Seminars and Panels

Accessibility planning that drives inclusion, not just compliance

Ever feel like accessibility plans need improvement?
This session helps you to see what goes wrong and how things can be better.
You’ll be clear on how to lead, deliver or monitor your accessibility planning so that you see a real change in inclusion.

An introduction to Specific Learning Difficulties in Maths and Dyscalculia

The seminar will cover definitions, context, co-occurrence maths anxiety, and indicators to look out for in the classroom. It will include information on the use of checklists and screening tools, the diagnostic process and assessment for intervention. It will include an overview of teaching intervention strategies for the classroom

Assistive Technology in Primary Schools: From Classroom Tools to Strategic Impact

This session examines how assistive technology can enhance pedagogy in primary schools, shifting from an add-on resource for SEND to a core teaching tool. It supports both teachers and leaders in planning sustainable implementation and offers practical strategies for purposeful classroom integration, guided by reflection, practical strategy and case studies.

Beyond Readiness: High Expectations and Literacy for Every Learner

This session explores why meaningful, progressive, age-respectful literacy education is an entitlement for every pupil, including those with complex needs and non-speaking learners. We examine how expectations shape opportunity, what inclusive literacy looks like in practice, how barriers can be removed, and how partnership with families strengthens progress.

From Barriers to Breakthroughs: Turning Tricky Parent Meetings into Powerful Partnerships

This powerful speaker session introduces the VOICE framework — a clear, memorable approach to building trust, reducing conflict, and creating calmer, more collaborative partnerships with parents that improve outcomes for every child.

From Missed Needs to Meaningful Support: Strengthening SEND Provision Through Early Intervention and Inclusive Practice

This session will explore the long-term impact of unidentified (SEND) and the systemic challenges that prevent early and effective support in schools.

It will begin by examining how unidentified needs can lead to academic underachievement, school anxiety, exclusion, and poor mental health, with a focus on how behaviour is often misinterpreted as defiance rather than communication of unmet need.

Internal Provision with Purpose

Many settings are now forming internal provision in response to rising need. This session introduces a practical framework to help leaders keep provision purposeful, reviewed and connected to meaningful learning and appropriate next steps.

Ofsted Inspections and Inclusion

This session will present an analysis of findings on inclusion from Ofsted inspections under the new framework.

An overview of all inspections under the new framework in terms of phase and region
Factors which determine the rating a school receives for inclusion

Race, SEND & Intersectionality

This session presents action research examining how race, SEND, and intersectionality shape identification and referral processes. Drawing on literature and staff interviews, it explores systemic bias, trust, leadership, and anti‑racist practice, offering practical reflections on embedding intersectionality into SEND systems and organisational culture.

Shared Expertise, Stronger Schools: A Specialist-Mainstream Collaborative model

Mainstream schools face rising SEND complexity. Matt McArthur (Special School Outreach Lead, Oxfordshire) shares a collaborative model where special schools empower mainstream settings. Discover how shared expertise and specialist Inclusion spaces can transform inclusion and improve outcomes for every child through proven, sustainable practice.

Times of Change? Including all in the joy of reading!

We are working in times of exponential change and yet the four pillars of education i.e. speaking, listening, reading and writing remain the same. 2026 is designated the National Year of Reading but what does this look like for those who need Assistive Technology, of any type, to access printed text? What does this look like for those who require alternative access to books and storytelling? This lively session will be full of practical ideas that you can take away and use in your practice and will cover a range of technologies from low tech, home made resources through tried and tested commercial resources to the power of AI and an exploration of what this can offer to our learners.

What is the Best SEN STRATEGY? It might not be what you think!

With teacher stress at record highs, burned-out educators can't co-regulate the children who need them most. Rowena Hicks reveals why you are the most powerful SEN strategy in your setting, and shares sustainable, low-energy tools to protect your wellbeing while helping students thrive.