EducaTED - The future of education support & improvement

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Join us as we bring our popular EducaTED series to Hull and East Yorkshire for the first time. This free event brings together expert insight from legal, financial and wellbeing specialists to help education leaders navigate a rapidly changing educational landscape.

Through a series of keynote presentations and specialist sessions, you'll gain practical insights to support school improvement, leadership, staff wellbeing and organisational resilience.

Topics include:

School improvement and educational leadership
Exploring how schools, colleges and trusts can create cultures of continuous learning, innovation and improvement.

Supporting and managing performance in a changing landscape
Practical guidance on navigating evolving expectations and supporting high-performing teams.

Staff wellbeing and resilience
A systemic approach to building healthy, sustainable cultures that enable staff and pupils to thrive.

Vision, values and organisational culture
Understanding the role leadership, culture and values play in long-term success.

Academy finance and regulatory updates
Key developments in DfE guidance and other financial considerations impacting the sector.

Guest speakers

We're delighted to welcome a range of experienced education and sector specialists:

Les Walton
Chair, Association of Education Advisors 

Jamie Portman
Executive Performance Officer, XP Trust

Stephen Logan
Principal Healing Academy, Harbour Learning Trust

Who should attend

This FREE event is suitable for heads, school business managers, senior leaders, trust leaders and governors. We're offering two places for your senior team, and an additional place for a director, governor or trustee.

What's included

• Breakfast & refreshments
• Networking opportunities with peers from across the education sector
• Practical takeaways to support your people, finances and organisational resilience 

Agenda

08:00 | Arrival & refreshments 

08:30 | Prompt start 

10:00 | Break 

10:30 | Presentations continue

12:30 | Close  

Speakers

Supporting and managing performance in a changing landscape.

As schools, colleges and trusts face increasing expectations around accountability and improvement, effective performance management is more important than ever. In this session, Caroline Neadley and Lucy Trynka will explore how education leaders can support staff development, address performance concerns fairly and confidently, and navigate an evolving employment law landscape.

Key takeaways:

• Managing performance fairly and effectively
• Understanding legal and compliance considerations
• Avoiding common capability and disciplinary pitfalls
• Creating a culture of continuous improvement

Resilience, recharge and reality - Supporting team wellbeing in education using a systemic approach

Staff wellbeing is often discussed in education, but what does meaningful support look like in practice? In this session, Alexis Powell-Howard will explore the realities of working in education, the emotional demands placed on staff, and how systems, culture and expectations can influence wellbeing. She will share practical approaches to creating environments where staff can thrive, not just survive.

Key takeaways:

• Understanding wellbeing in the context of education
• Recognising the impact of workplace culture and systems
• Moving beyond individual resilience as the sole solution
• Creating healthier, more sustainable environments for staff

Changes in DfE guidance and other hot topics impacting on academy finance

Partner at Forrester Boyd, specialising in audit, accounts, and advisory services for academies, charities, and not-for-profit organisations. With extensive experience in the education sector, Carrie provides practical, value-driven advice and is actively involved in national committees supporting training and best practice across the profession.

Guest speakers

The future of school support and improvement from a perspective of leadership and innovation

Les Walton CBE is a nationally recognised education leader, adviser and innovator. Founder of the Association of Education Advisers, he has held senior leadership roles across schools, colleges and government agencies, and continues to champion school improvement, leadership and educational excellence. Les’s career has seen him directly involved in almost all the significant changes in the education landscape stretching back to the 1960s.

In this thought-provoking session, Les will explore how school improvement is entering a new phase, shaped by evolving pressures and expectations across education. Drawing on decades of experience, he will examine how schools can build sustainable capacity for continuous learning, adaptation and improvement, creating systems that support long-term success and reduce reliance on external intervention.

Exploring school improvement and the support needed to sustain it

Jamie is the Associate Performance Officer for XP Trust’s Executive Team and also a former principal and senior leader in several North of England schools. Jamie will draw on his extensive knowledge and first-hand leadership experience to explore school improvement and the support needed to sustain it, offering valuable insights from the perspective of a senior leader.

Vision, values and culture in an era of changing expectations

Stephen is the Principal at Healing Academy, whose approach is to learn, improve, share and collaborate. Stephen will share his insights about the importance of maintaining vision, values and culture as school improvement enters a new era.

Data sharing

As this is a collaborative event, attendee details will be shared between the event hosts for the purposes of event administration and communication. Personal data will be processed in accordance with applicable data protection legislation and each organisation's privacy policy.