Writing on SEND practice, AI in inclusion, and the work of building tools that respect professional judgment.
6 August 2026
Most EP, SaLT, and clinical reports are written in careful, hedged language for good reason. Here's how OMNIA reads them into a plan without ever turning a possibility into a diagnosis.
By Chris Pressdee-Rudd · 5 min read
19 July 2026
By Chris Pressdee-Rudd · 5 min readDfE has published its first dedicated guidance on inclusion bases. Here's what it actually asks schools to track, and why most schools aren't set up to do it yet.
Read post12 July 2026
By Chris Pressdee-Rudd · 4 min readNine plain-English guides covering the SEND terms and processes parents, teachers, and new SENCos ask about most. Free to read, no sign-up, no gated PDFs.
Read post6 July 2026
By Chris Pressdee-Rudd · 6 min readQuality First Teaching gets treated as the thing you do before the real support starts. The EEF's new Inclusive Teaching guide is the clearest evidence yet that this framing has always been backwards.
Read post3 July 2026
By Chris Pressdee-Rudd · 6 min readSEND vocabulary is hard enough to follow in a parent's first language. In a second or third language, with no support, it becomes a wall. Here is what we built to take it down.
Read post30 June 2026
By Chris Pressdee-Rudd · 6 min readMost free tools from vendors exist to capture a lead first and be useful second. Ours are built the other way round.
Read post26 June 2026
By Chris Pressdee-Rudd · 5 min readEvery assessment a school does sits in a separate silo. CAT4 in one spreadsheet, Boxall in another, EAL bands on a Post-it. Nobody joins the dots. That's the problem OMNIA was built to solve.
Read post24 June 2026
By Chris Pressdee-Rudd · 5 min readThe specialist assessment gets the attention. But Part 1 of Form 8 is where most of the time actually goes — and where most of the risk sits.
Read post23 June 2026
By Chris Pressdee-Rudd · 7 min readTrust leadership conversations about SEND tend to focus on outcomes, compliance, and inclusion philosophy. That framing is increasingly out of step with reality.
Read post22 June 2026
By Chris Pressdee-Rudd · 7 min readEvery school has a provision map. Almost none of them are doing what a provision map is actually supposed to do.
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