Outstanding SEND Resource or Service
B Squared – SENDcast
The SENDcast is your go-to hub for all things SEND, offering free weekly podcasts and online CPD training sessions. It serves as a valuable resource for educators and parents, keeping them informed about policy changes and best practices. Featuring SEND experts discussing current topics and challenges, making it a go-to platform for timely information.
Designed to support educators, the SENDcast addresses real-world challenges, offering insights on topics ranging from classroom management to emotional regulation strategies. It also promotes parental engagement by discussing collaboration strategies, helping parents understand their child’s needs and navigate processes like the Education, Health, and Care Plan (EHCP).
The SENDcast emphasises inclusivity, covering a wide array of SEND areas and ensuring accessibility through major platforms like Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Transcripts are available for those who prefer reading, accommodating different learning preferences.
With a focus on evidence-based practices and GDPR compliance, the SENDcast ensures a safe listening experience. B Squared also provides ongoing support through social media and a dedicated website, fostering a community where listeners feel valued. By delivering content digitally, the SENDcast contributes to environmental sustainability by reducing the need for printed materials.
Cherry Garden School and Tapestry – Cherry Garden Branch Maps
The Cherry Garden Branch Maps on Tapestry provide an innovative, evidence-informed approach to assessing and supporting learners with complex SEND, including PMLD, SLD, and autism. Developed by Cherry Garden School in partnership with Tapestry, the resource addresses a critical gap in traditional assessment systems, which often fail to capture the small, non-linear steps of progress made by these learners.
The Branch Maps break development into finely graded, observable steps across key areas such as communication, cognition, and personal and social development, with a strong emphasis on engagement and interaction. Integrated within Tapestry, practitioners can record and link multimedia observations to these steps, creating a rich, holistic picture of each child’s learning journey.
The impact is significant: pupils benefit from highly personalised learning and increased engagement; staff gain confidence and clarity in assessment; and families are empowered through real-time, accessible insights into their child’s progress. The approach promotes consistent, collaborative practice across teams and settings.
Scalable and adaptable, this resource is already influencing practice beyond its original setting, offering a powerful model for inclusive, meaningful SEND assessment nationwide in over 3000 settings and schools.
Creative Activity – Senso Cube™
The Senso Cube™ is a fully bespoke, modular sensory environment developed by Creative Activity to address a common barrier faced by many organisations: the lack of available space for a dedicated sensory room.
Designed to be installed in areas as small as 2m x 2m, the Senso Cube™ provides a self-contained, sound-insulated multi-sensory space that can be installed within existing buildings without the need for structural modifications. The cube integrates a wide range of sensory technologies including lighting, interactive panels, bubble tubes, fibre optics, projection and calming soundscapes to support regulation, relaxation and engagement.
Its modular construction allows it to be customised for different settings including schools, hospitals, airports, offices, shopping centres, hospitality environments and recreational facilities. The Senso Cube™ is designed to support individuals with sensory processing needs, autism, learning disabilities, anxiety and stress while also providing wellness and relaxation benefits for the wider community.
By removing the space limitations associated with traditional sensory rooms, the Senso Cube significantly expands access to sensory environments.
Different Class – DCPro AP Attendance
DCPro Alternative Provision Attendance is a specialist digital service designed to safeguard and improve outcomes for pupils with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) who are educated outside mainstream school settings.
For many vulnerable learners, education takes place across multiple providers, part-time timetables or bespoke Section 19 arrangements. Traditional attendance systems are not designed to manage this complexity, leaving local authorities reliant on fragmented spreadsheets and disconnected data. DCPro solves this challenge by providing a single, authoritative record of attendance across alternative provision, tuition services and dual registrations.
The platform enables real-time oversight of attendance, cohort analysis by EHCP status, SEND profile and vulnerability indicators. This allows education, SEND and safeguarding teams to identify emerging absence patterns early and intervene before problems escalate.
Developed in collaboration with local authorities, DCPro AP Attendance supports statutory responsibilities while reducing administrative burden. Hosted securely within UK cloud infrastructure and backed by ISO 27001 certification, it combines strong governance with intuitive usability.
