SEND Leadership and Support Resources

New to the SENDCo role or stepping into SEND leadership at a new school? This comprehensive starter pack provides everything you need to establish effective SEND systems and build confidence from day one. Whether you're starting in September or mid-year, these practical tools help you quickly understand your school's current provision, build key relationships and set clear priorities for sustainable improvement.

☑️ 16 ready-to-use, editable templates covering essential areas including audits, action planning, pupil profiles, provision mapping, handover processes and stakeholder communication

☑️ Step-by-step guidance document with your first 30 days mapped out week by week, plus practical advice on adapting to your school context and building relationships

☑️ SEND Jargon Buster reference guide to demystify specialist terminology for you and your staff, ensuring clear communication across the school community

☑️ Quick-start checklists and observation tools for folder organisation, skills auditing, playground and classroom observations, and review meetings

Ideal for new SENDCos, experienced SENCos moving schools, teachers stepping up to SEND leadership roles, and anyone wanting structured guidance and professional templates to establish excellent SEND provision efficiently.

🔎 Want a closer look? Click here to preview the Everything You Need to Lead SEND pack🔗 

Two essential templates to help you create structured, effective support plans for pupils with challenging behaviour.

When a pupil's behaviour needs additional help to manage, you need clear frameworks to assess risk and plan targeted support. This bundle provides you with two robust templates that streamline the process whilst ensuring you capture all the essential information. They're also in line with the April 2026 DfE guidance on the Restrictive interventions, including the use of reasonable force, in schools.

What's included:

• Pupil Behaviour Plan Template - Comprehensive planning document to create individualised support strategies, from identifying triggers to setting measurable targets
• Behaviour Risk Assessment Form - Structured framework to assess potential risks, likelihood and impact, plus space for reduction strategies and monitoring
• Risk Assessment Log - Simple tracking sheet to monitor multiple pupils' risk levels and review dates at a glance

Perfect for:

• SENDCos managing complex behaviour cases
• Behaviour leads developing individual support plans
• Class teachers needing structured approaches for pupils exhibiting challenging behaviours
• Senior leaders ensuring consistent risk assessment processes
• Anyone working with parents, carers and families to support pupils to succeed with behaviour

Both templates include clear guidance, practical examples and prompts, and space for pupil voice, helping you create plans that are thorough and genuinely supportive of pupil wellbeing.

🔒 Fully aligned to the final Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit 2025

Support your school prepare for Ofsted's new School Inspection Toolkit 2025 with this comprehensive Inclusion update pack - everything you need to understand the changes, brief your team, and ensure your school is inspection-ready.

☑️ Staff & Governor Briefing PowerPoint (23 slides) – Ready-to-use presentation covering all new inclusion requirements, from identifying, assessing and meeting needs to support for pupils who face barriers to learning

☑️ Toolkit vs. Handbook Comparison Document – Clear side-by-side analysis of what's changed from the scattered requirements about disadvantaged pupils and pupils with SEND in the old Ofsted framework to the new strengthened requirements in the standalone Inclusion evaluation area, plus the inclusion threads that run across the entire toolkit

☑️ Understanding Ofsted's Toolkit Guide – Easy-to-digest breakdown of the new evaluation criteria, with practical considerations for school leaders who hold responsibility for inclusion

☑️ Leader Action Checklist – Strategic planning tool to help you implement the changes across your school community

☑️ Editable Grade Descriptor Grid – Customisable toolkit reference for your leadership team

Perfect for: Headteachers, SLT members, and anyone responsible for inclusion (such as SENCos, DSLs, designated teachers and pupil premium champions) preparing for Ofsted inspection under the new 2025 School Inspection Toolkit, or wanting to ensure their provision in inclusion meets the latest requirements.

Save hours of research time – we've analysed the new toolkit so you can focus on implementing the changes that matter most for your pupils' outcomes.

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🔒 Fully aligned to the 2026 Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit

🔒 Fully aligned to the 2026 Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit

Ofsted inspection can feel overwhelming when you're a SEND coordinator, especially if you're new to the role or haven't experienced an inspection under the current framework.

Designed specifically for SENDCos, this focused preparation pack translates the 2026 School Inspection Toolkit into practical guidance about your role during inspection. You'll understand when and how you'll engage with inspectors, what questions they're likely to explore and how to demonstrate the excellent inclusion work you're already doing day-to-day.

You'll get:

☑️ SENDCo Inspection Role Guidance – clear explanation of when you'll be involved during inspection, what happens during the inclusion meeting and case sampling, and what inspectors want to understand from you

☑️ Example Ofsted SENDCo Questions – realistic questions you might be asked during your inclusion meeting with inspectors and inclusion learning walks, helping you practise articulating your approach and identify any areas to strengthen

☑️ Further supporting documents – including a leader action checklist to build your inspection knowledge, an inclusion inspection readiness tool to evaluate your current practice against toolkit statements, and editable grade descriptor grids highlighting inclusion across the framework

This Ofsted SENDCo resources pack helps to build your confidence to articulate your work clearly and supports you to prepare effectively without creating unnecessary workload. All templates are fully editable so you can adapt them for your school's specific context and use them as part of your ongoing SEND leadership, not just for inspection preparation.

