SEND Digital Resilience Guidance

If you support young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) you might be concerned about their engagement with the digital world. You might also worry that the messages they get in school and at home can be confusing, with different language used to make the same points. For some young people, this different language can mean the rules don't seem to make sense, or they can struggle to apply them to the real situations they find themselves in. 

To help with this, we've developed the key messages from the Digital Resilience Tool into guidance specifically for people supporting young people with SEND. This guidance was developed with the team who made the Digital Resilience Tool, with input from Special Educational Needs Coordinators and other stakeholders who work with young people with SEND.

The guidance is organised by themes. Each theme contains helpful information on how to use the key messages and advice in practice. The language used is straightforward, and we've repeated the same messages where appropriate to help ensure consistency.

We'd recommend sharing this guidance with all the people in a young person’s support network so that everyone is using the same language and can refer to it any time a new situation arises. It can help you explain why certain rules or boundaries are in place, or why you are concerned about specific issues. 

Please click on the image below to access the guidance.