If you are interested in exhibiting at CST’s SEND and Inclusion 2026, please get in touch with our Partnerships Team at partnerships@cstuk.org.uk.
Academy21 is the first online alternative provision to be accredited by the DfE. We exist to support young people, their schools, and families and to provide a supportive pathway through their education and on to successful futures.
We work collaboratively with schools, trusts, and local authorities to ensure that the students placed with us receive the education they need and deserve, with tailored timetables, the right balance of subjects and SEN or additional needs catered for.
Our fully qualified, subject-specialist teachers provide 100% live lessons that are adaptive and engaging with weekly progress monitoring accessible in our custom-built, user-friendly portals. Find out more: academy21.co.uk
Browne Jacobson is one of the leading law firms operating in the sector. Our education team deliver a comprehensive portfolio of legal and HR services to schools, academy trust and local authorities nationally. We champion fairness, make the complex simple and forge connections between clients to find creative solutions. This is how our lawyers improve outcomes for every person, community, education institution and business we serve. We're part of an elite group of law firms ranked in Band One nationally for advising schools by both independent legal directories, Legal 500 and Chambers UK. We're proud to be seven-times winner of the EducationInvestor award for legal services for education and to be ranked by the Times and Sunday Times as a top education law firm for 2025.
Find out more: brownejacobson.com
Chalkie helps teachers create lessons in seconds. Simply pick a topic and let AI do the heavy lifting - generating fun, accurate, curriculum-aligned slides, lesson series, and activity sheets that are ready to share, export, or print. Designed with teachers, for teachers, Chalkie gives you back the time and freedom to focus on what truly matters.
Find out more: chalkie.ai
Crick Software is dedicated to making learning accessible for every child and enhancing literacy provision through inclusive technology. We design software that supports pupils of all abilities, ensuring everyone experiences the joy of success. Our products, Clicker and DocsPlus, cater to diverse needs across primary and secondary education, including students with dyslexia, physical disabilities and struggling readers and writers. With Clicker, pupils transition from heavily relying on staff support to confidently accessing their work independently, leading to improved outcomes. DocsPlus simplifies exam access arrangements, allowing students to showcase their true abilities independently, without needing human scribes or readers.
Find out more: cricksoft.com
EntrySign is at the forefront of advanced visitor and contractor management, being the preferred sign-in solution for countless schools and organisations globally. EntrySign are committed to providing the latest innovations, features, and integrations to elevate on-site security, optimise building entry, enhance safety procedures, and improve regulatory compliance. EntrySign empowers organisations with a solution to effortlessly and efficiently sign in, secure and safeguard their people and premises every day.
Find out more: entrysign.co.uk
FBB partners with schools to re-engage students who are struggling with behaviour, attendance, or confidence. We specialise in creating a deep sense of belonging through long-term, relational support that combines a social and emotional curriculum, therapeutic mentoring, and football-based learning. Our full-day presence in school helps shift habits, strengthen relationships, and remove barriers to learning. Trusted by schools nationwide, FBB provides consistent, highly trained practitioners who become a seamless extension of your pastoral and inclusion team.
Find out more: footballbeyondborders.org
IDLS Group Ltd has a range of software products successfully used by thousands of pupils around the world. Our programmes have been designed to mainly help school age pupils age 7- 13 years. Choose from: IDL Literacy to help pupils improve reading and spelling ability, particularly if they have dyslexia/dyslexic tendencies - comes with a complementary screening tool to highlight weaknesses specific to dyslexia; IDL Numeracy to help pupils improve Maths, particulary if they have dyscalculia/maths anxiety - comes with a complementary screening tool to highlight weaknesses specific to dyscalculia and a tool to help learn times tables; IDL Wellbing designed to help pupils identify and understand feelings, improving overall mental health and resilience. FREE TRIALS AVAILABLE.
Find out more: idlsgroup.com
Dynamo Maths and Dynamo Post16 are specialized award-winning and evidence-based programmes designed to support intervention for learners with dyscalculia and maths learning difficulties. Successfully used to evidence towards EHCP, EEA and DSA. Find out more: dynamomaths.co.uk
Created and supported by our team of speech and language therapists, Speech Link and Language Link are award-winning, online speech and language assessments, interventions, staff training and resources empowering schools in their work with speech, language and communication needs (SLCN). Our packages, available in annual subscriptions, support pupils aged 4-14 years. The robust assessments allow school staff to quickly screen all students; enabling early identification of speech, language and communication needs (SLCN). Our whole-school approach aims to ensure that no student falls under the radar, that those with severe needs are identified for discussions with specialists where appropriate and that every student reaches their full potential.
Find out more: speechandlanguage.link
The Supporting Education Group is proud to launch its SEND & Inclusion Hub and our trust-wide SEND provision evaluation and reporting tool: SEND Lens. Our SEND & Inclusion Hub unifies SEND support from across the group under one roof. Combining specialist services, recruitment, training, and sector-leading insights, we act as a single point of contact for trust leaders seeking to improve student outcomes. And our SEND Lens tool is designed to provide your trust with a detailed report, aligned to the SEND White Paper and the new Ofsted EIF, with clear priority areas to support evidence-based decision-making and improvement planning.
Find out more: supportingeducation.com/send-hub
Sync supports schools and trusts across the UK, aiding in the adoption, deployment, and ongoing use of technology. This includes the provision of hardware and software solutions as well as training, technical support, and more. Our approach covers everything from helping schools introduce the latest devices into the classroom, guiding CPD and curriculum strategies. Meanwhile our work with Apple Financial Services and recycle scheme ensures older devices never go to waste.
Get in touch with our education team about the right solution for your institution today: Phone: 0161 605 3838 Email: education@wearesync.co.uk
Find out more: wearesync.co.uk
Teaching Personnel, proudly part of Supporting Education Group, is the UK’s largest education staffing provider. Now in our 30th year, we work with more than 6,000 schools and multi-academy trusts, delivering teachers, support staff and tuition through a dedicated network of more than 18,000 flexible educators. With more than 80 branches across 25 locations, we combine national scale with local relationships. Our Early Years, Primary, Secondary and SEND specialists understand the pressures schools face and match the right people to the right settings, quickly and with care. For larger trust groups, our product SupplyBank helps centralise staffing, offering a 99% booking fill rate and average savings of £22 per booking per day.
Find out more: teachingpersonnel.com
Tes has been working with schools and teachers for over 100 years. From the first edition of Tes magazine, in 1910, we've been providing news, opinion and content, valued by the whole education sector. Our software products and services provide schools around the world with solutions for staff and student management, safeguarding, wellbeing, learning planning, timetabling, recruitment and more; many support students with special education needs and learning difficulties, helping schools meet the needs of diverse student populations.
Find out more: tes.com
We are Widgit, a pioneering software company with a passion for symbols-based communication. We empower individuals to express themselves independently through symbols, aiding comprehension and understanding across any environment. Our Widgit Online and InPrint software give users access to our entire symbol language, designed to meet the unique needs of symbol users across a multitude of settings.
Find out more: widgit.com