Schools
Understand workforce confidence and capability around SEND, identify development priorities and measure change over time.
Elevate SEND
More confident teachers. Better experiences for children with SEND.
Elevate SEND helps schools understand and strengthen teacher confidence and capability around SEND — supporting better-informed practice and creating stronger conditions for children with SEND to feel supported and included.
A measurement and intelligence platform for SEND workforce development — not another training provider.
Who it’s for
Who is Elevate for?
Designed for the people responsible for building a more confident, capable and inclusive workforce.
SENCOs & Inclusion Leaders
See where teams feel equipped, where additional support may be valuable and whether professional development is making a measurable difference.
Senior Leaders & MATs
Use workforce-level intelligence to inform professional development, inclusion and continuous improvement.
Why Elevate?
Better supported children start with better equipped teachers.
Schools invest heavily in SEND professional development. Elevate helps them understand where their workforce is today, where development may be needed and how confidence and capability change over time.
Training tells you what was delivered.
Elevate helps you understand what changed.
How it works
The Elevate Intelligence Loop
Turn professional development into a continuous cycle of insight and improvement.
- 01Assess
Establish a baseline of workforce confidence and capability.
- 02Develop
Identify priorities and focus professional development where it is most relevant.
- 03Reassess
Measure how confidence and capability have changed.
- 04Evidence
Give leaders a clear view of progress and continuing priorities.
- 05Improve
Use the evidence to inform the next development cycle.
Pilot
Ready to understand where your workforce is today?
Work with Elevate on an initial pilot to establish a baseline, identify development priorities, measure change and give school leaders clearer evidence for the next cycle of improvement.
Evidence
Why workforce confidence matters
Children with SEND experience school through the people supporting them. National data suggests many teachers would value more support.
16%
of primary teachers reported being very confident meeting the needs of pupils requiring SEND support.
15%
of secondary teachers reported being very confident meeting the needs of pupils requiring SEND support.
70%
of 2025 full area SEND inspections found inconsistent experiences and outcomes.
Department for Education — School and College Voice, January 2026Ofsted and CQC area SEND inspections, 2025
The Ofsted figure relates to local area partnership arrangements as a whole, not individual school performance.
SEND reform places growing emphasis on inclusion and workforce capability. Department for Education SEND reform programme. Elevate is independent and is not approved, funded, endorsed or partnered by the Department for Education, Government or Ofsted.
About Elevate
Built from SEND experience, data and measurement.
01
SEND Experience
Grounded in practical understanding of SEND, inclusion and the people who support children every day.
02
Data & Measurement
Built around structured assessment, measurement and evidence — turning workforce information into useful intelligence.
03
Advisory Expertise
Supported by a developing network of education, SEND and measurement expertise.
Demo
Explore the Elevate approach
Fictional demonstration data — no login required.
- Teacher perspective
- SENCO perspective
- Leadership perspective
- Workforce patterns
- Change over time
SEND workforce overview
Cheshire Academy
Staff assessed
91
of 100 staff
Confidence
76
Cohort average
Confidence gap
17 pts
Priority signal
Measured priority
Adaptive teaching
18 point gap
BaselineReassessment
Every child deserves to feel supported. Every teacher deserves to feel equipped.
Start a conversation about how Elevate could help your school understand, strengthen and measure SEND workforce capability.
Discuss a Pilot