By Press Release
A new on-line portal aims to provide teachers and support staff with a wide range of resources and e-training opportunities to support children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).
The Transforming Education portal is a one-stop-shop resource hub featuring specialist SEND courses, SEN toolkits, newsletters as well as helpful information for parents and carers — all free to schools to access. Bringing all the council’s SEND resources together in one central place for schools to access was a priority for Naomi Carter following her appointment as service director for education, inclusion and access earlier this year.
She said: “School leaders are telling us that schools are becoming more complex in terms of the things they’re dealing with, from social care to safeguarding issues, and one of our number one priorities is special educational needs. We have set up an on-line portal to host all of our resources related to the transformation work we’re doing around the education system; we’re hoping Island schools will access these resources to help meet the needs of more complex learners.”
Jane Wilford, headteacher at Wootton Primary School, said: “Having a platform we can tap into, to find information as well as undergo training, will better equip us to support every child in our classrooms.”
Councillor Jonathan Bacon, Cabinet member for children’s services, added: “We hope the Transforming Education portal will provide a one-stop-shop, with rich and useful resource for all across our school system. This will help us to achieve our vision for education across the Island as we: Create Change Together.”
