SENDCOs

Further resources

Transition for Children with SEND

Dimensions Tool

The Dimensions of Health and Wellbeing is a free accessible locally developed online tool that provides a personalised profile and information to support adults, children and young people in Coventry and Warwickshire.

Coventry guidance for SENCos: My Support Plans

SEN Inclusion Fund (EYFS SEND) relevant documentation

Coventry support services and training links

Coventry School Nursing

The Coventry School Nursing Team have created several videos that they would urge schools to share with parents who are facing issues with the following:

  • Anxiety (youtube.com) This session provides information on how to best support your child if they are struggling with anxiety. It gives a brief understanding of why the child is feeling anxious and offers advice and practical strategies to help combat how they are feeling and to build emotional resilience. The session runs for just over 26 minutes and includes a relaxation story you can listen to with your child.
  • Challenges in Eating (youtube.com) Challenges with eating can be a very normal part of childhood, however can be very distressing for parents. In this session, we explore techniques and strategies to encourage your child not only to eat, but to eat the right foods and to promote their body to be healthy. The session runs for just under 20 minutes and includes other resources to help promote healthy eating with your child.
  • Sleep (youtube.com) This session focuses on providing techniques to improve your child’s ability to fall asleep. It focuses on bedtime and the lead up to it and also offers information on how to help if they wake during the night. The session runs for just under 23 minutes
  • Toileting (youtube.com) This 20-minute-long session discusses all aspects of toileting. This includes daytime wetting, nighttime wetting, soiling, toilet training and much more. The session is designed to lead you through the best ways to promote effective toileting with your child- these techniques are simple and easy to implement, however vital in helping children overcome these struggles. 
  • Behaviour - YouTube When children misbehave it can be a source of considerable stress for parents. When this is constant it can make life very difficult. In this session, which runs for just over 24 minutes, we provide coping strategies and techniques to help guide children towards choosing better behaviour, we talk about how to implement them and answer some frequently asked questions to try and support you in helping your child to choose better behaviour.

These videos are also available on the www.healthforkids.co.uk in the 'Grown-ups' section.

This is the most up to date Coventry School Nursing referral form

Coventry Speech and Language Therapy Team

The Speech and Language Therapy Team in Coventry have created some videos sharing information and ideas around their frequently used approaches. Take a look at strategies and activity ideas. 

See details of Coventry Children's Speech and Language Therapy universal training sessions. These sessions are free of charge for professionals working in settings within Coventry. Schools and settings can also buy in additional speech, language and communication training from the NHS from Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Partnership Trust (CWPT).

Coventry and Warwickshire Occupational Therapy

Advice in mini guides/quick reads:  'Attention in the Classroom' and 'Movement in the Classroom'

SEND

The SEND Local Offer brings together information about the local services and support available across education, health and social care for families with children and young people aged 0 to 25, who have special educational needs and/or disabilities

SENCO NPQ

NASEN

Whole School SEND

Whole School SEND

Teacher Handbook: SEND | Whole School SEND

SENsible SENCO

Join Thousands of Members Benefiting from SENsible SENCO 

Starting in September, SENsible SENCo are introducing a series of new sessions designed specifically for SENCOs, Heads, Governors, and TAs: SENsibleSENCO

SEND Network

An online CPD library, collaboration spaces, SEND discussions and articles, downloadable resources to support SENCOs. Free to subscribe with access to the above- option to become a premium member at a cost for greater access to training videos and courses.

Chiltern Teaching School Hub

Creative Education

Special Needs Jungle

Special Needs Jungle - News, info, resources & informed opinion about Special Educational Needs, disability, children’s physical and mental health, rare disease. Campaigning to #FixSEND

Schoot

Schoot is a subscription based, online platform, designed to inspire successful educators through on-demand, high-quality training and opportunities for collaboration with other primary, special and secondary schools: Training Catalogue 

Beacon School Support

Positive Young Minds

A place for teachers, SENCOs, parents and children to find support with inclusion, SEND, wellbeing and mental health: SENCO Resources - Positive Young Minds 

High Speed Training

Amazing Things Project

Short videos to share with children to help understand different needs:- 

#ImWithSam: raising awareness of learning disabilities and autism : Mentally Healthy Schools

This lesson plan, for students aged 11 to 13, aims to give students a better understanding of learning disabilities and autism, and the impact of potential bullying and discrimination.

