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  • 2009/2010 training programme run by SEBDA South East

    Our South East office, hosted by Goldwyn School, Ashford, Kent, is offering a range of practical training days in 2010/11. An extra accredited day course on 'Safer Recruitment' has been added on 8th March.

    To discuss, contact nikki@goldwyn.kent.sch.uk or ring 012333 622958. You can also view the South East Training Programme.

  • Master's and first degree level specialist training in SEBD/BESD

    Do you need to develop your expertise and knowledge - or want to help your career? Do you want more information on the popular and respected SEBDA/University of Leicester specialist courses, 2009/10? Follow in the footsteps of hundreds of skilled professionals who have taken our courses. For more details, download our Colour brochure or visit the events page

  • The new SEBDA/University of Leicester master's level course: 'Mental Health Problems and SEBD/BESD'

    Join us for the launch of this 'brilliant' new distance education accredited course in September. Do your complete 'behaviour'/SEN masters through SEBDA and University of the Year, Leicester.

    For more details, please see the Course description leaflet with booking form

  • SEBDA 2010 National Conference/Study Course

    After the great success of our 2009 event in Bristol at the end of March, 2009, attended by over 150 reps from schools, PRUs and other services, we look ahead to next year's event. This will be held at the Britannia Hotel, central Manchester, on Fri 19th and 20th March, 2010. The theme will be: 'SEBD and Good Practice' and key-note speakers include Prof. Sue Bailey and John Visser, PhD, Associate Professor.

    For more details, please see the training day leaflet

  • SEBDA London Region AGM

    On Wednesday 24th March, There will be an AGM at 7pm at the Thistle Hotel (Westminster) in London. REFRESHMENTS PROVIDED

    For more details, please see the AGM Agenda

  • SEBDA International Conference 2010

    This will be held at Keble College, Oxford, UK, on the 14-17th September, 2010, with the theme Transforming Troubled Lives. Do you want to share your research or good practice with an international audience? Would you like to sponsor this prestigious event?

    For more details, download a conference flyer or for more information (including the Call for Papers), visit the separate website www.SEBDAconferences.org

  • The new DCSF 'BESD' Guidance, May 2008

    Click here to see the full document.
    Click here to see other resources.

  • Back on Track

    Visit the DCSF web-site to see the new White Paper on the future of alternative provision for young people. What name would you use to replace 'PRU'? Vist the DCSF website at www.dcsf.gov.uk/publications/keydocuments.shtml