Portsmouth LA Professional Development (PD) Group

Please note: This event booking is only applicable for invited registration for schools/settings in Portsmouth LA. If you are not part of this group, please contact us for further guidance.

For professionals ready to work on a school improvement project over time.

Professional Development (PD) Groups are facilitated, cohort-based groups where professionals work on a defined school improvement project over time.

These are not webinars or one-off CPD sessions. Participation involves active engagement across a series of sessions, with work taking place in your setting between sessions.

Participants are expected to commit to attending all sessions and to work on their improvement project between sessions.

This is a PD Group for Senior Leaders focussing on Every Leader a Leader of SEND. Throughout the process, participants will work alongside facilitators to share expertise around the leadership of SEND within their setting. The programme will develop the confidence and expertise of Senior Leaders to develop high quality distributed leadership of SEND within their schools to secure best possible outcomes for learners with SEND. 

The sessions will examine the following topics:

• Inclusive Leadership Within the National Context
• Distributed Leadership alongside a Graduated Approach 
• High Quality Inclusive Teaching and Learning: Transformational Planning
   

The group will conclude by considering together all the strands from the first three workshops and consider how we can use all the strands covered to build sustainable change, alongside the School and SEND Development Plans. We will look at quality assurance, and self-evaluation and peer review tools to support this.

Please note: This PD Group is delivered as a series of sessions and requires commitment to attending all sessions.

Portsmouth Professional Development (PD) Group

• Session 1: Thursday 10 September 2026, 1:30–3:30pm 
• Session 2: Tuesday 17 September 2026, 1:30–3:30pm
• Session 3: Thursday 15 October 2026, 1:30–3:30pm

Format: Online

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

Terms & Conditions

By registering for this group, you agree that your name and email address will be shared with the external delivery partner supporting this programme (e.g. X Local Authority / X Trust). This is so they can contact you about sessions and support engagement. Communications may come from Whole School SEND and the external partner.