Learning about neurodiversity at school (LEANS) : Mentally Healthy Schools

A free curriculum introducing pupils aged 8-11 years to the concept of neurodiversity, and help them explore how it impacts experiences at school.

What is neurodiversity? videos for children : Mentally Healthy Schools

Two simple animations for children which look at different ways brains work and explain how we may all differ in our behaviours and understanding of the world. The videos are very short and simple, and could be used as part of a wider discussion about neurodiversity - for example for Neurodiversity Celebration Week.

Curriculum

Whole School SEND Webinar: Curriculum design: access and ambition for all:

This webinar recording explores why it is important for all children to have access to an ambitious curriculum and how schools and colleges can ensure that their curriculum is ambitious and accessible. The training addresses why it is important for all children to have access to an ambitious curriculum, why it is important to know or master certain content and what do I really need to do, how you ensure that the curriculum is accessible and that the curriculum content prepares the CYP for the next stage. 

Inclusion 2024 Inclusive PE hub This site has lots of support for you as teachers or school staff to review and improve your inclusive physical education and school sport delivery. It is all made possible through the Department of Education funded, Inclusion 2024 project.

Whole School SEND Webinar: Early Identification of Needs

This webinar recording supports you in developing effective systems and processes to enable the early and accurate identification of SEN in your setting.  It offers strategies to enable you to use national SEND data to support identification systems in your own settings, and includes discussion on how the pandemic has impacted on the development of CYP, and consequently the identification of SEN in education settings 

NASEN SEND Leadership Series:

 A chance to learn more about and reflect on leadership of SEND. Covers 1. Foundations in Leadership 2. Distributed Leadership of SEND 3. SEND: Legacy of Leadership 

Writing an EHCP

Accessing children’s ‘voices’ on what matters to them

Twilight Talks Research Series: Accessing children’s ‘voices’ on what matters to them: An overview of the research and recommended practices | Nasen This session will provide a wide-ranging overview of the research evidence available on how the ‘voices’ of children are currently being captured in their Education Health and Care plans. In addition, recommended practices for accessing children and young people’s perspectives on the support that is provided to them will be presented and critically examined. At the end of this session, participants should be able to critically identify concrete strategies to enable children’s ‘voice’ for statutory and non-statutory purposes, as well as barriers and facilitators to be considered in that process.
Graduated Approach Prompt | Nasen A useful tool for EYFS, primary, secondary and post-16 settings. This resource is designed to help teachers work their way through the graduated approach for those pupils that haven’t necessarily yet been identified with SEN but for whom there are initial concerns.

Visual timetables

Home - Inclusion Expert

Inclusion Expert provides targeted training, consultancy and resources to help schools achieve outstanding inclusion practice.

Information for neurodivergent people and their families - Happy Healthy Lives

This e-booklet created by the Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care System aims to bring together the different information and advice offered locally. The E-booklet was produced by professionals from different organisations, neurodivergent people and their families. It provides useful information about services and support available for those who are diagnosed or who self-identify as neurodivergent and those who care for and support them.

CASS Sessions for school based professionals

Pre-recorded, on demand sessions; just click below to get immediate access.

Training opportunities from Coventry Mind

Some future events and past recorded webinars: Coventry and Warwickshire Mind - Children and Young People's Services Events

Nip in the Bud | Child Mental Health Resources for Parents and Teachers

'Nip in the Bud' has a brilliant website full of straightforward, quick reads, short videos and podcasts covering a range of needs. 

  • Films for Teachers / Professionals A range of short films and accompanying fact sheets.
  • Podcasts Nip in the Bud have created over 20 podcasts covering a wide range of SEND topics. Sessions vary in length and more will be added regularly. 
  • Blog Blogs written by experts covering a range of SEND topics.

Helpful list of charities and organisations that may be helpful for school staff and parents/ carers: Where to Get Help | Nip in the Bud | Child Mental Health Awareness Charity

'When The Adults Change' Resources and Courses

Behaviour Training: 

Behaviour Change Course | WhenTheAdultsChange

Behaviour Change for Leaders | WhenTheAdultsChange

Early Years Behaviour Change Course | WhenTheAdultsChange

Behaviour Change Course for FE | WhenTheAdultsChange

Parent Coach Course | WhenTheAdultsChange

WTAC Publications: BOOKS | WhenTheAdultsChange

WTAC Positive Noticing Day

WTAC Quick Reads

WTAC have lots of short blogs to help with practice in school and/or time for reflection on how we do things in our schools: OUR NEWS | WhenTheAdultsChange

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