The Bell Foundation offers a range of free resources to support EAL teaching and development within schools.
In January 2017, a free tool, the award-winning EAL Assessment Framework for Schools, was launched. The improved version of the Framework, published in 2019, is now accompanied by an interactive digital EAL Assessment Tracker and reporting tool.
This website offers a huge range of free advice and resources for the classroom to support learners with EAL. There is also information on online, blended, and face-to-face training courses, as well as free webinars. By developing the knowledge and skills of school staff the Foundation aims to improve the attainment of children who use EAL.
Refugee Week 2026 focuses on the theme of Courage. Courage isn’t always loud or bold. It can be found in simple acts. To support this, we’ve brought together a range of EAL resources that reflect the courage of learners from refugee backgrounds.
How does it feel to suddenly leave all that you know and travel far away to a new place with a new language and different ways to do things? What did the family travel in and what happened in the forest? Find out in this interactive and visual resource that follows the story of a mother and her two children who experience this.
The Bell Foundation's policy briefing on strengthening outcomes for learners who use English as an Additional Language (EAL) who also have a SEND
This paper provides The Bell Foundation's current position on the role that digital provision can play in ESOL in the UK.
Please note that we will be publishing a longer publication setting out our thinking and recommendations in further detail later in 2026.