{"id":68461,"date":"2024-09-16T16:47:39","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T16:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bmaba.org.uk\/clubs\/?page_id=68461"},"modified":"2026-08-20T21:34:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T21:34:40","slug":"bmaba-martial-arts-senco-special-educational-needs-coordinator-award","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bmaba.org.uk\/clubs\/uk-martial-arts-association-governing-body-instructor-membership\/martial-arts-certification-licensing\/bmaba-martial-arts-senco-special-educational-needs-coordinator-award\/","title":{"rendered":"BMABA Martial Arts SENCO (Special Educational Needs Coordinator) Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\"BMABA\n\t\t\t\t\tSEND In Martial Arts .<\/i> Levels 1 & 2<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t

Every Instructor Already Teaches Students Who Learn Differently<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t

Special Educational Needs and Disabilities covers autism, ADHD, dyslexia, dyspraxia, sensory processing differences, physical disability, speech and language needs and a great deal more. It is in every club in the country, including yours, whether or not anyone has told you.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t

Level 1 is free for everyone, permanently.<\/strong> Affiliate, Bronze, Silver, Gold, assistants and volunteers. Level 2 is included with Silver and Gold.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t

\n\t\t\t\t\t\tStart Level 1 Free<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe full syllabus<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\tTwo Levels, Two Different Jobs<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t

The Full Running Order For Both<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t

Every lesson, in the order you study it. Nothing summarised away.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFree for everyone, forever<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

Level 1: Practitioner<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

For every instructor, assistant instructor and volunteer who steps onto the mats.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

Level 1 is about your own practice. What SEND actually means, where you stand legally, why SEND students carry additional safeguarding vulnerability, and then the practical work: adapting how you communicate, modifying drills and session structure, working properly with parents and carers, and knowing where your competence ends.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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  1. Course Introduction<\/li>
  2. What SEND means and why it matters in martial arts<\/li>
  3. The legal and policy framework: your obligations as an instructor<\/li>
  4. SEND and safeguarding: understanding additional vulnerability<\/li>
  5. Adapting communication and instruction for SEND participants<\/li>
  6. Modifying technique, drills and session structure<\/li>
  7. Working with parents, carers and support networks<\/li>
  8. Creating and using Individual Learning Plans<\/li>
  9. Managing the SEN register and club-level records<\/li>
  10. Knowing your limits: when and how to refer on<\/li>
  11. SEND Level 1 Final Examination<\/li>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ol>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
    11 lessons<\/span>Final exam<\/span>Same-day certificate<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/article>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t
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    \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIncluded with Silver & Gold<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

    Level 2: Coordinator<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

    For the Lead Instructor or club lead holding the overview across the whole club.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

    Level 2 is about the club rather than the class. Writing and implementing a SEND policy, running the SEN register and the ILP framework, briefing and quality-assuring other instructors, coordinating with external professionals, managing provision at events and gradings, escalation and multi-agency referral, and then evaluating whether any of it is actually working.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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    1. Introduction<\/li>
    2. What a club SEND Coordinator is, what they are not, and why it matters<\/li>
    3. The SEND Coordinator within club governance: safeguarding, leadership and accountability<\/li>
    4. Building and implementing a club SEND policy<\/li>
    5. Overseeing the SEN register and ILP framework at club level<\/li>
    6. Developing other instructors: briefing, supporting and quality-assuring inclusive practice<\/li>
    7. Working with parents, carers and external professionals at a coordination level<\/li>
    8. Managing SEND provision at events, gradings and competitions<\/li>
    9. Recognising and responding to complex SEND needs<\/li>
    10. Safeguarding at SEND Coordinator level: escalation, multi-agency liaison and formal referral<\/li>
    11. SEND, mental health and trauma: understanding the overlap<\/li>
    12. Evaluating your club’s SEND provision<\/li>
    13. Continuous improvement: using feedback, data and reflection<\/li>
    14. Building an inclusive club culture that lasts<\/li>
    15. SEND Level 2 Final Examination<\/li>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ol>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
      15 lessons<\/span>Final exam<\/span>Same-day certificate<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/article>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/section>\n\n\t\t\t
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      \n\t\t\t\t\t\tIndividual Learning Plans<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

      The Training Teaches ILPs. The Platform Runs Them.<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

      Most inclusion training ends at the certificate and leaves you to work out the paperwork yourself, usually in a spreadsheet that lives on one person’s laptop. A document naming a child’s diagnoses, triggers and support needs deserves better handling than that.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

      Individual Learning Plans are built into the free Club Management Platform. Each SEND student has a plan on their own record: what they need, what works, what to avoid, what to do if things go wrong. It sits in the CRM alongside everything else you hold on that student, which means the right instructors can see it, cover instructors are not working blind, and it is never trapped in a filing cabinet at home.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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      Secure by default<\/strong>Inside a system certified to ISO 27001:2022 under UKAS accreditation, not a shared spreadsheet<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
      Everyone informed<\/strong>Instructors, assistants and cover staff see what they need to, when they need it<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
      Parents included<\/strong>Plans are built with families rather than about them, and shared back<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
      The SEN register too<\/strong>Club-level oversight, which is exactly what Level 2 teaches you to run<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tRead our National SEN Policy<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/section>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t
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      Qualifications That Move When The Sector Moves<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t

      A governing body that never changes its own qualifications is not being consistent, it is being inattentive. Our CPD catalogue is reviewed on a rolling cadence rather than left to age, and reviewed again out of cycle whenever something material shifts: new legislation, updated statutory guidance, a sector-wide review, or clubs telling us that what we teach no longer matches what they are dealing with.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

