Description

✨ What You’ll Learn (2025 Update):

🔎 Where to Start — Identifying Pupil Needs
Understand how to identify pupils who would benefit from a nurture or resource base.
Explore assessment tools and early indicators of social, emotional, and mental health (SEMH) needs.
Recognise how relational and sensory factors influence learning and behaviour.

👩‍🏫 Where to Start — Identifying Staff
Discover what makes an effective nurture or resource base practitioner.
Learn how to build and support a specialist team to lead day-to-day provision.
Understand the importance of professional development, reflective supervision, and wellbeing for staff.

✅ Good Quality Provision vs. Not So Good
Learn what distinguishes effective and sustainable provision.
See practical examples from schools running successful nurture or resource bases.
Explore evidence-informed practice and how to embed the six nurture principles.

⚡ Common Pitfalls
Identify common issues schools face when launching new provision.
Avoid confusion between nurture provision, resource bases, and enhanced hubs.
Learn strategies for sustainability, staffing, and maintaining impact.

🗂️ Planning and Preparation
Access step-by-step guidance to create an actionable setup plan.
Explore routines, visuals, and environmental design for calming, purposeful spaces.
Includes a 2025 Inclusion Hub Shopping List with budget estimates and priority levels.

🏫 How Your Provision Fits into School Life
Understand how to integrate your nurture or resource base into the wider school ethos.
Clarify leadership roles and responsibilities—what sits with the SENCO, and what does not.
Align provision with the SEND and AP Improvement Plan (DfE 2023) and emerging guidance for enhanced hubs.

🗣️ Communication with Parents
Develop strong, transparent communication with parents and carers.
Learn how to set expectations, report progress, and maintain collaboration.
Share visuals and structured plans to build family confidence and trust.

📊 Pupil Assessment and Planning
Ideas to use to plan, monitor, and evaluate pupil progress.
Apply evidence-based tools to track SEMH and academic development.
Adjust support responsively to meet evolving needs.

📄 Accompanying 2025 Resources
• Developing a Nurture or Resource Base in a Mainstream School — 2025 update document
• Inclusion Hub Shopping List — Essentials, Desirables and Blue Sky Thinking items with budget estimates
• Action planning and pupil identification templates

💻 Watch Anytime, Anywhere!
Join this updated on-demand training to build or refine your nurture or resource base.
Empower your team with current guidance, practical strategies, and ready-to-use resources to create inclusive, emotionally intelligent spaces for your most vulnerable learners.