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Training:

Accessibility Planning: Opportunities and Implications for SI practice.  Exploring the 2025 DfE guidance for schools

Date:

Tuesday 25 March 2025

Time:

13:30 - 15:45

 We were pleased to welcome 63 delegates and speakers at the online training event on 25 March 2025.

 Under discussion was the recently published Department of Education and Council for Disabled Children updated guidance to support schools to understand their responsibilities inrelation to children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and to empower governors and trustees to hold their schools to account.

Our keynote speaker was Philippa  OBE, who is working with DfE, as a CDC Associate, on a set of Equality Act guides for future publication.  

Other speakers included:

  • Brian Lamb (NatSIP)
  • Caireen Sutherland (Seashell Trust)
  • Joanne Hogg (Lead QTVI for Sheffield VI Service)
  • Ruth Crosby-Stewart (Head of Services for Middlesborough STARS, the Sensory Support Service across four neighbouring LAs).

The following presentations are available:

In addition, as Lindsey Rousseau mentioned during the training, NatSIP is pleased to be an engagement partner for the DfE's Inclusion in Practice project.  There is a short presentation available about the project and an invitation to submit examples of effective practice where specialist expertise has supported inclusive practice in mainstream schools.

As contributors from our partner organisations Guide Dogs and NDCS, we were joined by