      This course was previously the SENCO Award. SENCO is a regulated role in the school system with a legislated meaning, and a martial arts instructor holding a club-level award should never be mistaken for someone holding the statutory school qualification. It became SEND Level 1, Practitioner, and SEND Level 2, Coordinator. If you hold the old award it still stands.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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      \n\t\t\t\t\t\tRolling review, not a rewrite when it is embarrassing<\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tCourses carry a review cycle and are revisited on it. Most CPD refreshes on a two-year validity, at which point you simply re-enrol and work through the current version. Coaching qualifications do not expire.<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t
      \n\t\t\t\t\t\tOut-of-cycle when the ground moves<\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSignificant legislative change, new statutory guidance or a major sector review triggers a review immediately rather than waiting for the next scheduled one.<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t
      \n\t\t\t\t\t\tTold in advance, through the Governance Group<\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tChanges reach members before they land, not afterwards. Where a course splits into levels, the convention is Level 1 at practitioner level and Level 2 at coordinator or lead level.<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t
      \n\t\t\t\t\t\tNothing you have earned is taken away<\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tWe will never release updated CPD in a way that wipes a prior verification, knocks out a linked standard such as Club Colours, or forces you to restart an award because the schedule changed.<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

      Our workforce of instructors, assistant instructors and volunteers is who this is for. When their job changes, the training that supports it should already have changed, rather than catching up afterwards.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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      \n\t\t\t\t\t\tInclusive Martial Arts<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

      A Campaign, Not A Badge<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

      Inclusive Martial Arts is our standing commitment to make the mats reachable for people who have historically been quietly left off them. Not through a poster or a pledge, but through the boring, structural things that actually change who walks through the door: free training that every instructor can reach, a national SEN policy clubs can adopt, ILP tooling built into the software, and adaptive practice written into the coaching pathway rather than bolted on at the end.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

      Making Level 1 free on every tier, including free affiliate membership, is the clearest statement of that we can make. Inclusion training that some instructors cannot afford is not inclusion training.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/section>\n\n\t\t\t

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      \n\t\t\t\t\tWhy This Certificate Carries Weight<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t

      Anybody Can Publish A Course. Rather Fewer Can Stand Behind One.<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t

      Inclusion training is a crowded market and a lot of it is generic disability awareness with a martial arts photograph on the front. Here is what sits behind ours.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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      \n\t\t\t\t\t\tCIMSPA<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

      Endorsed Training Provider<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

      BMABA is a CIMSPA Endorsed Training Provider, and we map our qualifications to a recognised professional standard wherever one exists. Mapped is not the same as endorsed: a course is only formally CIMSPA Endorsed CPD once it has been submitted, reviewed and certified, and we say so on the course itself when it has.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t\t

      \n\t\t\t\t\t\tUKRLP<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

      UK Register Of Learning Providers<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

      We are listed on the UK Register of Learning Providers under UKPRN 10098149<\/strong>, the government-maintained record of organisations delivering learning in the United Kingdom. Check our listing<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t\t

      \n\t\t\t\t\t\tISO 9001:2015<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

      Certified Quality Management<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

      Certified under UKAS accreditation via the British Assessment Bureau. Course content is version-controlled, reviewed on a cycle and traceable, which is exactly why the SENCO Award became two levels rather than quietly drifting out of date.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t\t

      \n\t\t\t\t\t\tISO 27001:2022<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

      Certified Information Security<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

      Also UKAS accredited, with zero non-conformities at our most recent audit. That matters more here than on most courses: Individual Learning Plans and SEN registers hold some of the most sensitive data a club will ever handle.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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      Government-Backed Baseline<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

      We hold Cyber Essentials certification, the UK government-backed scheme covering the technical controls that stop the overwhelming majority of common attacks.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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      Recognised And In The Room<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

      We publish a National SEN Policy the sector can adopt, hold a seat on the Martial Arts Safeguarding Group, sit on a CIMSPA advisory board, and are named in Sport England’s own safeguarding guidance for martial arts.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/section>\n\n\t\t\t

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      Level 1 Really Is On Every Tier<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t

      Straight from the membership inclusion handbook, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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      Affiliate (free)<\/strong>Level 1 included<\/span>Alongside Induction and CHIMA<\/em><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
      Bronze<\/strong>Level 1 included<\/span>Plus the full coaching pathway<\/em><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
      Silver & Gold<\/strong>Levels 1 and 2<\/span>Full access to all current and future CPD<\/em><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
      Assistant Instructors<\/strong>Level 1 included<\/span>With Child Safeguarding and First Aid<\/em><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
      Volunteers<\/strong>Level 1 included<\/span>With Induction, Safeguarding and CHIMA<\/em><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
      Management accounts<\/strong>No CPD access<\/span>Access sits with the people on the mats<\/em><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\tCheck It In The Handbook<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/section>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t
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      \n\t\t\t\t\tTrain Anywhere, Anytime<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t

      Study It In The Car Park Between Classes If That Is What Works<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t

      Our qualifications and awards are delivered entirely online through our own learning platform, on the website or in the BMABA app. Phone, tablet, laptop, whatever you have in your hand.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t

      Your place is saved as you go, so you can do a lesson on your lunch break, another while the kids are at training, and finish the exam on a Sunday evening. Nothing expires part way through and nothing has to be done in one sitting.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

      Level 1 costs nothing on any tier, so the only barrier left is time. That is why it is built to be done in pieces around the day job.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t