This 45-minute presentation, with a particular focus on the importance of SEND leadership, is split into 3 parts:
- Future: Establishing your SEND strategy, based on evidence of what works for students with SEND
- Engage: Working effectively with stakeholders to achieve effective implementation
- Deliver: The systems and processes needed to evaluate the quality of your provision and deliver your strategy
Three Learning Outcomes
- The importance of accurate self-evaluation when setting your strategic direction for SEND
- How to prioritise key actions to maximise the impact of your SEND strategy
- That great SEND provision is attainable when schools keep their approach simple and do a few things really well.
Great inclusion provision is about ensuring that we are able to support any child in their journey through our education system
David Bartram OBE, Director, Prescient Education
David Bartram
About the speaker:
David Bartram OBE, Director, Prescient Education
David has led special educational needs and disability provision (SEND) in London schools for over 15 years. He was a member of the Department for Education’s SEND Review steering group and an expert advisor to the Timpson Review on school exclusions. David has worked directly with over seven hundred school leadership teams across the UK to improve their SEND provision.
David is author of the SEND Review Guide, a national framework funded by the DfE. In 2018 he edited Great Expectations, Leading an Effective SEND Strategy in School, published by John Catt Educational. He was Director of SEND at the London Leadership Strategy and an advisor to the Mayor of London’s education team. As part of his international work he has supported the development of Inclusion policy in a number of countries including Ethiopia, Seychelles, Thailand and Malaysia. David is Education Director of EvaluateMySchool, a member of the Education Policy Institute Advisory Board and a trustee of the KPMG Foundation, which seeks to bring about systemic change in business and society and unlock the potential of the most disadvantaged children in the UK.
David was awarded an OBE for Services to Special Education in the 2016 New Year's Honours list.
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