Colin Crehan, Headmaster, Holy Trinity Catholic School, Birmingham

Colin 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

Defining inclusion is as complex as the education system. This session looks at how schools, colleges and settings are taking action now, making changes that work for their learners. A reasonable adjustment or defining what should be ‘ordinarily available’ for all? Consider the key influencers, how local networks can make a difference, empowering and collaborative nature of inclusion by design.

This session will include insights from: A nasen community of over 100,000, the ‘Universal SEND Services’ programme of training and CPD for schools and colleges; alongside the recent nasen led ‘1000 voices’ study, representing the views of SENCOs.

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, Colin Crehan, Headmaster, Holy Trinity Catholic School, Birmingham

This session will focus on how Holy Trinity Catholic School has developed a culture of inclusion. The challenges and rewards of being a genuinely inclusive school will be explored by the Headmaster, Colin Crehan.

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.