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Evaluate and strengthen your school’s Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) provision with a structured deep dive toolkit designed to align inclusive practice directly with your school improvement plan. Build a robust, evidence-informed strategy that addresses provision gaps, ensures statutory compliance, and improves outcomes for every pupil.
Are you confident that your SEND practices and procedures consistently meet pupils’ needs in an inclusive way, supported by clear policies aligned to your school improvement plan?
This comprehensive SEND Deep Dive Toolkit helps you take a structured, evidence-informed look at what is working well, pinpointing where provision can be strengthened, and identifying high-priority actions that will make the biggest difference across your setting.
How does this SEND deep dive toolkit work?
By working systematically through a series of areas of SEND provision and completing a rating exercise on your current performance in each area, you will finish the process with a much clearer view of where your SEND provision currently sits, along with clarity of your path forward for improvement.
The deep dive is split into several areas for self-reflection:
By reflecting on each of these areas, you will build a clear, evidence-informed picture of what is working well and what needs strengthening, with practical prompts to help you triangulate what you see in policy, practice and pupil outcomes.
The rating exercise supports honest self-evaluation, encourages consistency in approach across leaders and staff, and helps you identify any gaps between intent, implementation and impact.
School Impact
At the end of the deep dive, you will have a short set of prioritised actions you can align to your school improvement plan, alongside clear ‘quick wins’ and longer-term development points. This makes it easier to demonstrate a coherent, whole-school SEND strategy to governors, parents and external partners, and provides a strong foundation for review meetings, resource planning and preparation for inspection.
Further Support and Guidance
If you complete this deep dive and feel it raises questions about the appropriate next steps, do get in touch, as Services For Education can help! We have a range of training modules on our website suitable for upskilling staff at all levels, as well as downloadable resources for use in schools. We also offer bespoke SEND Consultancy and support in schools to meet your specific needs. For more information, contact us here.
Claire Steele - Adviser, Services For Education
With over 20 years of experience in primary education, Claire Steele is a respected and committed school leader who has worked across a diverse range of schools and multi-academy trusts.
Her previous roles include Assistant Principal, Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL), SENCo, and Senior Mental Health and Wellbeing Lead. She has also worked extensively with partners to support the delivery of a wide range of National Professional Qualifications (NPQs). Claire also holds the NPQSL, NPQLTD and NPQSENCO.
Claire is deeply passionate about creating safe, inclusive, and nurturing school environments, where the well-being of pupils is at the heart of practice. She brings her extensive knowledge, dedication, and enthusiasm to Services For Education, supporting schools in embedding effective and compassionate safeguarding and SEND practices at every level.
As part of the team of advisers at Services For Education, Claire champions SEND and equality, ensuring these values remain central to all aspects of her work. Most recently, she has developed the newly launched SEND offer from Services For Education. She also delivers high-quality safeguarding training and conducts comprehensive safeguarding audits in schools.
