Online Live Workshop 
28 July 2026 
Description
This workshop situates school-based sensory integration practice within the policy, terminology, and service realities of the UK and Ireland. It considers how education, health, and care systems influence provision, role clarity, assessment language, and what schools think AHPs are for. It is designed to help participants work more confidently within the systems they actually have.
Learning outcomes:
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- describe key features of the school-based policy and practice context across the UK and Ireland
- identify factors that shape provision, terminology, and service delivery
- discuss tensions between ideal practice and real-world systems
- reflect on how policy context affects their own work
- locate their practice more confidently within current education, health, and care systems
Participants will learn it through policy and practice mapping, discuss it with colleagues from similar service contexts, apply it to their own systems, reflect on tensions and opportunities, and take it back into practice with stronger contextual awareness.
We know that school-based practice can look very different depending on your role, setting, and service model. Our small tutor groups are matched, as far as possible, by professional and practice context, for example, mainstream schools, specialist schools, visiting services, or integrated school-based roles. This helps OT, PT, SLT and wider AHP colleagues explore ideas in ways that feel relevant, supportive, and easier to take back into everyday practice.
Learn it. Discuss it. Apply it. Reflect on it. Take it back into practice.
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