote learning for students with SEND

  • Webcasts
  • 27 Jan 2021
Free
Covid-19
remote learning
WSS past event
,

This session will explore government guidance, expectations and the challenges we face in planning and delivering high-quality remote education for learners with SEND in both mainstream and specialist settings.

Leading Learning for Special Education Needs and Disability, Community interest Company

Webinar: Being a Research-Engaged SENCO - Secondary Focus

  • Webcasts
  • 21 Jan 2021
Free
WSS past event

This is the fourth in a series of five webinars aiming to provide additional support to new-in-post SENCOs.

Key worker with a young boy that has Downs Syndrome

Webinar: SEND Policy in Practice

  • Webcasts
  • 14 Jan 2021
Free
WSS past event

The first session in our series looking at 'Every Teacher a Teacher of SEND, Every Leader a Leader of SEND'.

Questions to support young people with SEND and families in conversation with schools

Ask, Listen, Do: Understanding SEN Support

  • General
  • 12 Jan 2021
Free

Questions to support young people with SEND and families in conversation with schools

A slide from the presentation reading 'When a flower doesn’t bloom you fix the environment in which it grows not the flower’

A suite of resources to support successful returns to school for adopted children

  • General
  • 17 Dec 2020
Free

A suite of resources to support successful returns to school for adopted children