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Bradford Specialist Teaching and Support Service Professional Development (PD) Group

  • Online
  • Yorkshire and The Humber
  • 10 Sep 2025 (14:30 - 15:30)
PD Groups

Please note: This event booking is only applicable for invited registration for schools/settings within Bradford Specialist Teaching and Support Service. If you are not part of this group, please contact us for further guidance.

Welcome to the Bradford STASS professional development group!  I’m looking forward to meeting and working with you over the next few months. The purpose of the group is to offer structure, support, guidance and encouragement for you to be able to identify and overcome challenges relating to SEND and inclusion in your role and how you support schools and settings across Bradford.

Our theme will be ‘supporting schools to work adaptively’ but the scope of this is very broad, so please don’t worry if you’re not sure at this stage what your involvement will entail; we will support you to identify a meaningful and manageable project to work on for the duration of the group.

Dates and times of sessions

  • Session 1: 10th September 2.30-3.30/4pm (online)
  • Session 2: 8th October 2.30-3.30/4pm (online)
  • Session 3: 5th November 2.30-3.30/4pm (online)
  • Session 4: 10th December 2.30-3.30/4pm (online)
  • Session 5: 21st January 2.30-3.30/4pm (online)

If you have any questions, please contact the Whole School SEND team.

By signing up you are demonstrating a commitment to attend these sessions.

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Image shows Nicole Dempsey, Deputy Regional SEND Lead for Lancashire and West Yorkshire

Meet your trainer

Nicole Dempsey

Nicole Dempsey is Trust Director for Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities and Safeguarding at Dixons Academies Trusty, a multi-academy trust with schools in Bradford, Leeds, Liverpool and Manchester.  She is also a Deputy Regional SEND Lead in the Yorkshire and The Humber region, for Whole School SEND, a consortium of organisations committed to enhancing the quality of education for learners with special educational needs and/or disabilities throughout England.  She writes about SEND and inclusion on her blog, inco14.wordpress.com, and posts on X under the username @NDempseyDTA. 

Image shows Anna Mehta, Deputy Regional SEND Lead for North

Meet your trainer

Anna Mehta

Anna joined the Whole School SEND team in 2021 and has worked supporting young people with additional needs for the last 13 years. Anna has worked in both primary and secondary settings, led specialist provisions within mainstream schools and as a SENDCo. Anna was a contributor to the Teacher Handbook: SEND, Embedding Inclusive Practice and has been the lead for the North in running the Professional Development groups. Anna is dedicated to improving the support and inclusion of all young people and their families within the education sector. She is currently SENDCo at Fulford School in York.