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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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Front cover for Early Years SEND Review Guide

Early Years SEND Review Guide

  • General
  • 17 Sep 2024
Free
early years
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.

Whole School SEND logo [grey text that reads Whole School and teal text that reads SEND]

Your SEND CPD Passport

  • General
  • 05 Sep 2024
Free

A first class CPD journey will help you move towards deeper knowledge, improved skills and increased confidence.

Teacher Handbook: SEND front cover

Teacher Handbook: SEND

  • General
  • 19 Aug 2024
Free
Teacher Handbook SEND
PfAEY

A reference book designed to improve the educational experience of children and young people by helping education practitioners put inclusion at the heart of their practice.

Youth Sports Trust logo

National Disability Sport Organisation SEND toolkit

  • General
  • 14 Aug 2024
Free
Consortium Partner resource

This toolkit has been designed to provide an introduction to inclusion in the School Games, highlighting key statistics surrounding each SEND and signposting to opportunities to upskill your knowledge in inclusive practice for young people

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Leadership and SENCO toolkit

  • General
  • 03 Jul 2024
Free
toolkit

An interactive toolkit for SENDCos and Senior Leaders to navigate resources and guidance for developing effective SEND provision across a school.

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Co-production and Partnership toolkit

  • General
  • 03 Jul 2024
Free
toolkit

An interactive toolkit for parents or staff external to school to navigate resources and guidance for multiple areas of SEND provision to support learners.

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Teachers toolkit

  • General
  • 03 Jul 2024
Free
toolkit

An interactive toolkit for teachers to navigate resources and guidance for multiple areas of SEND provision to support effective inclusion.

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Teaching Assistants & Learning Support staff toolkit

  • General
  • 03 Jul 2024
Free
toolkit

An interactive toolkit for support staff to navigate resources and guidance for multiple areas of SEND provision to support effective inclusion.

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Webinar: Positively responding to increasing complexity in our mainstream schools – collaborative learning opportunities to inform strategic and systemic thinking

  • Webcasts
  • 02 Jul 2024
Free
WSS past event
Universal SEND Services
Webinar

This webinar explores the current context around pressures on mainstream schools due to the shortage of special school placement and how schools can collaboratively and positively respond as system leaders.

Female teacher with secondary school pupils in a lesson

Webinar: Their future in our hands – Navigating school to career transitions: A webinar for Primary, Secondary and College Educators Part 2

  • Webcasts
  • 03 Apr 2024
Free
WSS past event
transition
,
Webinar
PfA
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Webinar: Their future in our hands – Navigating school to career transitions: A webinar for Primary, Secondary and College Educators Part 1

  • Webcasts
  • 21 Mar 2024
Free
WSS past event
transition
,
Webinar
PfA
A young student getting help from his teacher

Positive beginnings: Supporting children with SEND at the start of their school journey

  • Webcasts
  • 16 Feb 2024
Free
Webinar
WSS past event
primary school
primary
,
Universal needs

This webinar will explore support for children entering mainstream school.  The session will cover early identification of need, processes for positive support and inclusive strategies to ensure that needs are met as children prepare for transition.

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How to ensure balance between the role of SENCO and personal wellbeing.

  • Webcasts
  • 09 Nov 2023
Free
Webinar
WSS past event
Universal needs

Enhancing SENCO wellbeing by managing workload and leading through influence. Delivered by Jean Gross, Rebecca Gonyora and Erica Wolstenholme

nasen and WSS member newsletter September 2023

  • General
  • 28 Sep 2023
Free
WSS enews

Welcome to your September update, full of SEND CPD opportunities to help support your ambitions for an inclusive learning environment.

Young child sat at a desk with a board and pen being supported by a female support staff

Meeting increasing Social Emotional, Mental Health (SEMH) needs within mainstream settings

  • Webcasts
  • 12 Jul 2023
Free
Webinar
WSS past event
Universal needs

In this webinar we will explore the increase in SEMH needs and how we can meet the challenge of assessing needs and providing targeted support within school.

Webinar - SEND and Alternative Provision Improvement Plan: What do schools and colleges need to know?

  • Webcasts
  • 04 May 2023
Free
Webinar
Universal Services

This webinar will provide an overview of the Department for Education’s Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and Alternative Provision (AP) Improvement plan which was published at the beginning of March.

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Talking Head - Professional Development Groups Tim James Director of Inclusion

  • Webcasts
  • 04 Apr 2023
Free
PD Groups

A Director of Inclusion talks about the benefit to their learning in addition to improved outcomes in their school of being a member of the professional groups.

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Talking Head - Teacher Handbook Zoe Nash SENCO

  • Webcasts
  • 04 Apr 2023
Free
School improvement for SEND
Teacher Handbook SEND

A SENCO talks about the benefits to her school of using the Teacher Handbook.

Live online networking sessions supporting resources

  • General
  • 27 Mar 2023
Free
Universal SEND Services
Online Units
Live Discussion

A bank of resources to support the Online networking sessions for Unit 1 -3

Webinar - SEND - Legacy of Leadership

  • Webcasts
  • 16 Mar 2023
Free
SCNWLON
Webinar
Universal needs
NPQ

In the final session in this series of three, we reflect on SEND at a strategic and executive level, in our sense-making and decision-making.