👉 Looking for further support on preparing for inspection? These resources are also available as part of the full Ofsted Inspection Preparation Pack too.

Are you stepping into the role of Behaviour Lead but wondering where to start or which tasks to prioritise? Firstly, congratulations! And secondly, don't worry – this free Honeyguide checklist will support your thinking right from the start.

As a Behaviour Lead, you have the important task of supporting positive behaviour and culture across your school, something which can feel challenging as you get used to the role. But don't worry, we're here to support you every step of the way with our comprehensive list designed specifically for new Behaviour Leads. Whether you're a newly appointed Behaviour Lead, taking over from a previous postholder, or moving from assistant to lead role, we've outlined key tasks for your first few weeks, half-term and full term to help you feel organised and confident.

🔒 Fully aligned to the April 2026 DfE guidance on restrictive interventions

Get your school compliant with the April 2026 DfE guidance on restrictive interventions with this practical seven-resource pack for headteachers, SENDCos, behaviour leads and pastoral teams. The guidance replaces the 2013 Use of Reasonable Force advice and introduces new statutory recording and reporting duties – this pack helps you understand what has changed, audit your current practice and policy, and get the right systems in place.

You'll get a:

☑️ Leader Action Checklist that works through every area of the guidance – from statutory recording and reporting duties to policy, SEND support, staff training and governing body oversight – so you can identify your most urgent actions and plan your response 

☑️ Policy Checklist to audit your existing policy against the new statutory requirements and identify any gaps before governors are asked to ratify it 

☑️ Behaviour Risk Assessment Form and Pupil Behaviour Support Plan Template to support individual pupils where there is an identified risk of needing to use reasonable force, with a focus on de-escalation and preventative strategies

☑️ Use of Restrictive Intervention and Reasonable Force Log with every statutory recording field built in, so leaders can record incidents compliantly and meet the same-day notification duty with confidence

☑️ Staff Training Presentation – a ready-made PowerPoint covering the guidance changes, staff legal powers, the three-part assessment and recording responsibilities – all ready to use in a staff meeting with no preparation needed. Please note: this is not safe handling or physical restraint training that instructs staff how to safely restrain a pupil.

☑️ 12 Restrictive Intervention Scenarios to build staff confidence in applying the guidance – ideal for drip-feeding into briefings and staff meetings across the year

Updated for 2026

Designed for headteachers, SENDCos and senior leaders, this ready-made template gives you a clear, structured starting point for reporting on SEND and inclusion to your governing board without having to build a report from scratch.

You'll get:

☑️ SEND and Inclusion Report to Governors Template – a comprehensive, 15-page editable Word document covering:

• SENDCo and SEND governance arrangements
• the SEND school profile and data by need type including communication and interaction, cognition and learning, SEMH and sensory and physical needs
• referrals and assessments including EHCP timescales and annual reviews
• the graduated approach and identification of need
• progress and attainment by key stage compared to non-SEND peers
• interventions and support across all four areas of need
• TA and LSA deployment
• attendance and exclusions for pupils with SEND
• SEND funding allocation and impact including EHCP top-up funding and pupil premium
• pupil voice and parent and carer engagement
• transitions across all stages including post-16 and into adulthood
• local area partnership and local offer
• work with external agencies including educational psychology, SALT, OT and CAMHS
• inclusion across broader groups,
• specialist staff training and SENDCo capacity
• policy review dates
• a strengths and areas for development evaluation including governor questions and challenges

All sections are fully editable so you can adapt the template to your school's context and reporting cycle.

Ideal for headteachers, SENDCos, inclusion leads and senior leaders preparing termly or annual SEND and inclusion reports to governors.

👉 Looking for more governor report templates? This template and others are part of our Reports to Governors Template Bundle

🔒 New for 2026 and fully aligned to the Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit 2025

Understanding how well your school includes and supports every pupil – those with SEND, those who are disadvantaged, those known to children's social care and those who face less visible barriers to learning – requires more than your own professional judgement. It requires the voices of pupils, parents and staff, gathered systematically and analysed in a way that leads to meaningful action.

This pack gives you everything you need to plan, administer, analyse and act on stakeholder feedback about inclusion, and because the core survey templates come pre-populated with carefully considered questions, you can move from planning to distribution with minimal preparation time.

You'll get:

☑️ Three ready-to-use surveys covering pupils (two versions for different age and ability groups), parents and carers, and staff – each ready-made with closed and open questions aligned to the 2025 Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit

☑️ A question and statement bank with additional prompts across all three stakeholder groups, including targeted questions for pupils and families of children with SEND, disadvantaged pupils, pupils known to children's social care and those facing other barriers to learning

☑️ A survey analysis template with structured tables for tallying responses, identifying themes and triangulating findings across all three groups

☑️ A pre-survey checklist to help you think through the logistics before you launch and survey letter templates – ready-made notification and feedback letters for parents and staff

☑️ Comprehensive guidance on planning, administering, analysing and sharing survey findings, including how to handle difficult results and a free worked example that helps you learn how to effectively analyse and triangulate survey data

All documents are fully editable so you can adapt them for your school's specific context.