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nasen LIVE 2025 - Agenda

The nasen Live 2025 agenda is jam-packed with seminars and panels tailored to the needs of SENCOs, Teaching Professionals, Parents and Carers. With sessions delivered by sector specialists and thought leaders, you won’t want to miss out on this incredible opportunity to learn more about the latest trends and insights. View the full agenda today!

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Photograph of a delegate reading nasen LIVE brochure. Taken July 2023
Time Main Room Seminar Room 1 Seminar Room 2
08:30 - 09:30 Registration
09:30 - 10:00 Welcome and Opening Address - nasen CEO Annamarie Hassall MBE    
10:10 - 10:50

Panel: Practical Ways to Promote Independence

Daniel Nicholls, Libby Lines, Sarah Watson & Simon Kitchen

Whole-School Provision for Multilingual Learners Who Use EAL and Have SEND

Katherine Solomon

A Lived Experience: Practical Advice for Educators Supporting Autistic Children & Young People

Joe Fautley

10:50 - 11:10 Refreshment Break/ Exhibition Browsing
11:10 - 11:50

Evaluating the Use of Flexible Seating in a Mainstream Primary School for Neurotypical and Neurodivergent Pupils

Heba Al-Jayoosi

Panel: From School Independence: Insights from Young People With SEND

Alison Betts, AJ Marsland, Byron Davies, CJ Haughey, Dylan Morris, Jonathon Wiltshire & Lizzie Allen

'Closer, not Further Away': Engagement, Inclusion and Virtual Education

Paul Keenleyside

12:00 - 12:40

Developing Effective Internal Specialist Provision / Additional Resourced Provision within Mainstream Schools

Natalie Packer

Panel: Learning from Lived Experience

J Grange, Joe Fautley, lan Bellamy, Louise Linehan & Sam Baines

Action Research and Lesson Study for Inclusion and SEND

Geraldene Codina

12:40 - 13:20 Lunch (provided) / Exhibition Browsing
13:20 - 14:00

Inclusive Leadership and Management Malcolm Reeve

Effective CPD and How nasen Can Help

Deb Jumar, Lorretta Jones & Zoe Mather

Follow the Empathy Road

Ginny Bootman

14:10 - 14:50

Children Needing Specialist Provision in Mainstream Schools

Tim Coulson

What Good Co-production Looks and Feels Like

Kierran Pearce

Pull Up a Chair: Learning from the Voices of Children and Young People Excluded from School

Sarah Martin-Denham

14:50 - 15:10 Refreshment Break/ Exhibition Browsing
15:10 - 15:50

Culturally Responsive Practice: Why It's Time to Broaden Our Horizons

Sanum Khan

How Did the Whole School SEND Professional Development Group Grow Agency and Expertise in Our MAT?

Alison Parr

Support, Not Surveillance: The Impact of FASST at Esteem MAT

Clive Lawrence

16.00 - 16.30

Panel: The Use of Technology to Promote Independence and Learning - Main Room

André Skepple, Harvey Sarai, Matthew Setchell, Michelle Reid & Zoe Mather