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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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Early Years SEND Review Guide

  • General
  • 12 May 2025
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.

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College SEND Review Guide

  • General
  • 12 May 2025
Free
WSS Review Guide

Any college is able to use the College SEND Review in order to self-evaluate the effectiveness of its provision for learners with special educational needs and disabilities.

SEND Review Guide: A school-led approach to improving provision for all

SEND Review guide

  • General
  • 12 May 2025
Free
WSS Review Guide

This guide can be used by SENCos and other senior leaders to consider how the whole school functions for pupils with SEND. The process can be used in mainstream and specialist settings.

SEND Governance Review Guide

SEND Governance Review Guide

  • General
  • 12 May 2025
Free
WSS Review Guide
Multi Academy Trust SEND Review Guide

MAT SEND Review Guide

  • General
  • 12 May 2025
Free
WSS Review Guide

This guide supports leaders in multi-academy trusts to evaluate the quality of SEND provision across a group of schools.

A school - led approach to improving provision for all

Teaching Assistant Deployment Review Guide

  • General
  • 08 May 2025
Free
WSS Review Guide

A school-led approach to improving provision for all

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SEND Reflection Framework

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  • 08 May 2025
Free
WSS Review Guide

This guide can be used by any classroom practitioner to reflect on and refine their pedagogy for pupils with SEND.

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Preparing for Adulthood from the Earliest Years Review Guide

  • General
  • 08 May 2025
Free
WSS Review Guide
PfA review guide
PfAEY
A guide for SENCOs and their line managers

Effective SENCO Deployment

  • General
  • 08 May 2025
Free
WSS Review Guide

A guide for SENCOs and their line managers

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Every Leader a Leader of SEND - Tool

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  • 08 May 2025
Free
WSS Review Guide

This Tool can be used by Senior Leadership Teams to consider inclusion within their setting, and explores how inclusion is communicated through policies, enacted in practice and experienced by stakeholders.

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Universally Useful SEND CPD

  • General
  • 25 Feb 2025
Free

FREE SEND CPD for your settings

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Alternative Pathways: specialist and mainstream collaboration in action - NEW PODCAST!

  • General
  • 07 Jan 2025
Free

Clare Belli talks to Rachel Martin from the Southampton Inclusion Partnerships Outreach Service

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Universally Useful SEND CPD

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  • 07 Jan 2025
Free

FREE SEND CPD for your settings

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Universally Useful SEND CPD

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  • 07 Jan 2025
Free

Parent / Carer information about FREE SEND CPD

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Responding to increasing complexity in mainstream schools - NEW PODCAST!

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  • 07 Jan 2025
Free

Ahead of the second part, our Regional SEND Leader for South London, Amelie Thompson, chats with Cheryl Gaughan and Amy Shaw about their experiences of introducing an inclusion hub to their Multi Academy Trust.

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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.

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Teacher Handbook: SEND

  • General
  • 19 Aug 2024
Free
Teacher Handbook SEND
PfAEY
Dyslexia

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.

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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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Teaching Assistants & Learning Support staff toolkit

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  • 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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Leadership and SENCO toolkit

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  • 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.