Continuous Professional Development
Whatever your role in school, our courses are designed to deepen understanding, build inclusive practice and support meaningful outcomes for all learners.
Our Courses
We offer a range of central training opportunities developed and led by our specialist team. Our course menu is informed by the ever changing landscape of SEND and inclusion. All of our courses can also be personalised and delivered directly within your setting.
our courses
Explore our diverse range of training modules below.
All mainstream schools across England must publish their statutory inclusion strategy on their school website by 31 December 2026.
This course will support you to meet that deadline by helping you to write an effective inclusion strategy that takes account of the 7 principles of inclusion. This course will:
– Support you to analyse, identify and understand the commonly occurring barriers to learning and participation pupils at your school face
– Show you how you can gather and analyse evidence to consider inclusive practice
– Explore how you deliver and monitor your strategy
– Assist you in evaluating and sustaining your strategy
– Support you to make the most of your inclusive mainstream fund (IMF) and evidence its impact
As part of our inclusive practices, we are all working hard to identify and meet the needs of children and young people with increasingly complex, profound and multiple needs in our mainstream classrooms. We have developed a course to support you in doing just this.
This course will explore:
– The range of complex needs present in schools.
– How to overcome the challenges of providing high-quality provision for children with complex SEND in mainstream schools.
– A clear step by step process on how to create your own bespoke curriculum for SEND learners.
– How to track progress and monitor SEND provision.
– Quality assuring your additional provision
Outcomes:
– Develop a secure understanding of how a range of factors can inhibit pupils’ ability to learn, and how best to overcome these (Teachers’ Standard 5).
– Understand how pupils learn and how this impacts upon teaching (Teachers’ Standard 2).
– Demonstrate an awareness of the physical, social and intellectual development of children, and know how to adapt teaching to support pupils’ education at different stages of development (Teachers’ Standard 5).
Inclusion bases are provisions within mainstream schools for children and young people with additional needs. Typically, an inclusion base supports children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), or those who require support for behavioural or pastoral reasons, including those at risk of exclusion or low attendance.
This course is designed to help you set up and deliver high-quality provision in inclusion bases, as well as support improvements in existing bases.
During the briefing we will explore:
– The Department for Education’s inclusion bases guidance
– Creating the right environment
– Examples of good practice linked to the principles of effective delivery
– How your base can benefit the whole school
– How curriculum delivery could look
– Tools that can be used for assessment and data collection to evaluate and evidence impact
What to expect:
The SEND and inclusion landscape is ever evolving with lots of new developments on the horizon as practice changes and develops in response to the ‘Every Child Achieving and Thriving’ white paper.
To help you stay ahead of the game we are offering six one-hour virtual briefing sessions. Each session will explore:
– The latest Department for Education guidance
– Local and national updates
– SEND and inclusion research findings
– Signposting and sharing of useful resources
– Sharing of best practice
– Support and advice on the leadership role and aspects of SEND and inclusion
Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities carries many legalities which many of us worry about.
To help you in making sure that you know what is expected and understand the law and its application, through a face-to-face delivery this course explores:
– The Children and Families Act (2014)
– An Introduction to the Disability Equality Act (2010)
– Duties applicable to schools and local authorities
– Education and Health Care Needs assessments, the need for specificity and annual reviews
– Exclusions
– Disability discrimination
– Mental capacity
– Mediation
– Transport