National Award for Special Educational Needs Coordination (NASENCo) (Chester) PGCert

Are you working as a SENCo/ALNCo in a school, college or Early Years? Then this course is for you.

Course overview

This course fulfils the training requirements of The Special Educational Needs Code of Practice (2015), which envisages that a SENCO will provide leadership and professional guidance to colleagues and will work closely with staff, parents and carers, etc. It challenges SENCOs to promote person-centred, inclusive practice in which the interests and needs of pupils with SEN and/or disabilities are at the heart of everything they do.

Why study this course with us?

At Chester, the NASENCo also forms part of the MA in Special Educational Needs and Disability.

Our course takes as its ideology the notion that person-centred, inclusive thinking that foregrounds individual interests and needs of children, young people and adults with SEN and/or disabilities is at the heart of all practice. It is based on the premise that parents and carers are equal partners in securing achievement, progress and well-being, and that value-free understanding of social and familial contexts is crucial in responding to a child, young person or vulnerable adult with SEN.