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This short guide aims to support employers and education providers (e.g. schools and colleges) to understand that with effective partnership working, the barriers that currently prevent young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) from accessing work experience, can be broken down to ensure that lives can be changed; one experience at a time.

This short guide aims to support employers and education providers (e.g. schools and colleges) to understand that with effective partnership working, the barriers that currently prevent young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) from accessing work experience, can be broken down to ensure that lives can be changed; one experience at a time.

Lizzi talks about the complexities of being a confident and outgoing teenager who also suffers from severe anxiety and depression.

Guest blog by parent carer Maureen, Co-Chair of The National Network of Parent Carer Forums (NNPCF).

As part of our work on the Erasmus project to learn about Pathways into Employment for young people with Disabilities, one of the participants, Sterre Ploeger, has contributed a graphic representation of her story.

Recently I spent the day at the Westminster Insight Conference and was struck by the number of times people referred to inclusion, in particular, the challenges that inclusion brings. But I have to ask – is it really that challenging?

A graphic representation of Sterre Ploeger's story of her journey into Employment.

Early intervention is essential with young people who are labelled as having special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) if they are to have a life of work rather than a life in services

This fantastic video details a graphic summary of a recent High Needs Provision (SEND) Review in Blackburn with Darwen by the NDTi Preparing for Adulthood team.

This guide provides information on the way the Education & Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) and, in some cases, local authorities will calculate and allocate funding to institutions who provide education to young people with SEND.