News (Change & Development)

It’s time to take responsibility. Jane Friswell and Bill Love reflect on placements, secure settings and failing people.

The National Development Team for Inclusion (NDTi) has secured almost £500k from The National Lottery Community Fund to deliver a three-year programme coproduced with young people with additional needs and their families.

A new blog from Anna Marriott from NDTi.

This Learning disability Week’s theme is creativity. We asked our new Evaluation Manager, Dr Karen McInnes, to talk about the value of play and playfulness and its role in communicating and learning creatively.

A perspective on Mental Health Awareness Week | About 2 weeks into lockdown#3, the staff team at NDTi started sharing pictures of our individual weekly walks on our teams site...it started to widen our window to the world.

Those living in our towns and cities have to find nature where they can, not in the big spaces but in the small ones, in life, in the sky, in the cracks in the pavements.

Lessons about inclusion from autistic adolescent girls who stop attending school A subtitled video of the webinar from May 2021 by Dr Ruth Moyse. Children who stop attending school are often called truants or school refusers, placing the reason for their absence as a problem within the child. This session proposes a different way of interpreting their absence, by sharing lessons learnt from research with 10 autistic girls who stopped attending mainstream secondary schools.

Highlights from the 2021 Inclusion Education Festival hosted by NDTi #inclusionEdFest.

This three-part podcast addresses the common questions young people with additional needs have about applying to, choosing and attending university.

Through our delivery of Time to Talk, we heard about Staffordshire University’s work to make transitioning into Higher Education as smooth as possible.