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Identifying and addressing staff development needs around SEND
Use our questionnaire to identify your staff's development needs around SEND and get their views on your provision to drive improvements. Get advice on how to address these development needs, and see how one school is doing this in their setting.
Contents
Download our staff questionnaire on SEND
Use our staff questionnaire to:
- Audit staff knowledge of the Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Code of Practice
- Collect staff views on your school’s special educational needs (SEN) provision
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You could use this alongside our template to audit your school's SEND provision.
Use CPD to address gaps and have staff do self-audits
Use the results of the staff questionnaire above to inform future staff CPD around SEND.
You could run training on aspects of SEND that staff are less familiar with, or make an information sheet where an aspect of the school's policy has changed, for example.
Share our downloadable handout on the SEND Code of Practice for teaching staff, to help them understand their responsibilities under the code.
Ask for the opinion of pupils and parents
- Additional needs register: templates and advice
- Auditing inclusion provision
- Auditing SEND provision
- Deploying TAs effectively: pupils with EHC plans
- How to use assistive technology to support your pupils
- Local offer: what you need to know
- National data on SEN
- Pupils with SEND: lesson planning audit Updated
- Removing a pupil from the SEND register
- Running high-quality SEN provision
- SENCO handover: template
- SENCO's year planner
- SEND Code of Practice: a summary
- SEND provision: requirements and best practice audit
- SEND register: template and advice
- SEN provision in the EYFS: requirements
- SEN provision mapping
- SEN provision: role of teaching staff
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