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Keep up to date with all of the latest news, headlines and features from across the SEND sector.

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The National SEND Conference 2022

This annual conference taking place on the 15th June 2022 brings you the latest updates and practical guidance delivered via interactive Q&As, panel discussions and breakout rooms. 

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Grants for recreational trips or holidays for disabled or disadvantaged children

The Henry Smith Charity has just released the next set of grants for 2022 to provide access to recreational trips or holidays for groups of children who experience disadvantage or who have disabilities. 

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New resource available – Scanning Pens Sponsored Webinar

Last week, Scanning Pens released a sponsored webinar, now available for free on the nasen website for members.

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Free Assistive Technology Resources

As part of the programme a suite of resources are being developed that all schools can access. Assistive Technology Resource Bank One and Two have been published and are located on the nasen website.

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New report identifies widening of the disadvantage gap

A new report by the Education Policy Institute (EPI) has provided the first comprehensive picture of the impact of COVID-19 on the existing ‘disadvantage gap’.

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Pupil Premium – time for a rethink?

The education charity Teach First have produced a new report calling on government to rethink the current approach and increase and expand the pupil premium.

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Free e-module training with Council for Disabled Children

The Council for Disabled Children (CDC) have produced new e-modules to add to their Training Catalogue. The new modules are entitled ‘Delivering Quality Annual Reviews’ and ‘The role of CAMHS in the EHCP process’.

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Early Years SEND Partnership upcoming events and resources

As a result of our successful partnership with 6 other organisations in the Early Years SEND Partnership, nasen can highlight the following DfE-funded events and resources.

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Free webinars to support mental health in schools

Association of Child & Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH) has recently launched an initiative aimed at teachers, to enable schools to access and put to use resources that can genuinely make a difference to the mental wellbeing and educational outcomes...

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Safer Internet Day Resources for pupils with SEND

Safer Internet Day 2022 has the theme is ‘All fun and games? Exploring respect and relationships online’. Children and young people in our schools have grown up with the digital world as part of their everyday lives.

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New Ofsted report into pupil attendance

Ofsted have released a report ‘Securing good attendance and tackling persistent absence’. It looks at different aspects of pupil attendance and how schools tackle the challenges associated with supporting pupils in this area.

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Youth Sport Trust Inclusion 2024 Live Event

The Youth Sport Trust are running a Department for Education funded programme on behalf of a consortium of organisations, including nasen, titled “Inclusion 2024”. 

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Children’s Mental Health Week 

Children’s mental health week starts 7th February 2022 and the theme is ‘Growing Together’. During this week schools across the UK will be exploring the concept of growing emotionally and supporting each other to grow.

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Behaviour and Exclusions Consultation Launched

The Department for Education (DfE) have launched a consultation on proposed changes to the Behaviour in Schools Guidance and Suspension and Permanent Exclusion Guidance.

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Renewed Calls for Equitable Assessment

Two years of disruption to assessment and grading has shone solely needed light onto the pre-existing assessment system across the UK.

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Government announces new package to transform education in ‘left behind’ areas

The Department for Education and the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities have announced that education will be at the heart of major new reforms in their drive to Level Up in identified areas.

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Can Flexi-schooling for children with SEND support educational outcomes?

A new report by the Relationships Foundation looks into the use of flexi-schooling for children with SEND across the UK.

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Children’s Social Care Review - Updates 

In the latest response from Josh McAllister, chair of the review into children’s social care, he identifies the key themes coming from stakeholders submissions and has written them into his latest blog.

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Inclusion accountability measures

A new paper by thinktank Education Policy Institute (EPI) has recommended that schools be judged on a wider range of accountability measures including those relating to pupil inclusion.

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nasen leads Assistive Technology training pilot in mainstream schools in partnership with Microlink

We are pleased to announce that we’ve joined forces with Assistive Technology provider, Microlink and the Department for Education (DfE) to lead a training pilot involving over 80 mainstream schools across the country.