Ben Solly, Principal, Uppingham Community College, Rutland

Ben will outline the premise behind a whole school inclusive culture, followed by a full workshop in the afternoon.

Margaret Mulholland, SEN and Inclusion Specialist

Building the confidence and competence of teachers and leaders to work with a diversity and complexity of learners and school environments. This session will support you to clear a path to strengthen inclusive teaching and learning.

Martyn Owen, SEND Transformation Lead, Doncaster

The presentation will provide a summary of the work that Doncaster local partnership have developed through the ‘Delivering Better Value’ process. It will reflect upon what our analysis showed us about the local system, how this affects settings and how we are working together to improve the local system, ensuring a more sustainable and equitable way of working.

Annamarie Hassall MBE, Chief Executive and Chair of Whole School SEND, nasen

Annamarie Hassall is Chief Executive of. nasen – the national association for special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) the leading membership charity that exists to champion, connect and support those working in the education community - from the early years to schools, post-16, specialist schools and wider settings ,with and for children and young people with SEND and learning differences

SESSION A: Getting it right from the start; The SEND and AP Plan, what you need to know, Julie Mellor, SEND Consultant 

A practical workshop to consider how to offer the right support at the right time for young children

SESSION B: Organisation, successes and challenges of an LA funded alternative provision nurture hub within a mainstream setting, Craig Charteris, CEO, Brooke Hill Academy Trust

Craig will share the structure, ethos and operation of the ‘Nest’, an alternative provision for children struggling in primary mainstream settings. How this provision fits in with the SEND AP plan and vision for local authority provision. We will cover the structure, ethos and operation of the provision as well as the outreach service providing strategies that are offered to schools to support children at risk of exclusion

SESSION C: Developing a culture of inclusion in a secondary school, Ben Solly, Principal, Uppingham Community College, Rutland

This session will focus on how Uppingham Community College has developed a culture of inclusion. The challenges and rewards of being a genuinely inclusive school will be explored by the Principal, Ben Solly.

SESSION D: Supported Internships - what makes work, work for young people with SEND? Helen Hodgson, Associate, NDTI and Paul Harper, Associate, NDTI

Employment rates nationally for people with a learning disability remain abysmally low at under 5%. Supported internships give young people with an EHCP the chance to develop their skills in the workplace and prove their value to employers. This workshop will illustrate with case studies how such young people can transition successfully into gainful employment, reducing education "recycling" and potential burdens on children's and adult services.

Dr Geraldine Codina, Associate Professor of Inclusion and Special Educational Needs and Disability (ISEND), University of Derby

Having acknowledged in the SEND Review (2022) that the system is failing to deliver for children, young people and their families, the need for hope and inspiration has arguably never been greater. This session will focus on examples of inspiring inclusive practice, the kind of practice that inspires SENCOs and teachers to embed a change in their own setting be that big or small, whole school or for one child.