This years conference took take place virtually on the 25th of March 2023 - platform Microsoft Teams
Keynote speakers:
Tim Bowman Director of Stockport Education
Young Carers speaker - Katy Frankland & colleague from Signpost for Carers
Poverty Proofing speaker - Nicki White Senior School Improvement Adviser Primary
Conference Agenda
09.00 Registration
09.15 Welcome
09.20 Tim Bowman Stockport Director of Education
09.50 Young Carers in Schools
10.15 Workshops session 1
11.00 coffee/break - boil the kettle in advance
11.15 Workshops session 2
12.00 Key note speaker on Poverty Proofing -Nikki White
13.00 Close
There were 6 virtual workshop available over 2 sessions
- Safeguarding - led by Julia Storey, Senior Adviser Safeguarding Children in Education
- Finance - led by Peter Hughes CSS Finance Manager
- Impact of austerity on SEND - led by Tom Gadsby Senior School Improvement Adviser Primary & Rob Rogers Senior School Improvement Adviser Secondary
- Succession planning and recruitment for your board - led by Janet Myers, NGA Regional Lead(North West), NGA Consultant, National Leader of Governance.
- Diversity are we making progress - led by Nicole Hand Ethnic Diversity Head of Service & Pam Dunham Head of Governor Services
- Staff wellbeing - led by Tracey Higgins, Senior School Improvement Adviser Primary and Tanya Cross, Health and Wellbeing School Coordinator