Together, today and tomorrow
Belong Whole-school support for teachers and SENCOs, built from your own provision
- Belong takes your graduated approach documents to the next level.
- Teachers self-serve curated Universal Offer resources.
- Experts at Hand curate Targeted resources, so SENCOs can support learners with evidence based interventions.
- And a whole school SEND audit, based on the Universal Offer, keeps everyone aligned.
Developed in collaboration with Leeds and Calderdale councils, as part of the DfE Change Programme, and tested by specialist SEN teams and SENCOs.
How it works
Inspiration for inclusion
1. Directory
The Local authority, with Experts at Hand, co-develop a directory of evidence based strategies and interventions, starting from your existing graduated approach documents.
This allows the LA to keep the strategies up to date without having to reprint a PDF every year.
2. Whole school access
SENCOs and teachers access resources for whole school inclusive teaching and the Development Areas, to plan inclusive teaching and targeted support. Strategies can be written straight into the Individual Support Plan.
3. Review
SENCOs and senior leaders complete a SEND and inclusion review across the whole school, to support CPD and strategic planning.
Shareable with your SEND Group and Experts at Hand.
4. Action plans
School action plans include priorities and milestones, created by the SENCO and SLT.
These can directly support the LA in their priorities for fresh resources, training and guidance from Experts at Hand, ready for whatever comes next.
This can include training at SEND Group level.
Modules
Belong is built from modules you can combine for your council
- Effective best practice directory, across Universal and Areas of Need
- Resource directory, to support SENCOs and teachers with practical resources
- Whole-school review, to look at current practice in settings
- Action plan with milestones, to plan next steps and direction
- Assistive technology lending library (coming soon)
The categories and resources
Built from your existing Graduated approach, Ordinarily Available Provision docs.
Browse the directory of evidence based strategies.
Universal and Areas of Need are broken down into categories to help SENCOs and teachers find practical strategies and resources to support inclusive teaching.
Easy to keep up to date, no more republishing of PDFs.
The whole school SEND review
The review takes the Universal categories and creates an online whole school review, accessible by SENCOs and SLT.
Each focus area gives a RAG rating, easy access to effective practice guidance, and comments.
An annual iterative approach helps SENCOs support inclusive teaching year by year.
Action plans
An annual review based on the Universal strategies, using an iterative approach.
Create milestones to plan policy and action to develop inclusive teaching in school.
Share priorities with the local authority to help them spot gaps and trends.
What SENCos are saying
And it's all in one place doing that signposting to lots of free resources.
I think it helps with communication to staff. This is so clear.
It's like a really useful tool, particularly for teachers who aren't SEND specialists
And I suppose it's a CPD tool in itself, isn't it?
So actually having that one place to look for things will be really helpful.
Provision grids are good, but then they're static, aren't they?
Case study
Transforming mainstream inclusion support through authentic co-production
Developed as part of the DfE Change Programme with Calderdale and Leeds councils.
Read the case studyWhy the name Belong
To be included, learners need to feel that they belong. And teachers need the understanding, skills and belief that pupils really do belong.
Belong gives SENCOs and teachers a place to learn, do, and reflect on their practice.
Built as part of the DfE Change Programme with Leeds City Council and Calderdale Council, and grounded in real research.
See Belong built from your own provision
Send us your ordinarily available provision or graduated approach documents and we will send back a small, working Belong for your authority. Free, no meeting, no obligation.