Thinking
The latest thinking from our team of experts and our community of frontline educators.
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Special educational needs and disabilities provision: aims, challenges and solutions
Ambition Institute expert Ben Karlin unpicks what we know about leading special educational needs provision in schools, the challenges currently faced in the sector and possible solutions.
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What is the NPQ for Special Educational Needs Co-ordinators?
Learn about the new NPQ for Special Educational Needs Co-ordinators (NPQSENCO), including what the framework contains and how it could benefit your school and practice.
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Using professional development to equip special schools and support all pupils
Deputy head Phil Leaney shares how his team set up a SEND and Inclusion Hub, and used the NPQs to equip nearby special schools and support all pupils. Find out more.
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A Mountain Rescue approach to SEND inclusion
At our third SEND roundtable event, Nicole Dempsey, Director of SEND and Safeguarding at Dixons Academies Trust, shared how and why she evolved an alternative approach to SEND inclusion.
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No child is ineducable
Theatre director, author and learning disability activist Stephen Unwin discusses why "no child is ineducable" in his keynote speech from the second of four SEND roundtable events.