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

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Specialist Spotlight: Creating an effective inclusion strategy (Cross phase)

  • Webcasts
  • 16 Oct 2026
Free
Universal SEND Services
WSS past event
webinar

The session will explore how schools can strategically consider pupil need, inclusive practice, leadership and provision while ensuring their strategy reflects the unique context and priorities of their school.

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Knowing Your Reader: Adapting Teaching to Improve Curriculum Access and Outcomes

  • Webcasts
  • 16 Oct 2026
Free
Universal SEND Services
WSS past event
webinar

Join Martin Galway and Lynn Lovell for a webinar on exploring how current reading research and an understanding of individual learner profiles can inform effective classroom practice in both primary and secondary settings.

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Leading Specialist Spaces: Safeguarding Children with Complex SEND in Mainstream Settings

  • Webcasts
  • 16 Oct 2026
Free
Universal SEND Services
WSS past event
webinar

This webinar will explore how senior leaders and DSLs with the specialist insight to read complex behaviour, work past communication barriers, and make sure no child goes unheard.

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Close-to-Practice Research: Ethical Considerations

  • General
  • 12 Oct 2026
Free
USS
Universal SEND Services
case study
Case Studies
free resource

An editable checklist to help you make sure your close-to-practice research is manageable, fair and appropriate before you begin or share it.

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Inclusive Practice Hub Case Study Template

  • General
  • 12 Oct 2026
Free
Universal SEND Services
USS
Case Studies
case study
free resource

An editable template to help you write up and share your inclusive practice as a case study for the Whole School SEND Inclusive Practice Hub.

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Developing Inclusive Practice Through Close-to-Practice Research

  • General
  • 12 Oct 2026
Free
USS
Universal SEND Services
Research
Case Studies

A practical guide to investigating, developing and sharing inclusive practice through research rooted in your own classroom or setting.

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Developing Strategic SEND Provision with Whole School SEND

  • Webcasts
  • 25 Sep 2026
Free
Universal SEND Services
WSS past event
webinar

Join Dawn Cranshaw, Whole School SEND Regional Lead for the Northwest, for a 30-minute webinar designed to help SENCOs and school leaders strengthen strategic SEND provision.

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Improving Your Classroom SEND Practice with Whole School SEND

  • Webcasts
  • 25 Sep 2026
Free
Universal SEND Services
WSS past event
webinar

Join Dawn Cranshaw, Whole School SEND Regional Lead for the Northwest, for a 30-minute webinar focused on developing your knowledge, confidence, and skills in the classroom.

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Neurodiversity Training Package: Train the Trainer Webinar – Autumn Half Term 1 (all settings)

  • Webcasts
  • 23 Sep 2026
Free
Neurodiversity
Universal SEND Services

Join us for a free webinar supporting leaders, SENCOs and inclusion teams across primary, secondary and FE settings to deliver the Neurodiversity Train the Trainer package with confidence.

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Neurodiversity Train the Trainer package (Further Education)

  • General
  • 23 Sep 2026
Free
Universal SEND Services
Neurodiversity

Aligned with the latest DfE and EEF standards, this further education package helps lecturers and support teams create an inclusive, neuro-affirming culture for young people and adult learners.

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Neurodiversity Train the Trainer package (Secondary)

  • General
  • 23 Sep 2026
Free
Universal SEND Services
Neurodiversity

Aligned with the latest DfE and EEF standards, this secondary package helps subject and pastoral teams deliver consistent, neuro-affirming practice across a large and busy setting.

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Neurodiversity Train the Trainer package (Primary)

  • General
  • 23 Sep 2026
Free
Universal SEND Services
Neurodiversity

Aligned with the latest DfE and EEF standards, this primary package helps you build an inclusive, neuro-affirming culture from the earliest years.

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SEND reforms: what they mean for schools and colleges

  • Webcasts
  • 17 Aug 2026
Free
Universal SEND Services
WSS past event
webinar

What do the proposed SEND reforms mean in practice? nasen CEO Annamarie Hassall MBE and an expert panel unpack the direction of travel.

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Leading specialist spaces in mainstream: Assessment, Voice and Partnerships

  • Webcasts
  • 24 Feb 2026
Free
WSS past event
Universal SEND Services
webinar

Develop teaching practice in internal, specialist provisions by tapping into best practice from the specialist sector

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Leading specialist spaces in mainstream: Specialist pedagogy in practice

  • Webcasts
  • 11 Feb 2026
Free
WSS past event
Universal SEND Services
webinar

Develop teaching practice in internal, specialist provisions by tapping into best practice from the specialist sector

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Leading Specialist Spaces in Mainstream: Critical Foundations

  • Webcasts
  • 29 Jan 2026
Free
WSS past event
Universal SEND Services
webinar

This first session is critical for any leader establishing or reviewing internal specialist provisions

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Meeting Needs and Building Inclusion Through Assistive Technology

  • Webcasts
  • 28 Jan 2026
Free
WSS past event
Universal SEND Services
webinar

This CPD session, delivered in partnership with Concero, is designed to help educators understand how to use assistive technology to support inclusive teaching and improve learner independence

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Webinar: Positively responding to increasing complexity in our mainstream schools part 3: Implementing effective curriculum in additional provisions in mainstream schools

  • Webcasts
  • 13 Nov 2025
Free
WSS past event
Universal SEND Services
Webinar

This webinar builds on our initial exploration of this theme in Positively responding to increasing complexity in our mainstream schools – collaborative learning opportunities to inform strategic and systemic thinking.

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Early Years SEND Review Guide

  • General
  • 24 Oct 2025
Free
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SEND Review
WSS Review Guide

The Early Years SEND Review Guide was developed for Early Years practitioners and reviewers, to support the review and development of inclusive provision and practice.

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Inclusive Leadership and Management in Schools

  • Webcasts
  • 23 Oct 2025
Free
Universal SEND Services

This engaging and practical webinar explores the crucial relationship between inclusion and Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) within schools.

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