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October 2025
We’re thrilled to announce that nasen is a proud Supporter of the Schools & Academies Show Birmingham, 19-20 November. This flagship event welcomes over 6,000 visitors who share a passion for innovation and excellence in education.
Matthew has worked within the Education IT sector for 18 years at all levels, striving to provide staff and students with a safe, secure, and engaging digital landscape to leverage the opportunities and potential the digital world offers for learning and development. He has a keen focus on support delivery, security, connectivity, devices, and automation. Matt regularly blogs at  and hosts a podcast, "Edtech People," which explores all angles of how people are impacted and are being impacted by technology within education.
November 2025
More online shopping is done in November than any other month of the year – that’s a huge funding opportunity for your school or setting if you’re using easyfundraising. If you’re not, there’s no better time to join!Â
November 2025
We welcome the publishing of the Curriculum and Assessment Review final report. The findings fill nasen with hope that this is the beginning of change, ensuring that there is a real move towards inclusion for all.
Dr Marie Murphy is an Assistant Professor of Child and Adolescent Nutrition in the Department of Applied Health Sciences at the University of Birmingham. Her research focuses on improving nutrition and reducing dietary inequalities among children and young people, with a particular emphasis on inclusive public health interventions. She currently leads the FEAST project, which explores food provision and eating environments in special and alternative provision schools to support safe and healthy eating behaviours.
Leanne is a cofounder and partner at HealthyMinds@Work. She is also an executive coach, trainer and consultant, specialising in leadership, employee and organisational development, with twenty five years’ experience working in management consultancy and organisational development, for Andersen, Tesco Limited and SAGE Publications, and as a freelancer for a range of companies. Leanne runs many supervision, reflective practice and coaching sessions plus workshops in Education. She has been a governor for 8 years leading the Pay, Personnel and Resources Committee.
She has a deep knowledge of how to motivate, engage and develop people so they can perform to their best and contribute significantly to the organisations they work for.
In addition, Leanne is a registered and accredited psychotherapist with 20 years’ experience and has a private practice in central London. This has enabled her to gain a deeper understanding of people’s emotional world and how this influences their behaviour, performance and development. She uses this to inform her work and often includes therapeutic tools to help build self-awareness, manage emotional responses like stress, and increase emotional intelligence and resilience, enabling people to thrive.
Emma Shackleton is a primary teacher turned SEMH and behaviour specialist, with almost 30 years’ experience in education.
She is co-founder of Beacon School Support an impactful and dynamic company with inclusion and support at its core - helping schools nationwide to tackle behaviour challenges head-on through whole-school audits, coaching and training in person and via their hugely popular online CPD platform: Behaviour 360.
As both a national and international conference speaker and co-host of the hit School Behaviour Secrets podcast, Emma shares practical strategies that inspire educators to create classrooms where every pupil can thrive.
November 2025
We’re delighted to share that Jake Gurney, a dedicated primary school teacher from Luton, will represent nasen as our first-ever runner in the 2026 TCS London Marathon.
nasen Supports First Armed Forces Rugby League Cymru Cadet Cup and Remembrance Day Ceremony, Promoting Inclusion for All Young People.
Project CECiLiA, an evaluation of Care (EduCatIon) and treatment reviews for people with Learning Disabilities and Autistic people, have launched a national survey study to find out more about how people experience C(E)TRs.
November 2025
Are you a creative, organised and detail-oriented professional with a passion for delivering impactful marketing campaigns? Do you thrive in a collaborative environment and want to make a difference in the education sector?
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Sarah Seleznyov, Director of London South Teaching School Alliance, writes about about a research project supporting teachers to better meet the needs of pupils with autism, run in collaboration with UCL Centre for Inclusive Education.
Written by the National Sensory Impairment Partnership
Helen Boden is CEO of the British Dyslexia Association. You can find out more about the British Dyslexia Association here: https://www.bdadyslexia.org.uk/
Interview with Professor Karen Guldberg, Director of the Autism Centre for Education and Research (ACER) at the School of Education, University of Birmingham and lead author of the AET Good Autism Practice Guidance
Dr Sally Payne, Occupational Therapist and Dyspraxia Foundation Trustee
In her 2015 book, Teaching Gifted Children with Special Educational Needs, Professor Diane Montgomery noted that ‘if we meet the needs of pupils with DME then the school experience and the achievement of all children will be raised’.
Written by The National Network of Parent Carer Forums
Learning from evaluating a programme for parents of two-year-old children at risk of SLCN.