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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 COVID, 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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Webinar: Supporting Successful Transitions from Primary to Secondary School

  • Webcasts
  • 25 Jun 2021
Free
transition
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WSS past event

This webinar explores key strategies that support effective transitions from Year 6 to Year 7 for pupils with SEND.

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Webinar: Improving Outcomes for Disadvantaged Young People at SEN Support

  • Webcasts
  • 22 Jun 2021
Free
disadvantage
AP/PRU
mainstream
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WSS past event

This series of three webinars supports schools to develop an implementation plan to improve outcomes for disadvantaged children and young people at SEN Support.

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Webinar: SLCN and DLD: What Every Teacher Needs to Know

  • Webcasts
  • 16 Jun 2021
Free
DLD
SLCN
WSS past event

This webinar will give a comprehensive introduction to speech, language and communication needs (SLCN) and Developmental Language Disorder (DLD), and explore how affected children and young people might present in the classroom.

WSS Preparing for Adulthood Review Guide Cover

Webinar: Preparing for Adulthood from the Earliest Years

  • Webcasts
  • 09 Jun 2021
Free
PfA
WSS past event

The webinar looks at the recently updated ‘Preparing for Adulthood from the Earliest Years Review Guide’, designed to support settings in preparing children and young people with SEND for the next stage of their development.

Female teacher with young boy supporting with speech language and communication needs at a table in a classroom

Webinar: Deploying Specialists in Mainstream Settings to Improve Outcomes for Learners with SEND

  • Webcasts
  • 25 Mar 2021
Free
mainstream
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SLCN
WSS past event

This webinar will introduce the findings and key recommendations when mainstream schools look to commission and deploy specialists to improve SEND provision.

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Webinar: Being A Research Engaged SENCO - Primary Focus

  • Webcasts
  • 23 Mar 2021
Free
primary
WSS past event

This is the final in a series of five webinars aiming to provide additional support to new-in-post SENCOs. The series outlines key elements of the SENCO role in this unique context.

I CAN - helps children communicate

Evaluation of a Speech, Language and Communication Needs (SLCN) pathway - Senior Leaders

  • Webcasts
  • 19 Mar 2021
Free
DLD
WSS past event
mainstream
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SLCN

This is an intermediate level webinar aimed at senior leaders in primary and secondary mainstream settings to help improve provision for students with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD).

Female teacher reading to a group of primary school children

Webinar: Whole Class Reading - Access for All

  • Webcasts
  • 18 Mar 2021
Free
mainstream
,
english
,
literacy
WSS past event

This webinar will introduce participants to principles and practical strategies that can be used by teachers to ensure that English lessons improve oracy, develop vocabulary and improve reading outcomes for all learners.

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Webinar: Empowering Staff to Provide SEN Support: The Role of Leaders

  • Webcasts
  • 11 Mar 2021
Free
secondary
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WSS past event

This webinar aims to support secondary SENCOs and all other leaders to empower teaching staff to effectively meet the needs of pupils at SEND Support.

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Webinar: The graduated approach at the heart of distributed leadership for SEND

  • Webcasts
  • 10 Mar 2021
Free
WSS past event

A webinar looking at distributed leadership, aimed at SENCOs, Headteachers and Senior Leaders, Governors and CEOs.

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Webinar: Understanding the difference between SEND and Disadvantage in schools

  • Webcasts
  • 09 Mar 2021
Free
WSS past event

A thought-provoking session based on evidence and experience which challenges the understanding of SEND and Disadvantage in schools.

I CAN - helps children communicate

Involving families in provision for students with DLD – SENCos

  • Webcasts
  • 09 Mar 2021
Free
DLD
mainstream
,
WSS past event

This is an intermediate level webinar aimed at SENCOs in primary and secondary mainstream settings to help improve provision for students with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD).

I CAN - helps children communicate

Building effective practice to support students with DLD - Primary Teachers

  • Webcasts
  • 04 Mar 2021
Free
DLD
mainstream
,
primary
WSS past event

This is an intermediate level webinar aimed at teachers in primary mainstream settings to help improve provision for students with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD).

I CAN - helps children communicate

Building effective practice to support students with DLD - Secondary Teachers

  • Webcasts
  • 02 Mar 2021
Free
DLD
mainstream
,
secondary
,
WSS past event

This is an intermediate level webinar aimed at teachers in secondary mainstream settings to help improve provision for students with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD).

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Webinar: Inclusive Curriculum through the Ofsted Lens

  • Webcasts
  • 02 Mar 2021
Free
ofsted
WSS past event

In this recorded online conference, speakers including Professor Barry Carpenter, WSS National SEND Leader Malcolm Reeve and a representative from Ofsted explore how school leaders can implement an inclusive curriculum for all learners.

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Webinar: PE, Inclusive Sport and Wellbeing

  • Webcasts
  • 24 Feb 2021
Free
PE
,
sport
WSS past event

This webinar focuses on how to ensure your PE and school sport offer is Inspiring, Accessible and Meaningful for all your pupils during and post the national lockdown period.

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Webinar: High-Quality Teaching - Targeting Areas of Need

  • Webcasts
  • 23 Feb 2021
Free
HQT
,
QFT
,
mainstream
,
WSS past event

This two-part webinar series will focus on how high-quality teaching, also known as quality-first teaching (QFT), can be targeted at identified areas of need.

Male teacher writing on a white board in front of primary school children

Webinar: Inclusive Maths - Bridging the gap between abstract and concrete

  • Webcasts
  • 18 Feb 2021
Free
maths
WSS past event

This webinar focuses on recently updated KS1 and KS2 Maths guidance and introduces principles and practical strategies that can be used by teachers to ensure Maths lessons improve outcomes for all learners.

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Webinar: Using data sources to inform best practice

  • Webcasts
  • 11 Feb 2021
Free
data
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WSS past event

Too often data collection is excessive, unreliable, confusing which gives staff less time with children; when used well data can have a profound and positive impact in SEND departments.

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Webinar: Securing Good Transitions

  • Webcasts
  • 04 Feb 2021
Free
WSS past event

This webinar was run to support the launch of a new resource: Securing Good Transitions: A resource pack to support the next steps of Key Stage 4 pupils with SEND