City College Norwich, ETF's Centre for Excellence in SEND (community) held a short webinar, exploring the benefits for employers to engage with learners with SEND and understand what employers really want. They shared their experiences and impact during the climate of COVID 19 of engaging and securing employment for learners with SEND. The webinar and associated PPT were to support providers to have the tools and knowledge to understand what employers really want and how to engage them effectively.

A doctoral thesis exploring the extent to which FE teachers' engagement in informal online social-media discussions might be a path to overcoming the resistance to traditional CPD in a demoralised sector, and result in valuable professional learning.

A comprehensive step by step approach to understanding and using RARPA

This new resource explains the RARPA process and how it can be effectively implemented for learners with SEND. It brings together the information providers need to know about recent changes in national policy and practice for learners with SEND including a self audit tool to support continuous quality improvement. There are links to resources developed by providers and a range of person-centred thinking tools to ensure the learner voice remains central to the RARPA process.

This guide is to help learning support staff. It provides examples of Covid-19 safe strategies that can be employed for different performance criteria within the National Occupational Standards for learning support staff. In addition is an activity for learning support staff to reflect on their own working practices and the strategies they can adopt.