Maximise the impact of Inclusive Mainstream Funding across every school in your trust
The Inclusive Mainstream Fund is a significant investment in mainstream inclusion – helping schools improve early identification and support, reduce barriers to attendance and participation, and ensure more children succeed in their local mainstream school.
SEND need is at a record high
The latest government statistics (June 2026) show why early, evidence-based provision matters more than ever.
20%+
of children are now identified as needing SEND support
1.3m
children are receiving SEN support across England
Over half
of all primary needs identified are SLCN and SEMH
31 Dec
deadline to publish your school’s Inclusion Strategy
Source: Special educational needs in England, Department for Education (2025–26).
Download our free Inclusion Strategy Preparation Toolkit
A practical planning companion to the DfE Inclusion Strategy Template, updated with national SEND benchmark data. Inside the free 25-page toolkit you will:
- Benchmark your SEND profile against national DfE 2025/26 data
- Map your provision against the 7 inclusion themes
- Pinpoint the barriers to learning that matter most for your pupils
- Link your priorities, IMF funding and intended outcomes
- Draft a statement of intent, ready to drop into the DfE template
Turn Inclusive Mainstream Funding into measurable impact across your trust
Build a strong, inclusive culture with three evidence-informed approaches – available now and deployable at speed across every school in your trust.
A trust-wide approach to strengthening inclusion, building capability and evidencing impact.
Thrive is a whole-school approach that helps schools identify and understand SEMH needs, strengthen relational practice, and create environments where children feel safe and ready to learn. Thrive works with trusts to provide staff training, pupil wellbeing tracking and targeted support at scale.
What you get:
- CPD and tools to strengthen SEMH practice across your whole workforce
- Licensed Practitioner training and Thrive-Online subscriptions
- Whole-school staff development and leadership development
- Inclusion strategy development support, evaluation and impact reporting
- Improves pupil engagement, behaviour and wellbeing, and embeds consistent practice across settings
From £3,000 per school
Includes a one-off Licensed Practitioner training fee and annual Thrive-Online subscription.
A trust-wide approach to strengthening the provision for speech, language and communication needs (SLCN).
Speech & Language Link connects identification, intervention, training and transition to support SLCN across a pupil’s whole-school pathway. It gives trusts a standardised, scalable, pre-referral solution that helps schools identify need accurately and act early.
What you get:
- Whole-school identification and intervention for SLCN – standardised and scalable across your trust
- Primary pathway (EYFS–KS2): Little Link, Infant and Junior Language Link, Speech Link, online training and the SLCN Support Certificate
- Secondary pathway (KS3): Secondary Language Link, online training and the SLCN Support Certificate
- Evidence-led reporting to inform progress measures and upskilling for teaching support staff
- Facilitates appropriate referrals and access to Experts at Hand, with trust-wide implementation built on an SLCN audit
Find out how we can help you to support speech and language
Universal and Targeted Provision for SLCN
Commit to just 100 hours of academic tuition across your trust and receive six hours of attendance mentoring free.
TP Tutors combines targeted tuition with online attendance mentoring to address learning gaps, engagement and the wider barriers to education. The 100 hours can be pooled across your trust and directed to the priority learners, cohorts or subjects where need is greatest, online or in person. Once the tuition is delivered, six one-hour mentoring sessions begin for a consistent group of up to six learners.
How it works:
- Commit – to 100 hours of academic tuition, online or in person
- Deliver – use the tuition across your schools by the end of the current academic year
- Mentor – six one-hour online sessions begin once tuition is delivered
What you get:
- Targeted academic support to close gaps, consolidate learning and rebuild confidence
- Structured space for pupils to understand the barriers affecting attendance, identify practical strategies and strengthen their engagement with education
- Flexible delivery pooled across your trust, so central teams can direct hours to the schools under most pressure
- Specialists trained in safeguarding, and in Speech & Language Link and Thrive-informed techniques
- Managed coordination and quality assurance, with LEAP reporting on attendance, engagement and progress at pupil, cohort and trust level
100 hours of tuition = 6 free mentoring hours
One trust-level agreement, with mentoring delivered online for a consistent group of up to six learners.
Scalable alternative provision and inclusion capacity across every school in your trust.
Fleet Education Services brings you Future Ready, together with LMP Action, to support KS3 and KS4 pupils facing persistent absence, reduced timetables, suspension risk or placement breakdown. Small-group provision helps pupils rebuild confidence, routine and readiness for their next step, while remaining connected to their home academy – with a planned route back into school built in from the start.
One model. Deployed your way. Future Ready can be delivered onsite at an academy, offsite, or as a combination across your trust – from a hosted inclusion hub to a shared pop-up site or a flexible bank of trust places.
What you get:
- Academic continuity and attendance routine, with Fleet leading academic delivery
- Relational support and vocational and enrichment pathways, with LMP Action providing mentoring and site-based support
- Safeguarding visibility and agreed reporting through your academy and central trust routes
- A clear journey from referral and learner profile to induction, review and next step back into school
- Central reporting across academies, cohorts or sites to evidence targeted inclusion activity
Create capacity. Evidence impact.
A single SLA and invoice can be agreed at trust level, giving you pop-up capacity while internal inclusion-base provision develops. Speak to us about Future Ready, or arrange a visit to a Future Ready site.
Aligned with the Department for Education’s priorities
Early identification
Whole-cohort screening that surfaces predictable needs early.
Workforce development
Training and certification that build lasting in-house capability.
Universal and targeted provision
Evidence-based support across every tier of the framework.
Improved pupil outcomes
Better attendance, engagement, wellbeing and progress.
One Hub. Every layer covered.
Explore how your trust can deploy Inclusive Mainstream Funding effectively. Complete the form below and we will connect you with the relevant people to arrange your discovery call(s).