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

• Guidance: The SEND Code of Practice (DfE, 2013)

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

• Guidance: SEND Governance Review Guide (Whole School SEND, 2025)

• Guidance: MAT SEND Review Guide (Whole School SEND, 2025)

• Guidance: Every Leader a Leader of SEND (Whole School SEND, 2025)

• Guidance: Effective SENCO Deployment (Whole School SEND, 2025)

• Guidance: SEND Review Guide (Whole School SEND, 2025)

• Guidance: Early Years SEND Review Guide (Whole School SEND, 2025)

• Guidance: College SEND Review Guide (Whole School SEND, 2025)

• Guidance: SEND Reflection Framework (Whole School SEND, 2025)

• Guidance: Teaching Assistant Deployment Review Guide (Whole School SEND, 2025)

• Guidance: Preparing for Adulthood from the Earliest Years Review Guide (Whole School SEND, 2025)

• Guidance: Special Educational Needs in Mainstream Schools Guidance Report (EEF, 2021)

• Guidance: Deployment of teaching assistants (EEF, 2025)

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

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

• Guidance: Developmental Language Disorder (ICan, 2023)

• Guidance: Behaviour in Schools - Advice for headteachers and school staff (DfE, 2024)

• Guidance: Improving Behaviour in Schools (EEF, 2019)

• Guidance: Positive environments where children can flourish (Ofsted, 2021)

• Guidance: Use of reasonable force in schools (DfE, 2013)

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

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

• Report: Ethnic disproportionality in the identification of Special Educational Needs (SEN) in England: Extent, causes and consequences (University of Oxford & ESRC, 2018)

• Research Report: Area SEND framework: findings from the first 2 years of inspections (Ofsted, 2025)

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

• Research Report: Speech and language therapy intervention... (IJL&CD, 2011)

• Research Review: SEND Evidence Review (EEF, March 2020)

• Website: Speech, language and communication needs: the invisible or hidden disability (RCSLT)

• Website: Education outcomes for white working class pupils (Star Academies)

• 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)

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

• Blog: Is 'Progress 8' a level playing field? The effect of SEND (Linkedin, 2025)

• Video: Promoting Better Behaviour and Safety in English Schools (Edurio, 2025)

• Video: Pupil Wellbeing Webinar (Edurio, 2025)

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

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

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

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

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

• Video: Why might different children with SEND fail maths and what are the implications on teaching practice? (ELRS)

• Video: Autistic play: A neurodiversity-affirming approach (ELRS)

• Video: SEND Joint Area Inspections (Ofsted, 2021)

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

• Video: SEND and the curriculum (Ofsted, 2019)

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

• Video: 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)

• [20] Online SEND CPD units (Whole School SEND, free course - requires login)

• 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)