The Value of a Mainstream Educational Environment for Children with Moderate and Mild Learning Needs
Riverston School The value of a mainstream educational environment for children with moderate and mild learning needs September 2021 During our many years of operation, at Riverston School we have come across a…
Finding the Right Candidate for SEND Role
One of the biggest challenges facing schools and senior management teams is finding the right staff to fill their vacancies. Most departments simply don’t have the time and resources to sift through hundreds…
Senploy is UK’s first jobs site for special educational needs sector
(advertorial) Manchester charity worker launches website to nurture talent and cut recruitment costs Senploy, the UK’s first recruitment website dedicated to uniting prospective employers and candidates within the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND)…
Changing lives with Special iApps
Tablets and smartphones are a way of life for children in the second decade of the 21st Century – but how much screen time is healthy? As the debate continues about giving young…
Nationwide training launched to close safeguarding loophole around UK’s most vulnerable children
For the first time ever, taxi drivers can access nationwide standardised training to improve pupil safeguarding for children with special educational needs. The fully accredited online programme by Spectrum Courses offers taxi drivers…
How Special Education Teachers Can Incorporate Technology into the Classroom
The special education industry is quite a demanding marketplace. Not only are there the typical needs of educating young people that apply to any learning environment, there are also the compounding effects of…
£500,000 scholarship scheme launched for SEN support staff
Hundreds of school support staff are to get degree-level and specialist training in helping children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), under a new £500,000 programme set out today by Children’s Minister…
Leadership In Outstanding Special Schools
Leadership in Outstanding Special Schools DR MIC CAROLAN Having spent two years in a northern local authority as the education officer including Special education (which then included seven special schools, the EWO service,…