In this episode, we discuss how primary schools can maximise the impact of our staff team to deliver excellent SEND provision, with our panel offering a range of innovative ideas and approaches.

Our three experienced guests begin their discussion with nine quick ideas and go on to develop these during the podcast, considering how the impact of our SEND staffing can be optimised to ensure we support our most vulnerable pupils.

We ask how we can work within incredibly tight budgets to maximise the staffing of SEND – what approaches have been shown to be effective.

We talk about ideas for the effective and efficient deployment of staff and we consider how we can get CPD right for all our colleagues who work to support SEND children, especially our teachers and teaching staff.

We discuss the challenging role of the SENCO and how they can be supported by school leadership to oversee and lead SEND staffing and provision in the school.

We talk about provision mapping and discuss how we can keep our practice and our SEND pupils central to our planning and at the heart of our inclusive school culture.

This episode dissects the revised Ofsted inspection framework, setting out actions that school leaders can take now to prepare and offering expert insights and tips.

Our panel has extensive experience of Ofsted inspection, and they break down the key changes that schools should be focused on and how best we can respond.

We highlight key aspects of the revised framework, including the implications of the new evaluation areas and grading points. We interrogate the new "secure fit" model of inspection and Ofsted's new "expected standard".

We delve into the inclusion thread that runs throughout the framework and will dominant inspections from now on and we discuss the new focus on school context, asking how school leaders can best communicate this information during inspection.

We offer top tips for the Monday phone call, tips for identifying strengths/weaknesses, touch upon the new role of the "nominee" and the case sampling of pupils.

Finally, we list actions that schools should be taking now to set themselves in good stead for inspection under the new regime.

This episode offers advice for school leaders on how they can handle parental complaints, including de-escalation tips and dealing with vexatious complaints.

With NAHT research showing a rise in parental complaints and vexatious complaints, this episode is packed full of useful tips and practical advice for school leaders.

Our three experienced panellists describe what they are seeing on the ground in terms of rising complaints and discuss the reasons why more parents are complaining.

We ask how we can best respond to complaints, including the steps we should take to take and how best to communicate with parents throughout the process.

We discuss ways to de-escalate complaints and how we can protect ourselves personally and professionally during what can be a very stressful time.

We discuss the nature of vexatious complaints and how we should handle these, including how we can response to parents who refer their complaints directly to bodies such as Ofsted or the DfE.