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

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.

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Webinar: Reflective SEND Practice

  • Webcasts
  • 16 Mar 2023
Free
Universal Services
,
SCNWLON
Webinar

In the final session in this series of six, we explore how to be a reflective classroom teacher for SEND.

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Webinar: How to develop a curriculum which is ambitious and accessible for all at each age and stage

  • Webcasts
  • 06 Mar 2023
Free
WSS past event
Universal Services
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This webinar recording explores why it is important for all children to have access to an ambitious curriculum and how schools and colleges can ensure that their curriculum is ambitious and accessible.

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Ensuring equal access to public examinations for candidates with sensory impairments - NatSIP

  • General
  • 13 Feb 2023
Free
Consortium Partner resource

The implications of sensory impairment are well known to teachers of children and young people who are deaf, and/or have vision impairment (VI) and/or a multi-sensory impairment (MSI).

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Webinar: Distributed Leadership of SEND

  • Webcasts
  • 31 Jan 2023
Free
Universal Services
,
SCNWLON
Webinar
NPQ

In the second session in this series of three, we explore deeper the vital role that consistent sense-making and decision-making plays in setting children and young people up for life outside and beyond school.

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Webinar: Teaching Children with Social, Emotional and Mental Health Needs

  • Webcasts
  • 31 Jan 2023
Free
Universal Services
,
SCNWLON
Webinar

In the fifth session in this series of six, we explores strategies that can be implemented in the classroom to support children who consistently present with disruptive or withdrawn behaviour.

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Webinar: Inclusive Classroom Language

  • Webcasts
  • 19 Dec 2022
Free
Universal Services
,
SCNWLON

In this fourth session of the series, participants explore strategies that can be implemented in the classroom to support children with speech, language and communication needs.

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Webinar - SEND: Foundations in Leadership

  • Webcasts
  • 02 Dec 2022
Free
SCNWLON
Webinar
Universal needs
NPQ

Aimed at school leaders doing NPQs in our region, this first session of three webinars reflects on sense-making and decision-making as it relates to learners with SEND, either providing or limiting access and opportunities for learning.

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Evelyn's Deaf Awareness Film - NatSIP

  • General
  • 01 Dec 2022
Free
Consortium Partner resource

Evelyn is 9 years old and tells us about herself and her friends at Riddings Junior School in Derbyshire.

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Webinar: Principles of Assessment and Metacognition

  • Webcasts
  • 21 Nov 2022
Free
Universal Services
,
SCNWLON

This session explores how to accurately assess and narrate the steps of progress that learners with SEND make within whole class teaching.

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Webinar: Teaching children with Cognition and Learning needs

  • Webcasts
  • 07 Nov 2022
Free
Universal Services
,
SCNWLON

This session explores strategies that can be implemented in the classroom to support children who have difficulties processing and retaining new information.

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Webinar: Adapting teaching for learners with SEND

  • Webcasts
  • 04 Oct 2022
Free
Early Career
SCNWLON

This session for Early Career Teachers, explores strategies that can be implemented in the classroom to support children and young people with SEND using the graduated approach (Assess, Plan, Do, Review).

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Webinar: Ensuring accurate identification of SEN in school and college settings

  • Webcasts
  • 23 Sep 2022
Free
WSS past event
Universal Services
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This webinar recording supports you in developing effective systems and processes to enable the early and accurate identification of SEN in your setting.  

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Webinar: Is Ofsted a force for improving the education for all learners with SEND?

  • Webcasts
  • 29 Jun 2022
Free
WSS past event
Universal Services
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Malcolm Reeve shares practical tools and templates to help schools reflect on SEND as they prepare for an Ofsted inspection.

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Ten Top Tips for Sports Coaches: Working with Children and Young People with ADHD

  • General
  • 10 Jun 2022
Free
Consortium Partner resource
sport

Youth Sports Trust and the ADHD Foundation explore some ideas to help make your club or team an inclusive place for children and young people with ADHD.

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The Inclusive Classroom: High Quality Teaching in every setting

  • General
  • 01 Jun 2022
Free
School improvement for SEND

A programme to develop quality first teaching and inclusive practice to benefit pupils with SEND in reading.

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Talking Head - Professional Development Groups Erica Biddle SENCO

  • Webcasts
  • 01 Jun 2022
Free
PD Groups

A SENCO talks about the benefit to her learning in addition to improved outcomes in her school of being a member of the professional groups.

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Talking Head - Professional Development Groups Vicky Newman Headteacher

  • Webcasts
  • 01 Jun 2022
Free
PD Groups

A headteacher talks about the benefits to her school of participating in the professional development group.

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Access to SEND CPD and Expertise Research

  • General
  • 24 May 2022
Free
Research

This research explores the experiences of the school workforce in relation to their access to, and experience of SEND CPD.

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Effective SEN support: research evidence on effective approaches and examples of current practice in good and outstanding schools and colleges. A guide for senior leaders in education settings

  • General
  • 19 May 2022
Free
Effective SEN Support

This guide summarises findings from a summary of published research, referred to as ‘what the evidence says’, and advice from experts and schools and colleges displaying promising practice, referred to as ‘what the sector says’.

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