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The Department for Education released the latest figures on recruitment to initial teacher training (ITT) and on the whole figures are down on last year.

The government are wanting the views of professionals in shaping the proposed Advanced British Standard (ABS), a new Baccalaureate-style qualification framework for 16-19 year olds.

Inclusion 2024 Live is an interactive online week of free to access Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Inclusion webinars from the Youth Sport Trust.

This training, delivered by our EYSEND Partner CDC, will support practitioners to understand sensory processing differences and create sensory environments conducive to learning

This training, delivered by our EYSEND Partner Council for Disabled Children (CDC), goes into depth on early years practitioners' duties in accordance with the Equality Act.

The Department for Education has announced the expansion of the Attendance Hubs programme, with 18 new hubs being added.

Dr Becky Baxter is Director of Education and Speech and Language Therapy at Down Syndrome UK. With almost 20 years of experience working with schools and families, Becky has successfully supported hundreds of children with Down syndrome of all ages across a range of education settings. Becky is committed to promoting evidence-informed practice and works with researchers to develop research priorities and projects to improve the speech, language, communication and education of individuals with Down syndrome.

The Mentally Healthy Schools programme, delivered by Anna Freud, has released a guide and toolkit to help schools and colleges develop effective targeted mental health and wellbeing support.

The government has pledged further support for young people with SEND with changes to the short breaks offer, supported internship opportunities, and increased focus on those with Down syndrome.

Now and Beyond – The mental health festival for schools and colleges is being held again this year on Wednesday 7th February.

Whole School SEND has today published its highly anticipated second edition of the Teacher Handbook: SEND.

Charlotte is an education researcher specialising in inclusion, digital alternative provision and the use of data to improve outcomes for learners with SEND. She leads a Knowledge Transfer Partnership between the University of Staffordshire and Nisai Learning, examining how digital learning can support students who are poorly served by mainstream education. Drawing on more than a decade in teaching, her work combines classroom experience, mixed-methods research and data analysis to explore what equitable digital provision looks like in practice.

Paul spent over 20 years as a special educational needs teacher, school leader and advisor in both mainstream and special education settings. As an educator his focus has always been on two key groups of young people; those with social and emotional difficulties, and those who are neuro-diverse – and on the significant overlap between the two. Paul is focused on the role that true innovation and positive disruption can play in creating change in education systems for the most vulnerable learners.

nasen is offering the opportunity for your work to be displayed and discussed an an upcoming online conference, ‘ENABLING ACCESS: What is new in the field of supporting learners with SEND?’ which takes place on Friday 12th April 2024.

The Sutton Trust have issued a report on the current inequalities within early years education and the potential lack of impact and damage to the sector from the new free hours of childcare funded by the government.

New data released on Time to Talk Day (1 February) highlights the extent to which young people are avoiding speaking about their mental health - and how older people are embracing the importance of speaking up.

Following a review, the government has announced changes to the initial teacher training  frameworks. The changes come in response to the sector responses and the review findings.

The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman (LGSCO) has warned that the shortage of educational psychologists is having a significant impact on councils’ ability to set out the needs of learners with SEND.

We are delighted to share that 2 free-to-access online CPD units have been launched by Whole School SEND and Real Group as part of the Universal Services programme.

The Department for Education has announced the providers who have been approved to deliver the new SENCO National Professional Qualification (NPQ). The new mandatory qualification will have it’s first delivery from September 2024.