SEND training guide for professionals

  1. Overview
  2. All partners: Basic essential training
  3. All partners: Autism specific training resources
  4. All partners: Mandatory training
  5. All partners: Targeted Training
  1. Basic Awareness Training for specific partners
  2. Mandatory Training for specific partners
  3. Targeted training for specific partners
  4. Specialist training for specific partners

2. All partners: Basic essential training

Essential reading

Essential reading, includes the SEND code of practice statutory duties, and related documentation for relevant sector, including Special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) - local offer.

Council for Disabled Children

Training catalogue from Council for Disabled Children includes:

  • Level 1 SEND Basic Awareness
  • Level 2 SEND Basic Awareness
  • Information, Advice and support
  • Holistic outcomes in EHCP's
  • Expert parent programme
  • Ordinarily available provision: Thresholds and expectations of schools and settings
  • Social care and SEND
  • Focus on Health advice
  • The role of CAMHS in the EHCP Process
  • Decisions, capacity and an introduction to Liberty Protection Safeguards
  • Delivering quality annual reviews

Disability Matters

Disability Matters Hub is a free eLearning resource for the UK workforce.

It consists of three programmes:

  • Disability Matters: all Disability Matters eLearning sessions
  • Disability Matters Learning Packages: eLearning sessions that have been grouped together to meet particular learning needs.
  • Disability Matters Resources: Face-to-face training resource packs

Early help training

Early help training for practitioners provides free multi-agency training for all professionals working with children, and families in Lancashire with SEND workshops planned for 2024.

NSPCC

Supporting children who have additional needs and disabilities (NSPCC Learning) provides resources, information and guidance to help you protect children and young people who have additional needs and disabilities.

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