Resources for SEND specialists
The National Careers Strategy makes it clear that all young people should be supported to achieve their optimum career outcome. Therefore, our resources aren’t just for those in SEND-specific settings, they’re also for use within any other setting that includes young people with SEND.
Spotlight
SEND Outreach Campaign E Pack
This is the electronic version of the SEND Outreach Campaign. It contains lots of useful resources for Career Leaders in a SEND setting.
Contained in the pack are the following:
- SEND Gatsby Toolkit
- Transform your careers programme - Career Leader training details
- Compass for Special
- Careers Health Checklist
- Same and Different model
SEND Careers Health Checklist
This interactive checklist will support you to think about the Careers provision you have within your SEND setting.
SEND journey/roadmap
Take a step in the right direction: help all stakeholders understand your SEND careers programme by using this template to present it visually.
Approaches to BM 4 in SEND presentation
This presentation was used in a workshop to support the thinking around the development of BM4 in a SEND setting.
Same and Different
Learn more about the various aspects of early career development for 18-year olds with SEND and provide more targeted support with this model.
Pathways Posters - My Skills My Future
These posters show potential pathways for young people at the age of 16. Developed with the support of the Birmingham SEND Careers Hub the posters are relevant for those typically not likely to take GCSE (Career Group 1) and those typically likely (Career Group 2).
Browse SEND resources
Filter by:
Category
SEND
Gatsby benchmarks
Key stage
Campaigns
Type
Resource type
Role
I am a...
The Careers Podcast
How do you find a job you’ll love? What will it take to land that dream role? How do you discover what your dream job is?
The Careers Podcast interviews people doing all kinds of different jobs, finding out what they do, what they love about it and how they got to where they are now.
Naturally Talented Me
This Gatsby Benchmark-aligned profiling platform is designed to present and evidence an individual’s natural talents – and align them with real job requirements.
Inspiring Worcestershire SEND resources
Inspiring Worcestershire Careers Hub have developed a number of resources for SEND as part of the work in the SEND Community of Practice.
Skills Builder Expanded Universal Framework for learners with additional needs
The Expanded Framework breaks progression down, placing three simple Stepping Stones between Steps give more extensive scaffolding. The Stepping Stones can be recorded on our assessment tool, too.
Skills Builder: Benchmark
Skills Builder Benchmark is an online self-assessment tool. Individuals aged 11+ can register and record their reflections against the Skills Builder Framework.
Skills Builder Hub
Access a free-to-use online platform that hosts all the tools you need to build the eight essential skills as outlined by the Skills Builder.
Unifish Website
Unifish is your guide to higher education in London when you need a little more support, brought to you by Aimhigher London. It is a fully searchable and filterable website in multiple ways including by type of support and location.
Unbox Your Future resource
These resources are taken from the Leicester and Leicestershire Enterprise Partnership Unbox Your Future pilot project targeting 1,500 NEET or Unknown Young People.
What’s Your Strength?
Empower young people to recognise their abilities and talk about their strengths – helping to improve their self-confidence and career planning skills.
This is a costed resource.
Launch Your Career
Launch Your Career is a transformational career search and discovery platform, that uses VIRTUAL REALITY to engage and immerse young people on a personalized journey.
Barclays LifeSkills
Access free online interactive resources, ready-made lessons and work experience opportunities – and build them into your progressive careers programme.
Famous People Activity (SEND)
Developed by the Inspiring Worcestershire Careers Hub team this activity has been designed to accompany activities around raising aspirations along with exploring career choices for SEND students.
My Skills My Future
This programme has been collated from resources across our partners and network to support young people with SEND under the 2 groups identified in the SEND toolkit. It contains lessons around employability skill development , employer projects and engagement videos all to support young people in their next steps.