Useful SEND web links

SEND Directory

Special school and alternative provision offer

Special educational needs and disability code of practice: 0 to 25 years DfE

Ealing family directories

SEN support: research evidence on effective approaches and examples of current practice in good and outstanding schools and colleges (DfE)

Evidence for impact

Whole school SEND

Young Minds

Teaching and learning

• Autism education trust (AET)
• National Autistic Society (NAS)
• Differentiation (NASEN)

Teaching Assistants

• Making best use of TAs (Education Endowment Foundation)
• Dual and Multiple Exceptionality (NASEN)
• Interventions for literacy
• Dyslexia Action training courses
• The Communication Trust – What Works
• SRA ‘Spelling through Morphographs’
• NASEN SpLD

Primary maths interventions

• What Works for Children with Mathematical Difficulties? (DfE)
• Numicon: Making maths real impact study
• Catch-up Numeracy
• Response to intervention (Rtl)
• National centre for excellence in teaching mathematics (NCETM)

Social Emotional and mental health needs

Measuring and monitoring children and young people’s mental wellbeing: A toolkit for schools and colleges

Education Endowment Foundations evidence summaries:

• Behaviour Interventions
• Social and emotional learning
• Parental engagement

Girls with Autism: Flying under the radar (NASEN)

Coventry Grid

What works in developing children’s Emotional and Social Competence and Wellbeing?

Anna Freud Centre- free resource for parental engagement

Special and alternative provision offer

Organisations in working with parents, carers and families in Ealing include:

• Ealing Parent Carer Forum
• I SAID!
• Contact a family
• PESTS (parents in Ealing self-help training scheme)

Other sources of advice and examples of effective practice

• Education Endowment Foundation Research and commentary on approaches to parental engagement – updated September 2018
• Review of best practice in parental engagement (DfE) A review of studies of interventions that support and improve parental engagement in the education of children aged 5 to 19 years old. (2011)
• Rowntree Report 2007 detailing barriers to engagement and inclusion