SEND & Inclusion Community

This group aims to support school leaders develop inclusion. Unlike our communities, our special interest groups are intended for self-study. They are aimed at those with a responsibility or an interest in this aspect of education. Please look out for one-off events that support this SIG.

• Ordinarily Available Provision Guidance (Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council, 2025)

• Guidance: The SEND Code of Practice (DfE, 2013)

• Delivering Better Value in SEND Programme (DfE, 2025)

• Guidance: SEND Governance Review Guide (Whole School SEND, 2025)

• Guidance: MAT SEND Review Guide (Whole School SEND, 2025)

• Guidance: Every Leader a Leader of SEND (Whole School SEND, 2025)

• Guidance: Effective SENCO Deployment (Whole School SEND, 2025)

• Guidance: SEND Review Guide (Whole School SEND, 2025)

• Guidance: Early Years SEND Review Guide (Whole School SEND, 2025)

• Guidance: College SEND Review Guide (Whole School SEND, 2025)

• Guidance: SEND Reflection Framework (Whole School SEND, 2025)

• Guidance: Teaching Assistant Deployment Review Guide (Whole School SEND, 2025)

• Guidance: Preparing for Adulthood from the Earliest Years Review Guide (Whole School SEND, 2025)

• Guidance: Special Educational Needs in Mainstream Schools Guidance Report (EEF, 2021)

• Guidance: Deployment of teaching assistants (EEF, 2025)

• Guidance: Teaching & Learning Toolkit strand on Teaching Assistant Interventions (EEF)

• Guidance: Improving Social and Emotional Learning in Primary Schools (EEF, 2021)

• Guidance: Developmental Language Disorder (ICan, 2023)

• Guidance: Behaviour in Schools - Advice for headteachers and school staff (DfE, 2024)

• Guidance: Improving Behaviour in Schools (EEF, 2019)

• Guidance: Positive environments where children can flourish (Ofsted, 2021)

• Guidance: Use of reasonable force in schools (DfE, 2013)

• Guidance: Naming schools on an EHCP lawful consultations (Stone King, 2024)

• Report: Local Area SEND Review - Newham (Ofsted, 2022)

• Report: Ethnic disproportionality in the identification of Special Educational Needs (SEN) in England: Extent, causes and consequences (University of Oxford & ESRC, 2018)

• Research Report: Area SEND framework: findings from the first 2 years of inspections (Ofsted, 2025)

• Research Report: Use of teaching assistants in schools (DfE, 2024)

• Research Report: Speech and language therapy intervention... (IJL&CD, 2011)

• Research Review: SEND Evidence Review (EEF, March 2020)

• Website: Speech, language and communication needs: the invisible or hidden disability (RCSLT)

• Website: Education outcomes for white working class pupils (Star Academies)

• Blog: Intentional deployment of Teaching Assistants; an integral component of inclusion (RSN, 2025)

• Blog: Supporting Independence: A Learning Support Assistant’s Reflection and Growth (RSN, 2025)

• Blog: The Five-a-day approach (EEF, Jan 2022)

• Blog: Is 'Progress 8' a level playing field? The effect of SEND (Linkedin, 2025)

• Video: Supporting pupils with SEND in mainstream settings (Ofsted, Feb 2026)

• Video: SEN units and specially resourced provision (Ofsted, Feb 2026)

• Video: Update on the new alternative provision AP guidance (Ofsted, Feb 2026)

• Video: Alternative provision - The fundamentals (Ofsted, Feb 2026)

• Video: An overview of special schools (Ofsted, Jan 2026)

• Video: The Equality Act 2010 - Refresher of key fundamentals (Ofsted, Feb 2026)

• Video: Inclusion - The fundamentals (Ofsted, Feb 2026)

• Video: A refresher on reasonable adjustments (Ofsted, Feb 2026)

• Video: Different types of schools: Key reminders (Ofsted, Dec 2025)

• Video: Flexi-schooling and different approaches to education (Ofsted, Dec 2025)

• Video: Pupil premium: An overview (Ofsted, Jan 2026)

• Video: Promoting Better Behaviour and Safety in English Schools (Edurio, 2025)

• Video: Pupil Wellbeing Webinar (Edurio, 2025)

• Video: Changing the way we inspect SEND with BSL (Ofsted, 2022)

• Video: Remote Education - children with SEND (Ofsted, 2021)

• Video: Remote Education - What has worked well? (Ofsted, 2021)

• Video: Remote Education - Learning for the future (Ofsted, 2021)

• Video: Remote Education - Bridging the gap (Ofsted, 2021)

• Video: Why might different children with SEND fail maths and what are the implications on teaching practice? (ELRS)

• Video: Autistic play: A neurodiversity-affirming approach (ELRS)

• Video: SEND Joint Area Inspections (Ofsted, 2021)

• Video: Final report on SEND Joint Area Inspections (Ofsted, 2021)

• Video: Support for children with SEND (National Audit Office, 2019)

• Video: What if we thought anew about SEND? (UCL IOE, 2018)

• Video Playlist: Ofsted: Alternative Provision

• Video Playlist: Ofsted: SEND

• Podcast: Preparation for adulthood (Ofsted, 2025)

• Podcast: Evidence into Action: Deployment of teaching assistants (EEF, 2025)

• Podcast: Evidence into Action: SEN in mainstream and adaptive teaching (EEF, 2023)

• Podcast: Alternative route: what's the picture of alternative provision? (Ofsted, 2024)

• Podcast: School Exclusions and Alternative Provision (Ofsted, 2022)

• [20] Online SEND CPD units (Whole School SEND, free course - requires login)

• Leadership for Inclusion: What can you do? (Open University - Free Course, level 3)

• Leadership for Inclusion: Thinking it through (Open University - Free Course, level 3)

(coming soon)

Guidance Documents

• Putting Evidence to Work (Implementation Guidance) (EEF, 2024)

Videos

• A schools' guide to Implementation - Animation (EEF, 2024)

• Newham Learning: Implementation (Newham Learning, 2022)

Templates

• Action plan template (pdf)

• Action plan template (docx)

• Case study template (pdf)

• Case study template (pptx)

• The video game prescribed by doctors to treat ADHD (BBC, 11 Jul 2022)

• EHCP statistics (DfE, 2024)

(coming soon)