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<p>All teachers are teachers of special educational needs and disabilities (SEND),
and the department is committed to ensuring that all pupils can reach their potential
and receive excellent support from their teachers. To support all teachers to meet
these standards, the government are implementing a ‘golden thread’ of high-quality
teacher training reforms which begins with initial teacher training and continues
into early career teaching, through to the reformed suite of leadership and specialist
National Professional Qualifications, ensures that teachers have the skills to support
all pupils to succeed, including those with SEND.</p><p>The revised initial teacher
training core content framework, which all new entrants to the profession benefit
from, has been designed around how to support all pupils to succeed, including those
pupils identified within the four areas of need, set out in the SEND Code of Practice. All
trainees who achieve qualified teacher status must demonstrate that they can adapt
teaching to respond to the strengths and needs of all pupils, including those with SEND.</p><p>The
early career framework (ECF) has been designed around how to support all pupils to
succeed and seeks to widen access for all. This includes those pupils identified within
the four areas of need set out in the SEND code of practice, and children in need
of help and protection as identified in the Children in Need Review.</p><p>Consideration
of SEND underpins both the CCF and ECF which were both produced with the support of
sector experts.</p><p>Once teachers qualify and are employed in schools, headteachers
use their professional judgement to identify any further training, including specific
specialisms, for individual staff that is relevant to them, the school, and its pupils.</p><p>In
February 2022, we announced more than £45 million of funding for continued targeted
support for families and parents of children with SEND and SEND services. This includes
funding that will directly support schools and colleges to work with pupils with SEND,
for example through training on specific needs like autism.</p>
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