What Works in SEND

The What Works in SEND programme is delivered by an expert partnership experienced in academic research and evidence; systems change and service improvement; practice development, learning facilitation and sector-wide collaboration. The programme is led by the University of Warwick in collaboration with the Council for Disabled Children (CDC) and Isos Partnership and establishes an ambitious programme of learning and innovation, designed to generate high quality evidence of what works at system-level in SEND to improve outcomes for children, young people and families. Our mission is to co-design a learning system, delivered in line with the IMPACT principles of the What Works Network, based on a cycle of: Generate – Producing high quality evidence of what works (and what doesn’t) in system level SEND service improvement and practice models. Translate – Ensuring technical research meets the needs of users in the SEND system and is interpreted, formatted and styled to enable key SEND decision makers to understand and use it, enabling them to transfer ‘what we know’ into ‘what we do’. Adopt – Build SEND system capacity to understand, use and build evidence using innovative interactive digital engagement such as Knowledge hubs and policy labs and more traditional approaches, e.g. workshops, conferences and targeted communication.