SEND training guide for professionals
8. Targeted training for specific partners
Specific and appropriate to particular professional groups.
Health partners
Keyworking (elearning for healthcare) has been developed to support NHS England to implement Keyworking services for children and young people with a learning disability and autistic children and young people. Keyworking services will support children and young people who are at risk of admission, or have been admitted to a mental health hospital, and their families.
Education providers
Education workforce development provides information for professionals working in early years settings, schools, and further education colleges.
Schools are expected to make reasonable adjustments to meet the needs of children and young people with SEND. Area SEND Inspection support for staff.
LPDS STS SENDCo Seminar training.
Lancashire Emotional Health in Schools and Colleges training - training and support from LEHSS is free for anyone employed by a school or college in the Lancashire County Council area. To help meet the learning needs in your setting around mental health, we offer Universal, Targeted and Specialist support.
Autism in Schools / Partnerships for Inclusion of Neurodiversity in Schools (PINS)
The Autism in Schools (PDF) project has shown how schools can provide positive environments and support for autistic pupils. Autism in Schools also encourages schools to work in partnership with SEND families, creating opportunities for parent carers to come together, to provide support to each other, share information and to co-produce solutions to any issues identified.
Partnerships for Inclusion of Neurodiversity in Schools (PINS) will bring health and education specialists and expert parent carers into mainstream primary settings to:
- Help shape whole school SEND provision.
- Provide early interventions at a school level.
- Upskill school staff.
- Support strengthening of partnerships between schools and parent carers.
Social Care
Social Care Academy
Learning packages available include:
- Children with ADHD
- Mental Capacity Act and DoLS for Children's Services
- Autism for Children's Residential services
- Supporting Children with Physical Disabilities
- Health and Safety in Relation to Children with Disabilities
- Understanding How Autism Affects Children's Behaviours
- Mental Health in Children and How to Support Them
- Developing Communication with Children and Young People with SEND
Local authority partners
Course centre - Blackburn with Darwen Learning (melearning.university)
- Adverse Childhood Experiences
- Education Health and Care Plan
- Mental Capacity Act
- Eating Disorders
- Understanding Behaviour of Children and Young People
- Suicide Prevention
- Managing Continence
- Managing Stoma Care