Inclusion Community

Beyond a briefing, this group will help those with a strategic responsibility for SEND In their school ensure that pupils with SEND and other disadvantaged pupils are not left behind. The aim of this group is to engage critically with evidence-informed approaches and to support disciplined innovation in schools, as well as sharing practice across schools.

To sign up for  this Community

Head Teachers of member schools are automatically members of this community.

Other interested colleagues should scan the QR code or visit:

https://forms.gle/MwZTUYehSzjez2gi7

• Delivering Better Value in SEND Programme (DfE, 2025)

• Naming schools on an EHCP lawful consultations guidance (Stone King, 2024)

• The Local Area SEND Review - Newham (Ofsted, 2022)

• The Five-a-day approach (EEF, Jan 2022)

• Deployment of teaching assistants (EEF, 2025)

• Use of teaching assistants in schools Research report (DfE, 2024)

• Teaching & Learning Toolkit strand on Teaching Assistant Interventions (EEF)

• Special Educational Needs in Mainstream Schools Guidance Report  and associated materials (EEF, 2021)

• Improving Social and Emotional Learning in Primary Schools (EEF, 2021)

• Improving Behaviour in Schools (EEF, 2019)

• SEND Evidence Review (EEF, March 2020)

• The SEND Code of Practice (DfE, 2013)

• Blog: Intentional deployment of Teaching Assistants; an integral component of inclusion (RSN, 2025)

• Blog: Supporting Independence: A Learning Support Assistant’s Reflection and Growth (RSN, 2025)

• Changing the way we inspect SEND with BSL (Ofsted, 2022)

• Remote Education - children with SEND (Ofsted, 2021)

• Remote Education - What has worked well? (Ofsted, 2021)

• Remote Education - Learning for the future (Ofsted, 2021)

• Remote Education - Bridging the gap (Ofsted, 2021)

• SEND Joint Area Inspections (Ofsted, 2021)

• Final report on SEND Joint Area Inspections (Ofsted, 2021)

• SEND and the curriculum (Ofsted, 2019)

• Support for children with SEND (National Audit Office, 2019)

• What if we thought anew about SEND? (UCL IOE, 2018)

• Podcast: Preparation for adulthood (Ofsted, 2025)

• Podcast: Evidence into Action: Deployment of teaching assistants (EEF, 2025)

• Podcast: Evidence into Action: SEN in mainstream and adaptive teaching (EEF, 2023)

• Podcast: Alternative route: what's the picture of alternative provision? (Ofsted, 2024)

• Podcast: School Exclusions and Alternative Provision (Ofsted, 2022)

• Leadership for Inclusion: What can you do? (Open University - Free Course, level 3)

• Leadership for Inclusion: Thinking it through (Open University - Free Course, level 3)

(coming soon)

Guidance Documents

• Putting Evidence to Work (Implementation Guidance) (EEF, 2024)

Videos

• A schools' guide to Implementation - Animation (EEF, 2024)

• Newham Learning: Implementation (Newham Learning, 2022)

Templates

• Action plan template (pdf)

• Action plan template (docx)

• Case study template (pdf)

• Case study template (pptx)

• The video game prescribed by doctors to treat ADHD (BBC, 11 Jul 2022)

• EHCP statistics (DfE, 2024)

(coming soon)