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Keep up to date with all of the latest news, headlines and features from across the SEND sector.

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Key Changes in the New DfE Attendance Guidance

August 2024

Effective today, the Department for Education (DfE) has implemented significant updates to school attendance guidance, aimed at enhancing student engagement and reducing absenteeism.

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The Anti-Bullying Alliance: free SEN & Disability Training

August 2024

The Anti-Bullying Alliance has been working with schools and disabled young people to develop strategies and approaches that help to reduce bullying of disabled young people and those with SEN, often referred to as disablist bullying.

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Cut It Back!

August 2024

Sight Loss Councils and Thomas Pocklington Trust are encouraging people to cut back any trees, shrubs or hedges on their property that overhang pavements to help keep them clear for pedestrians and encouraging people to report it.

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Curriculum review to begin in September

July 2024

The incoming government committed to a review of the curriculum and have announced it will begin in September.

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School Exclusions and suspensions data shows large increases

July 2024

The data for suspensions and permanent exclusions in England has been released for 2022/23 and the headline is that all of the figures are the highest annual numbers ever recorded.

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Free event: Attention in Autism – Computerised Progressive Attention Training (CPAT)

Free event for schools and parents. The session is being delivered as part of an impact study which is being led by researchers at the University of Birmingham in collaboration with the Staffordshire Autism Inclusion Team and nasen.

nasen Awards 2024 - shortlist announced

July 2024

Thank you to all of those who sent in their nominations for the nasen Awards 2024. We were hit with an incredible amount of inspiring provisions and individuals this year for our 15 categories. Our shortlist is now published.

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Disabled Children’s Partnership: New report “This is my life: Hear me, help me” 

July 2024

The Disabled Children’s Partnership have published a new report which reveals that inadequate support services for disabled young people across England, are denying them the right to a happy and fulfilling life and threatening their future.

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Absence rates still exceed pre-pandemic levels

July 2024

The latest figures from the Department for Education for absence across all settings shows that there is a slight decrease overall but figures remain higher than pre-pandemic levels.

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New data shows increase in SEND to 18.4%

July 2024

The Department for Education has released the full data on SEND in schools taken from the January census.

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The Sure Breaking Limits Programme resources are the next to gain the ‘Assured by nasen’ Status!

June 2024

The Sure Breaking Limits programme PE & PSHE resources have been confirmed by nasen via the Quality Framework Programme to be curriculum-ready and inclusive of all SEND students.

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Call for pastoral staff to take part in a survey

June 2024

The Regulating Emotions-Strengthening Adolescent Resilience (RE-STAR) research programme aims to cut the risk of adolescent depression, focusing on autistic and ADHD students. 

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New ‘Inclusion Hub’ supporting more inclusive sport for schools

June 2024

Inclusion 2024 aims to increase and improve opportunities for young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) to engage and participate in physical education and school sport.

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Funding for NPQs

June 2024

The Department for Education has announced the funding arrangements for NPQs from Autumn 2024.

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Free resource highlighting best practice in supporting pupils with EAL

June 2024

With more than 1 in 5 primary pupils identified as using English as an additional language, linguistic diversity is a feature of many classrooms.

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FREE Early Years training now available!

May 2024

nasen is proud to be part of the DfE-funded Early Years SEND Partnership Project led by the Council for Disabled Children (CDC).

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Help to shape future research in childhood deafness and hearing loss

May 2024

The National Deaf Children’s Society have teamed up with the University of Manchester, Aston University and Lancaster University, to find out what the research priorities are in childhood deafness, according to the people with real experience.

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Supporting VI learners through the Curriculum Framework – free webinar

The third of a series of webinars from the Royal National Institute for Blind People (RNIB) and VIEW, focusing on how to utilise the Curriculum Framework for Children and Young People with Vision Impairment (CFVI) is to be held online on 6th June 4-5:30pm

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Opportunity for adoptive and special guardianship families (young people aged 12-25) to be heard

Family Routes is a brand-new, ground-breaking study about the lives of teenagers and young adults and their adoptive and special guardianship families.

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The MAT Factor – how MATs are supporting learners with SEND

The NFER have released a paper examining the role of MATs in supporting learners with SEND.