SEND Workforce Development
This webpage now lists the wide range of SEND training available to Sheffield settings from a number of providers. This is part of the Workforce Development area of the whole city SEND and Inclusion Strategy. This new approach is a work in progress and we are hoping to make it easier to locate specific training from a number of providers by listing it all on this webpage.
The training has been separated by the areas of healthy child development and to reflect the broad areas of need by the SEND Code of Practice (Communication and Interaction / Cognition and Learning / Social, Emotional and Mental Health / Sensory and/or Physical), plus one category for systems and processes. Please use the buttons below to navigate to the area of training that you are looking for.
Where no dates or locations are listed on the website, this is because there are multiple dates available and these are listed on the Eventbrite booking page. Costs to settings have been indicated as applicable.
For any queries or feedback about this new approach, please contact enquiries@learnsheffield.co.uk.
Cognition and Learning
| Supporting Children with SEND in the Early Years |
Principles and approaches for supporting and teaching children with SEND in the Early Years Foundation Stage.
Audience: All roles in Early Years settings
Location: Online
Cost: TBC
Training Team: Fusion SEND Hub
How to book: Book Here
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| Supporting Children with Down Syndrome |
Principles and approaches for supporting and teaching children with Down Syndrome in education settings.
Audience: All roles across early Years, primary, secondary, post-16
Location: In person
Cost: TBC
Training Team: Fusion SEND Hub
How to book: Book Here
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| Specific Learning Difficulty (SpLD) Training |
SPLD: This half-day course will provide SENDCOs with the confidence to undertake assessments of children and young people with specific learning difficulties. The course will include:
- Definition of specific learning difficulties.
- Typical and atypical literacy development.
- Assessments of literacy and numeracy that can be used in school.
- How to interpret the findings from an assessment.
- How to link assessment findings with ‘real life’ data such as teacher observation and parental concerns.
- How assessment findings might link to strategies and interventions.
This course has been designed in consultation with Sheffield CC EPS and Sheffield NHS SALT services
Audience: SENDCOs KS1/2/3
Location: In person (Learn Sheffield)
Sessions: 5 November 2025, 4 March 2026, 20 May
Cost: Free to Sheffield schools and settings
Training Team: SEND Strategic Leads
How to book: Book Here
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