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asen will receive £3.4 million over 2 years from the DfE as part of their recent success in a bid to support the


workforce in SEND. Working alongside the University College London’s (UCL)


Centre for Inclusive Education, and other partners, the new project will seek to: 1. drive education institutions to prioritise SEND within their continuing professional development and school improvement plans including facilitating greater links between mainstream and special schools.


2. equip schools to identify and meet their training needs, so that they can go on to deliver high quality teaching in SEND.


3. build the skills of teachers working in mainstream and special schools and of SENCOs and teachers of classes of children and young people with sensory impairments by promoting best practice.


4. identify and respond to any gaps in training and resources available to schools.


uwww.nasen.org.uk


ONELAN acquired by US-based Uniguest O


NELAN, a global leader in digital visual communications, today announced their acquisition by Uniguest, a Nashville-based cybersecurity


technology specialist in the secure operating system space. Uniguest delivers market-leading solutions which assist customers in driving guest, shopper, and resident engagement in the hospitality, office retail, and community living industries respectively. The acquisition will strengthen ONELAN’s presence in the US, with


customers and partners benefiting from Uniguest’s team of 180 US-based staff and a further 75-person 24/7 call center. With clear synergies between the two customer-centric organizations, the


acquisition presents Uniguest the opportunity to become a truly global company, with its customers able to access ONELAN’s leading digital signage and visual communications solutions as a natural extension to their current portfolio of products. ONELAN is a global leader in developing and managing visual applications


such as digital signage, wayfinding, and meeting space bookings. Its footprint spans across 6,000 projects in 50 countries and operates in the education, corporate, retail and hospitality sectors. For the near future, ONELAN will continue to operate as a stand-alone


business with its current team members out of the Reading, U.K. headquarters. Uniguest will add the signage offerings into its solution set, and the products will immediately be available to Uniguest clients.


uwww.onelan.com


New study reveals fatty acid supplement provides ‘learning support’ to children struggling at school


“Our review clearly showed that improving children’s intakes of a specific


formulation with an optimal ratio of 9:3:1 ratio of omega 3 and 6 fatty acids found in Equazen, had a marked beneficial effect on reading ability, spelling, behaviour and attention. Conversely, Equazen helped to lower hyperactivity and aggression which would tend to put children in a better frame of mind to learn.” Dr Derbyshire adds: “Equazen’s fatty acid specific ratio provides the


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new research review just published in the Journal of Nutrition and Food Sciences[1] has found that a simple dietary intervention – a fatty acid


supplement - Equazen™ – could make all the difference to children struggling at school. The review pulled together results from 29 randomised controlled trials,


the highest quality evidence available, which involved feeding children supplements containing different amounts of fatty acids such as omega-3s and omega-6s. Out of these, 22 studies involving more than 3000 children revealed significant benefits for learning, focus and behaviour. Author, Dr Emma Derbyshire, a nutritionist who specialises in children’s


diets, said: “Helping children to learn and focus is a central part of education. Given that the human brain is around 60 per cent fat, it’s reasonable to assume that the level and type of fats in our bodies will influence brain function and performance.


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functional building blocks our brains need after the age of 2 as our brains, like our eyes are fully developed at the age of two. It is this fatty acid supplement ratio which has produced the strongest clinical effects especially among children with ADHD or learning difficulties, children with low baseline levels of fatty acids in their blood, and those who were already underperforming. Therefore, I believe that getting blood fatty acid levels right could be a vital step in providing learning support to children who are struggling at school”. Dr Derbyshire’s findings support a growing body of evidence which


suggests that low blood levels of omega-3s, typically caused by low fish consumption, are detrimental to learning and behaviour.


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