Outreach Services
We provide a range of specialist outreach services locally, regionally and nationally. This includes:
- Specialist support to schools, colleges and other settings
- Provision of a range of specialist services and support which enable settings to be more responsive to the needs of children and young people with SEND including provison of detailed assessment reports. This includes involvement of specialists where a child or young person has made little or no progress despite evidence based support
- Support to build capacity and specialism around particular areas of need. This includes whole school/college improvement strategies, training courses for teachers and teaching assistants, bespoke training, including twilights sessions and input of specialists at staff meetings and teacher training days, consultancy support for SEND (individual pupils and target groups) and monitoring and evaluation of SEND provision and interventions
- Therapeutic services. This includes the provision of speech and language therapy, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, music therapy, art therapy, audiology services, support from assistive technologists, interveners and support to meet the mental health needs of children and young people with complex and severe learning disabilities combined with significant communication difficulties
- Training and Continuing Professional Development - A broad range of training and continuing professional development delivered directly within schools, colleges and other settings and to statutory bodies and a range of businesses. View upcoming training courses at Seashell Trust.
- Consultancy and Strategic Support. All of our Executive Leadership Team have extensive experience in the field of SEND and three members of the team have been Senior Officers within local authorities, including leading SEND services, specialist support teams and front line care services. We offer a range of consultancy and strategic support to local authorities and other statutory bodies on all aspects of SEND
- Sector-Led Improvement – consultancy and strategic support to national bodies with a specific focus on high need, low-incidence SEN
More Information
For more information about our Outreach Services, please call us on 0161 696 9396 or email: outreach@seashelltrust.org.uk.
You can also join our mailing list or view our SEND Outreach Peripatetic and Training Services brochure.
What our customers say
“Seashell Trust provided our College with an excellent day of bespoke training on Autism for Sensory Learners. The trainers were very responsive to the needs of our staff and did a great job of fulfilling the brief and exceeding our expectations. I wouldn’t hesitate to book them for future events and would highly recommend Seashell Trust”
“I think you got a really good feel for what our school is about and that reflects in the report and suggestions made. Thank you again. I think this will help support the young person’s communication and understanding in class and at home”
“I just wanted to thank you for the fantastic training. The feedback has been incredibly positive with people telling me how impressed they were by the amount of information they felt they were presented with and how it’s encouraged them to develop new perspectives on the needs of specific students they work with. I personally took loads of information away with me. Many thanks for all of your time and efforts. It was a brilliant session”
“I will be more confident now and will be able to talk to young people with autism more effectively”, “Really interesting. My awareness of autism and what it is has definitely improved. I feel that my patience has increased by loads as I have an understanding of what I can be doing to support the young person”. “I understand on a more 1:1 level how to speak and set up a visual and written schedule and how autistic people look at people and the world”. “Social stories are new to me and will be good to use in my workplace”. “I have learnt more about the complex variations of ASD and coping mechanisms”. “Has got me thinking about what we currently do to support and what we need to be doing”.
"The workshop was informative and speaker very clear”. “Really enjoyed it and found the information well presented”. “Explained in easy manner”. “Very easy to follow and understand”
“Completing the autism qualification (OCN introductory awareness of autism spectrum conditions) was of great benefit to my working practice. It covered areas that I had some basic understanding in and I learnt some new things. Most importantly, it encouraged me to reflect upon my working practice with our students with ASC and to think about how they experience situations and how I could best support them. The course was delivered at a good pace and we were offered plenty of time and support with the assignments. It helped that the tutor worked with people with autism daily as he was able to give us examples and ideas and completely understand our roles.” (Louise Banks, LSA)
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