By ensuring that pupils educated outside mainstream settings remain visible, monitored and supported, DCPro AP Attendance transforms attendance tracking into a powerful tool for inclusion and improved life outcomes.
myHappymind
myHappymind is an award-winning, NHS-backed whole-school mental wellbeing programme designed to help every child, including those with SEND, develop essential emotional and wellbeing skills. Used by over 2,000 schools, the curriculum is grounded in neuroscience and positive psychology, giving children practical strategies to understand their brain, regulate emotions, and build resilience.
Unlike short-term, reactive interventions, myHappymind takes a preventative, whole-school approach. It is delivered through one fully prepared weekly lesson from Early Years to Year 6, integrating seamlessly with PSHE and supporting Ofsted priorities around inclusion and personal development.
Inclusivity is built into the design. Lessons use clear language, predictable structures, and visual supports so neurodiverse pupils and those with social, emotional, and mental health needs can learn alongside their peers. The programme was co-developed with special schools to create an adapted curriculum based on developmental stages, not chronological age.
Reaching over 1 million children, parents and staff, and recognised with the King’s Award for Innovation and the Bett Transformational Impact Award, myHappymind equips children with lifelong wellbeing skills while helping schools create calmer, more inclusive classrooms and cultures where pupils are ready to learn and thrive.
No Isolation – AV1
School non-attendance is one of the most urgent yet under-recognised challenges in global education, with around one in five pupils missing 10% or more of school.
The reasons behind school non-attendance are complex and varied. They include long-term illness or injury, emotionally based school non-attendance (EBSNA), and special education needs and disabilities (SEND).
No Isolation’s purpose-built telepresence solution, AV1, addresses this challenge. By ensuring continuity in learning, AV1 provides equal access to lessons and classroom participation, even when pupils cannot be physically present at school.
The AV1 Robot becomes the pupil’s eyes, ears, and voice. It sits on the pupil’s desk, allowing them to join lessons and group work and enabling real-time interaction with teachers and classmates.
It is also a cost-effective system for managing absence at school, trust and local authority level. The wider AV1 ecosystem – AV1 App, AV1 Admin, and AV1 Academy – provides the functionality and support for all absent pupils to access learning via AV1, whether as an early intervention or absence is already entrenched.
At its core, AV1 removes barriers to in-person learning. Not replacing teaching, but preserving a sense of belonging and the students’ place in school until they are ready to return.
PAGS
SEND in England is reaching a tipping point. Over 1.7 million pupils have been identified as having special educational needs, demand continues to rise, and schools are expected to evidence impact, secure funding and deliver consistent provision with fewer resources than ever. Most are still managing this across spreadsheets, paper trails and disconnected systems. PAGS exists to solve that problem.
PAGS is the infrastructure schools use to manage SEND end-to-end, covering all four areas of the SEND Code of Practice alongside validated Sensory and Early Years assessments. It serves every stakeholder from the SENCO and classroom teacher to the trust director and parent at home, replacing disconnected systems with one coherent platform.
Since winning this award in 2025, PAGS has been substantially rebuilt. Collaborative assessments, AI-powered target setting, a new Objectives feature delivering the Individual Support Plan framework introduced in the February 2026 white paper, custom reporting, and parent accounts have transformed what the platform delivers.
Schools using PAGS are securing an average of £13,600 in additional EHCP funding per school. Stone Soup Academy achieved Ofsted Outstanding for the third consecutive time, with attendance improving from 1% to 70% for targeted learners.
Validated by University College London. Trusted by schools.
Speech & Language Link – Infant Language Link
Infant Language Link is an innovative solution to support an all-encompassing area of SEND. Speech, language and communication needs (SLCN) are the highest primary need and numbers are rising, whilst therapy waitlists get longer. Infant Language Link helps schools to identify language needs and support those students who may otherwise be missed.
Infant Language Link brings together accurate language assessment, practical intervention and direct access to therapist guidance in one affordable package. It empowers schools to act sooner, feel confident in their decisions and reach more children effectively.