Useful websites
National Development Team for Inclusion (opens new window) - Information and resources to help children and young people express their choices regarding their preparation for adulthood.
Social workers toolbox (opens new window) - Free resources for professionals working with children and families. Includes resources specifically for CYP with SEND.
Person centered thinking tools (opens new window) - Person-centred thinking tools are a set of easy-to-use templates that are used to give structure to conversations. Using them is a practical way to capture information that feeds into person-centred planning, as well as to improve understanding, communication and relationships.
Speech and language resources for educators and professionals (opens new window) - Free resources for educators and professionals, designed to help support children facing challenges with talking and understanding words.
CBeebies (opens new window) - Interactive games for young children with SEND.
Speech and language resources for educators and professionals (opens new window) - The Whole School SEND consortium regularly publishes resources to support with all aspects of SEND. These include SEND Review Guides and Frameworks, leaflets for parents, practical resources to support your work in educational settings, resources for specific contexts such as COVID, CPDL webinar recordings and more.
Me First (opens new window) - 'Me First' is an education and training resource that helps professionals to develop their knowledge, skills and confidence in communicating with children and young people. Their Resource Hub contains some useful tools for gathering children and young people's views.
Complex Needs (opens new window) - Training materials for teachers of learners with severe, profound and complex learning difficulties. Contains training modules about AAC strategies including Module 3.1 - arugmentative and assistive strategies (opens new window).
National Children's Bureau (opens new window) - Contains information and ideas for creative and inclusive strategies.
Natspec enhancing the learner voice (opens new window) - Contains information and ideas for creative and inclusive strategies including enhacing the learner voice.