WSS Member Newsletter July 2022

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Dear SEND Welcome to the last Whole School SEND update for this academic year. It's been another challenging year in education, so we hope you can relax and enjoy your well-deserved summer break.

We will return in September with exciting updates and CPD opportunities to help you achieve the best outcomes for the children and young people in your settings.

In the meantime, today's update includes: WSS news and updates We're celebrating success... but not stopping here!

Online learning modules - would you like a preview?

Your SEND CPD priorities WSS webinars Ensuring accurate identification of SEN in school and college settings - 4pm, 22 September 2022 Is Ofsted a force for improving the education for all learners with SEND? Webinar recording now available!

WSS regional updates Your regional team updates nasen news nasen Live 2022 - Inclusion by Design nasen Awards 2022 - open for nominations!

Sector news

SEND Review - Don't be a bystander!

Best Wishes Maria Carney Whole School SEND Communications Manager mariacarney@nasen.org.uk

WSS news and updates We're celebrating success... but not stopping here!

As a Whole School SEND member, you're well aware of the work that we have been delivering through funding from the DfE over the last few years – you've more than likely attended a webinar, used one (or more) of our resources, or linked up with your regional team.

We were able to offer these opportunities through the SEND Schools’ Workforce contract from 2018-2022. We know that they were very well received and have already started to have impact for children and young people with SEND - something we're celebrating through our easyread report, The Impact of Whole School SEND, which we hope you'll enjoy.

We're optimistic about the future, but we remain realistic about the hard work that is yet to be done.

Our desire to more and better for children and young people with SEND - too many of whom continue not to achieve their ambitions - drives us forward.

We're committed to ensuring that all schools are inclusive in their approach so that we can improve outcomes for all learners. In her latest blog, Alex Grady, Head of Whole School SEND, explains how the Universal SEND Services programme is going to help achieve our ambitions.

The Impact of Whole School SEND

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Would you like to preview our online learning units?

As part of the Universal SEND Services programme, we are developing a series of online learning units to support the workforce with early and accurate identification of learning differences.

The series will consist of 20 asynchronous units, each intended to take 20 minutes to complete.

We are recruiting a team of volunteers from a wide range of regions and settings – both school and FE – to help test and feedback on the units, which will be produced in stages over the next two years.

If you’re interested in helping to shape resources that will make a material difference to the learning experiences of children and young people with SEND, please get in touch using the form below!

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Your SEND CPD priorities

Our mission is to support and develop the schools workforce so they are fully equipped to meet the needs of learners with SEND. Please take a few moments to share your CPD priorities for the year ahead. This will help make sure the topics we cover reflect the needs of the sector.

Tell us your priorities

WSS Webinars Ensuring accurate identification of SEN in school and college settings 4pm - 5.30pm, 22 September 2002

A webinar to support you in developing effective systems and processes to enable the early and accurate identification of SEN in your setting.

You'll learn strategies to enable the use of national SEND data to support identification systems in your own settings, and discuss how the pandemic has impacted on the development of CYP, and consequently the identification of SEN in education settings.

This session is relevant for both experienced and new SENCOs and others with this important responsibility, which is particularly challenging at the current time.

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Is Ofsted a force for improving the education for all learners with SEND? Recoding now available!

Malcolm Reeve shares practical tools and templates to help schools reflect on SEND as they prepare for an Ofsted inspection. We explore Ofsted inspection outcomes under the current framework from a SEND perspective, and consider whether this framework is improving the education for learners with SEND. Angela Holdsworth MBE shares a Trust and school level perspective, having engaged in 7 inspections under the current EIF. Watch now

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WSS Regional Updates Our Regional Teams

Understanding the local context is crucial to improving national SEND provision. For that reason, each Whole School SEND region (designed to reflect the DfE's Regional Schools Commissioners areas) has a Regional SEND team, formed from school-based SEND practitioners, to support prioritisation of SEND across the region.

You can find information about the regional teams on our website. By updating your membership profile to include your region, you will also receive tailored information such as invitations to networking events and relevant local insights in this section of future enewsletters.

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nasen NEWS nasen Live 2022 - Inclusion by Design

nasen LIVE returns to the Vox Conference Centre, Birmingham, this Friday!

Themed ‘Inclusion by Design,’ nasen's one-day conference offers an amazing opportunity to share SEND best practice and network face-to-face with colleagues.

Keep an eye on the nasen website, where presentations from the day's speakers will be available after the event.

Explore what's on at nasen Live 2022!

nasen Awards

Birmingham's Grand Hotel will play host to the sixth annual nasen Awards on 14 October 2022 Every year, nasen receives an overwhelming amount of nominations for organisations and individuals who champion those within the SEND sector and deserve recognition.

Details of categories, information about our sponsors, and tips for submitting nominations can all be found on the nasen website.

Hurry - nominations close on 29 July!

nasen Awards - read on!

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Sector news SEND Review - Don't be a bystander!

There is now just over a week left to respond to the SEND Review: Right Support, Right Place, Right Time.

We know life in education is busy and that it's hard to find time, but every response matters, and it's vital that we take this opportunity to come together as members of the schools workforce to do our best for all of our learners - including children and young people with SEND. There are 22 questions posed through the consultation, which are outlined in our SEND Review online resources. You don't have to answer them all, and if none of them are a perfect fit for the messages you want to send to government, you can use Q22 to address any SEND-related topic of significance to you.

Let's help to make sure we help deliver the change that our children and young people deserve inclusion by design that sets them on their way to thriving in adulthood and achieving their best in life.

Find out everything you need to know about making your response here

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