Our Framing SEND Intersectionally Training
Our Framing SEND Intersectionally Training
Our Training Offer
We support SEND specialists, school/ trust leaders and governors/ trustees in ensuring that their SEND strategy is intersectional.
By developing consciousness, confidence and competence around diverse identities we can ensure that SEND approaches are inclusive of all identities.
We can deliver face to face and virtually, for twilights, INSETs and conferences.
We will create a safe, but brave, space for you to explore the barriers and the solutions to strategic problems that are impacting your SEND policy and practice.
Our Training Session Includes
- Reviewing your current approach to SEND as a parallel strategy to your DEIB approach
- Considering what an intersectional lens on SEND looks like for all stakeholders
- Ensuring that your staff are conscious, confident and competent in their approaches to SEND
- Identifying the multi-layered barriers that some learners and their families are navigating in having their needs met
- Navigating societal and systemic barriers impacting the SEND system
- Culturally specific barriers to SEND identification and diagnosis including the role of cultural and religious frameworks in understanding disability and need
- Family and community trust deficits to work better with those who have historical or lived reasons to distrust institutions
- Language, communication and SEND, specifically the frequent misidentification or under-identification of EAL learners for SEND
- Addressing practitioner bias and unconscious assumptions of staff bringing unintended bias into their SEND practice
- Supporting leaders to interrogate their own data through intersectional lenses.
The session was interactive and thought provoking.
Denise H Wint, Careers Advisor
A truly captivating session where marginalised groups no longer hide in the shadows awaiting recognition and belonging. They are brought to light and given the voice they so deserve.
Katie Jade Evans, trainee teacher, SWIFT
We continue to work with The Belonging Effect as the training is always high quality and impactful. The speakers are engaging and create a safe space to explore and ask questions about practice.
Amy Cooper, ISTIP
The training is fantastic, well-led and thoroughly thought-provoking to challenge your own world view, as well as what shared experiences you will have with your colleagues.
Dean Ismay, GMB Union