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What every Inclusion Lead/Director of SEND should know this Spring? Read the very latest summary on DfE and Ofsted agenda’s In this more difficult SEN climate where MATs are having to provide s […]

Help! I have a Y7 Needing an EHCP As someone working in middle and secondary schools, I was by no means the first person to have come across a child yet I was often […]

Who Should Be On My SEND Register? Sounds like a simple question doesn’t it? To be on the SEND register, a student should have SEND. In practice however, things a […]

Wellbeing…Sometimes seen as the current buzzword or tokenistic however I believe this comes from it being “done” as a tickbox exercise.

Having worked in a leadership role where wellbeing was my core respo […]

Supporting SEND school transition. Moving from primary school to secondary is something that (nearly) all of us experience. I say ‘nearly’ because I live in Bedfordshire and we have lower, middle and upper sch […]

How to Streamline your EHCP requests.

“I’ve spent two whole days on this”“It’s taken me hours to collate all the evidence and format it into the Local Authority’s form”“I have to wait until I’ve got two te […]

The first month of the new academic year is over and SENCOs across the country will have been getting to grips with all of the SEND challenges that they will face over the next twelve months.

Whether you are […]

Click on the link below to read the article on Lorraine Petersen’s website:

Ten top tips to improve your child’s speech at home:-

Make a list of the sounds your child is confusing  eg they say ‘tea’ for ‘sea’ so ‘s’ is confused.  They say ‘Jojjy’ for ‘lolly’ so ‘l’ is confused.Make […]

When will the Schools White Paper, SEND Green Paper and Independent Reviews of Children’s Social Care be published?

It has been a very challenging and difficult two years and schools have continuously p […]

Many parents/carers are starting to evaluate the effects of the pandemic on their pre-schoolers.  With the lack of preschool/nursery experience setting them up for the school, this is turning into one of the […]

As everyone was enjoying their half-term break the government announced a further £1.4bn to support COVID recovery in schools this which breaks down to £50 extra per pupil per year. The majority of this a […]

As we approach the milestone of one year since the country went into its first lock-down due to the global pandemic I thought it would be useful to consider what this has meant for pupils with special educational […]

Who could have imagined that as they went on holiday in December, schools would be back in January trying to figure out what they were supposed to be doing? 

The requirement to open up testing centres in all […]

Lorraine Petersen has compared this document with the mainstream one that was updated on 28th August and has indicated the additional information for specialist settings.

Purpose of this guidance

In […]

1. Work closely with parent carers in everything that you are planning. For many students their parent carers have taken on the extended role of teacher, therapist, support worker and much more for nearly half a […]

Supporting your Child's development Sharing one more activity with you all before we break up for the Summer (phew we made it!). Activity: Teaching inferences from […]

It’s to be expected that given this global pandemic you might be looking to reevaluate your Speech and Language Therapy service model to ensure you have secured the most flexible solutions for your ever c […]

During this period of lockdown Integrated Treatment
Services has been able to readily support all of our education and care
settings across the UK, with uninterrupted therapy services.

We have also been able […]