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Resources for Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Students

https://bucksskillshub.org/career-seeker/special-educational-needs-and-disabilities

 

 

Bucks Skills Show

 

Bucks Skills Hub | Confident Futures Skills Show 2025

The Confident Futures Skills Show is a progression event that explores the next steps and provides career inspiration for students with SEND and other barriers. It breaks down obstacles and enables young people, their parents and carers, and jobseekers to explore the future with a range of employers, supported internship providers, next step education and social care providers.

Event details

Date: TBC

Time: 3:30pm to 5:30 pm

Location: Bowls Centre, Stoke Mandeville Stadium, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP21 9PP


Talkback

Transitions work with young autistic people and other learning disabilities. So, we help make the important transitions in each stage of their life. As well as dealing with anxieties and life’s challenges. Because they can often be overwhelming.

Alternative Learning is for people who, for any reason, feel unable to study within the standard college setting. Because we understand college is not for everyone. So making provisions to ensure those who do not attend college can still develop their life skills is a key part of what we do.

https://talkback-uk.com/our-services/transitions/


Post-16 Education and Training

Buckinghamshire Council have a dedicated site for young people with SEND

https://familyinfo.buckinghamshire.gov.uk/youth/post-16-education-and-training/options-for-young-people-with-special-educational-needs-and-disability-send/


Higher Education Access for All: Understanding the Disabled Students’ Allowance

University is a challenge for anyone – but when you have a disability, it becomes all the more tricky to traverse the pitfalls of life on campus. Often, at the forefront of these worries is finding the money to be able to fund day-to-day living expenses, the cost of accommodation, and your lifestyle.

Thankfully, more is being done to account for the financial needs of students with accessibility requirements than ever before. Increasing levels of funding are being given to students, with the chief amongst those being the Disabled Students’ Allowance (DSA).

Introduced in 1993, the DSA gives someone in higher education a small bursary to help support them financially through their time at university. But how much can they expect to receive? And who qualifies? There are lots of ifs, ands, or buts regarding the allowance. That’s why we’ve compiled this handy guide discussing all aspects of the DSA, and what they mean for you.

Read on to discover how much you might be able to claim, as well as how to, if you’re a student with a disability.

https://www.comparethemarket.com/loans/content/disabled-students-allowance-guide/


Amazing ApprenticeshipsAmazing Apprenticeships are passionate about widening access to opportunity through apprenticeships, and this means ensuring that information and inspiration are available in a variety of accessible ways.

Please use this page to explore the different resources that we have developed, working closely with the SEND Advisory Network – a collaboration of more than 100 careers professionals from throughout England.

https://www.amazingapprenticeships.com/send/