Designing Schools for Tomorrow’s Needs: Rethinking Mainstream Estates for Future SEND Adaptations
05 Feb 2026
Stage 1
As SEND demand grows, schools must adapt existing estates to create inclusive, future-ready environments. This panel session will explore how existing school buildings and campuses can be adapted and reconfigured; and highlight scalable, affordable design and estate strategies that unlock latent capacity, support inclusion and wellbeing, and enable schools to accommodate SEND provision in a way that is flexible, sustainable and future-ready.
Chairperson







