SEND and Inclusion at LGfL
What is LGfL?
LGfL is a Charitable Trust and community of schools, local authorities, and Multi-Academy Trusts, committed to advancing education by using technology to enhance teaching and learning and remove barriers to learning.
Through LGfL, schools receive Superfast internet access and related online safeguarding and cyber Security services and can access a wide range of inclusive, online learning resources.
How can LGfL support learners with SEND?
LGfL has an inclusion service called IncludED that aims to support inclusive practice for all, including learners with SEND.
A large resource bank is available for LGfL school staff, learners, and parents/carers.
What resources are available through LGfL?
They have a wide range of inclusive materials available.
The IncludED resources include:
- Busy Things – cross-curricular, high multisensory cross-curricular resources – Busy Things Login LGfL
- 15,000 Widgit symbols and worksheets – Widgit
- Look Think Do, social stories and skills resources for primary learners – Look, Think, Do
- Employability and Thinking Skills for Life by AXIS Education – Employability
- The award winning Fairytales and Early Shakespeare from SEN Assist – Fairy Tales and Early Shakespeare.
- Just2Easy ToolSuite | LGFL Create, edit, style, save, share, publish, blog, vote, review – see what you can do with j2e!
- Listening Books provides over 100 curriculum-based audiobooks direct to all schools that are part of the LGfL – National Grid for Learning, to be used with pupils with SEND. LGfL – The National Grid for Learning – Education – Listening Books.
- In partnership with Child Bereavement UK, resources to help support young people and school communities dealing with bereavement: https://childbereavement.lgfl.org.uk
As well as the IncludED resources that support teaching and learning, LGfL has a vast array of other inclusion content, including:
The Included Conversation is a video and audio podcast channel that provides Insights into inclusive practice for all. Now, in its second series, you can freely subscribe to keep up to date with expert conversations around inclusion.
Inclusion best practice case studies showcase Inspirational inclusive practice across the LGfL community.
The Ed Tech Hubs programme provides peer-to-peer support for the effective use of technology to enhance teaching and learning in schools and colleges across England. It showcases some effective use of technology to remove the barriers to learning in both mainstream and SEND settings.
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