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Getting inclusion right is essential. It means creating a school environment where all students feel welcome, valued and supported to achieve. But, with the Department for Education (DfE) planning major SEND reforms, it’s easy for SENCOs to feel overwhelmed and increasingly under pressure. 

We have tools to help SENCOs manage their workload and give every student the support they need to thrive. 

Our SEND management software, Provision Map, gives you the power to document, review, and track learning plans and interventions quickly and simply, while our training packages mean all staff can be up-to-date and support students with confidence. 

In this article, we look at five areas where we help you get inclusion right.

1. Planning provision 

Creating an effective support provision plan starts with gathering the right details about a student's strengths, needs and aspirations. 

With Provision Map, you can add and track all the information you need and store it in one place, speeding up the process and cutting down on paperwork.

This means one centralised record rather than scattered paperwork – enabling you to find what you need in less time.

2. Improving collaboration with other staff

Provision Map makes it easy to share information about students quickly and securely, which means everyone involved in supporting a student can contribute to reviews of support provision – and this can be adjusted to students' needs as they evolve. 

The platform’s School Robins feature automatically collates feedback from staff members in a simple, searchable format, which can be printed in a single report for reference. You can see which staff members have replied to your information request and send instant reminders to those who haven’t. 

Provision Map’s built-in Goal Attainment Scaling also simplifies the tracking of student progress, so staff members can easily identify areas for improvement and evaluate the effectiveness of interventions. 

3. Collaborating with parents and other professionals 

Provision Map helps you collaborate with parents and other professionals by making it easier to share information and updates externally as well as internally. 

Through Provision Map, you can invite parents and other professionals to give feedback and contribute to planning and review of provision plans – ensuring that every voice is included. 

This is especially important in supporting you to work in line with the , with strong partnerships with families and wider services being one of these. 

4. Getting serious about safeguarding 

Provision Map integrates with our safeguarding software MyConcern to give you a fuller picture. The integration enables you to: 

• View SEND plans and interventions alongside safeguarding context 

• See safeguarding concerns alongside behaviour patterns and SEND context 

• Identify risk earlier through clearer patterns 

• Understand situations in context, not as isolated events 

• Build richer evidence to support decisions and reviews 

• Reduce admin by linking information across teams 

We know that SEND and safeguarding needs rarely exist in isolation. And we know that to keep students safe, you need the full picture – so you can act earlier, share information more effectively and make decisions with greater confidence.

5. Taking a proactive approach to training 

Our Safeguarding Training courses include content to help you identify and support students with additional needs, as well as courses on adaptive teaching and – so all staff at your school can support students with confidence.

With the government extending the QTS mandate for local authority-maintained schools to academies, it’s more important than ever that all your teachers have QTS and can provide all students with the support they need to thrive. 

ÌÇÐÄVlog Institute provides a range of courses for unqualified and qualified teachers – including a Straight to Teaching SEND course designed for unqualified teachers working in SEND settings.

Give all students the support they need

With Provision Map, SENCOs can save 20% of their time and SLT can get back 3 weeks of their time – plus, 100% of our schools have seen a positive impact on Ofsted feedback after implementing Provision Map! 

Read our free guide to how schools use Provision Map to learn how it can help you give all students the support they need.

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Originally published 3 June 2024