Special Needs Planning: The Podcast
Special Needs Planning: The Podcast
Podcast Description
Welcome to Special Needs Planning: The Podcast created by SENDA (Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Advisers: www.senda.org.uk).
We are a group of like-minded professionals who are passionate about empowering Advisers to help enable thousands of special needs families have secure financial and legal futures.
And how do you think we’re going to do this? Yep, you got it. By providing for them in the right way, protecting them and preparing them for a fulfilling future life.
Join us as we keep learning more and in doing so, improve outcomes for some of our most vulnerable clients.
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast covers a variety of themes related to special needs planning, including financial planning, legal insights, and personal experiences. Specific episodes discuss topics like the Child Trust Fund access campaign, financial literacy for SEND families, and personal stories from SEND parents advocating for better financial outcomes.

Welcome to Special Needs Planning: The Podcast created by SENDA
We’re on a mission – creating secure financial futures for every kind of life and every kind of family.
And we’d love you to join us on that journey.
We want to transform the advice market in Special Needs Planning. And that starts with you.
Why?
Because families with SEND dependents have very different financial and inheritance planning needs from those without.
Join us as we keep learning more and in doing so, improve outcomes for some of our most vulnerable clients.
In this episode we talk about how building neurodiverse practices into your advice business can lead to better outcomes for your ND clients.
In this brilliant episode, hear from Kate, a neurodiversity expert, talk about how simple changes to your business approach and language internally can significantly improve how you work with all your clients.
Find out more about Kate's work here:
Kate Faxen | LinkedInNeuroextraordinary | Celebrating minds that think differently
Meet Kate Faxen, Neurodiversity Expert, Author, ACC Coach, and Inclusion Strategist:
”I’m Kate Faxen, a late-diagnosed ADHDer and mum to neuroextraordinary twins.
With decades of experience shaping inclusive cultures, I advocate for neurodivergent talent and the families navigating complex, often inequitable systems. My first book, How to Hack the System: 66 Shortcuts to Becoming Your Neurodivergent Child’s Fiercest Advocate, is due for release in 2026. And I've just launched an online community for neurodivergent people as well as parents and carers of neurodivergent kids!
My purpose is simple: to help as many neuroextraordinary people as possible thrive.”
Financial planning
Special needs families
Disability financial planning
Special needs trusts
Financial security
Future planning
Estate planning
Wealth management
Vulnerable persons trust
Disabled persons trust
Discretionary trust
Will
Wills
Wills and trusts
Special needs parenting
Caregiver support
Family budgeting
Long-term care planning
Sibling planning
Guardianship
Life care planning
Caregiver financial stress
Court of protection
deputyship
Tax strategies for special needs
Government benefits
Financial aid for disabilities
Insurance for special needs families
Disability rights and finance
Inclusive financial education
Transition planning (school to adult life)
Advocacy and financial literacy
Navigating financial systems
Empowering special needs families
Enabling
SENDA
Special needs and disabilities
Disabled person
Disabled Children
Special Educational Needs
SEND
SEN
Education Health & Care Plan
EHCP
Financial planning
Personal finance
Wealth management
Financial literacy
Money management
Budgeting tips
Retirement planning
Investment strategies
Long-term financial goals
Financial independence
Budgeting basics
Saving strategies
Investing 101
Tax planning
Debt management
Credit scores
Emergency funds
Financial goals
Passive income
Estate planning
Life insurance
Critical Illness Insurance
Shareholder insurance
Key Person Insurance
Private Medical insurance
Millennials and money
Financial planning for families
Gen Z investing
Couples and money
Money tips for parents
Small business finances
How to build wealth
Financial freedom
Smart money moves
From debt to wealth
Money mindset
Master your money
Stop living paycheck to paycheck
Autism
Complex Autism
Special Needs Parent
Special Needs parenting
Autism Mum
Autism Dad
Specialist Schools
Financial Adviser
Financial Planner
IFA
Chartered Financial Planner

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