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The Centres for Excellence in SEND newsletter

The monthly Centres for Excellence in SEND newsletter brings you all the latest news and activities from the three Centres, as well as highlighting the Foundation's SEND CPD opportunities. You can access editions of the newsletter below. You can sign up to receive the newsletter by email by visiting our newsletters page and filling in your details, making sure you tick the ‘SEND’ box.

Previous editions of the Centres for Excellence in SEND newsletter

Events

The ETF and Centres for Excellence in SEND and Employer Spoke events

Free events and in-house offers are delivered by our three Centres for Excellence in SEND (CfE) and employer spokes. For more details on the events and how to connect with a SEND Community of Practice, please visit the Centres for Excellence pages.

Ambitious about Autism

The following webinars are held monthly by Ambitious about Autism, more details can be found on their website.

Courses

SEND CPD Framework

Are you looking for specific training? As part of a mapping exercise of SEND CPD training and qualifications available from the ETF and a wide range of other organisations we have produced a SEND CPD Framework. The information is provided to raise awareness to the SEND workforce of the variety CPD opportunities available. The inclusion of information from other organisations does not indicate a recommendation by the ETF of this offer.

We cannot guarantee the quality of any events not organised by or on behalf of the Foundation.

Publications, reports, research and resources

Tomorrow's leaders: a world beyond disability

Tomorrow’s leaders: a world beyond disability is a publication featuring young people who are all achieving great things in their own lives, in their communities and wider society. The Education and Training Foundation worked with the Council for Disabled Children to develop and publish the resource.

The publication contains inspiring stories from young people who are achieving their goals in:

arts, sports and leisure
campaigning, advocacy and inclusion
entrepreneurship and employment

The publication is written for those learning and working in education. It highlights the importance of having the highest aspirations for our young people and supporting them to achieve them.

Gatsby benchmarks

The Gatsby Foundation, has published a resource, Good Career Guidance: Perspectives from the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities sector using the Gatsby Benchmarks with students with SEND.

Making the SEND reforms work

Commissioned by The ETF, The National Development Team for Inclusion (NTDi) have produced two case study videos showcasing how local authorities and FE providers work together to support learners with SEND achieve their aspirations inclusing progressing into employment.

The first case study video shows how Greenbank College in Liverpool and its local authority worked in partnership to promote independent living and the second case study video shows how several learning providers in Nottinghamshire and the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire local authorities worked successfully together so that learners with SEND gained employment.

DfE Announcements

Senior mental health lead training

Start the new academic year learning how to embed a culture and practice in your setting that promotes and supports mental wellbeing, helping young people to engage in learning. Apply for a senior mental health lead training grant and book training for the new academic year. Senior lead training helps develop the knowledge and practical skills of college leaders to implement an effective approach to promoting and supporting mental wellbeing in your setting.

Find out about other resources and help you can get to promote and support mental health and wellbeing at Promoting and supporting mental health and wellbeing in schools and colleges.

Case studies to support attendance in specialist settings

To maintain high levels of attendance, the Department for Education, is reminding providers of the case studies to support attendance in specialist settings which share experiences, ideas and solutions that have worked to keep their learners in attendance. They are published on the Council for Disabled Children website.

Special Educational Needs and Disability

Meeting the needs of learners with learning difficulties and / or disabilities

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