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.
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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).
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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.
What is your SEN Superpower?
Developed by Black Country Careers Hub and Cadent gas Cornerstone Employer.
These videos can be accessed by neuro-diverse pupils to inspire them to be what they what to be and challenge those stereotypes.
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.
Transition Guide from Primary to Secondary: enhancing careers education and supporting parental engagement
This resource is designed to support Careers Leaders and other staff involved in the transition process from Key Stage 2 into Key Stage 3, exploring opportunities to embed careers activities and parental engagement across the full range of transition opportunities.
It takes you through the three phases:
- Decision making (Y4,5,6) while children and parents /carers are still considering their options
- Decision made (Y6) once the children have been allocated their secondary school
- Started (Y7) once the children have started their secondary school.
The Skills Suitcase
Help students identify their own skills – as well as the areas where they might need further development – and encourage reflection in a fun and engaging way.
The Panjango Game
The Panjango Game is a fast-moving board game that explores the world of work in a fun way – developing key skills such as teamworking and problem solving.
Talentino!
Watch Talentino’s Annual SEND Careers Conference 2022, with a fantastic range of interesting and challenging keynote speakers and workshops – from decision makers, SEND professionals, Careers professionals, employers, and young people.
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 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.
SEND Shaftesbury learner journey
See a great example of a learner journey within a SEND environment –developed by Shaftesbury High School, a special needs school in Harrow, London.
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 Guess my job activity
Developed by the Inspiring Worcestershire Careers Hub team this resource is aimed at settings with young people with SEND.

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.