Summer Conference 2025: Better for Everyone
1st July Agenda

To help you navigate the day, we’ve labelled sessions by role: School Leader / SENCO, Local Authority Leader, MAT Leader (SEND/Inclusion), and Trust Leader. These labels are there to highlight relevance, but they’re just a guide, so feel free to join any session that interests you.

8.30am — Registration

9.30am — Opening (taking place in your first Breakout Session room)

9.45am

1st July 2025
Amjad Ali: Inclusive, Adaptive teaching — essential knowledge and practical strategies to support pupils with SEN
SENCO / School Leader
Amjad Ali: Inclusive, Adaptive teaching — essential knowledge and practical strategies to support pupils with SEN
SENCO / School Leader
SENCO / School Leader
Ben Whittaker: AI for All — leveraging AI and other tech to make a difference beyond simple efficiencies and task substitution
SENCO / School Leader
Ben Whittaker: AI for All — leveraging AI and other tech to make a difference beyond simple efficiencies and task substitution
SENCO / School Leader
SENCO / School Leader
Caroline Essame: Laying the foundations for learning and using the sensory checklist
SENCO / School Leader
Caroline Essame: Laying the foundations for learning and using the sensory checklist
SENCO / School Leader
SENCO / School Leader
Cathy Seal: Creating a culture of relational practice in your setting
SENCO / School Leader
Cathy Seal: Creating a culture of relational practice in your setting
SENCO / School Leader
SENCO / School Leader
Emma McCrea: Empowering SENCOs to train teachers on inclusive lesson design
SENCO / School Leader
Emma McCrea: Empowering SENCOs to train teachers on inclusive lesson design
SENCO / School Leader
SENCO / School Leader
Emma Shackleton: From Firefighting to Forward Planning — Practical Strategies for supporting dysregulated students
SENCO / School Leader
Emma Shackleton: From Firefighting to Forward Planning — Practical Strategies for supporting dysregulated students
SENCO / School Leader
SENCO / School Leader
Susana Castro-Kemp: Moving beyond diagnoses and labels to promote positive changes in practice
SENCO / School Leader
Susana Castro-Kemp: Moving beyond diagnoses and labels to promote positive changes in practice
SENCO / School Leader
SENCO / School Leader
Edwina Grant: Bringing systems together around children
Local Authority Leader
Edwina Grant: Bringing systems together around children
Local Authority Leader
Local Authority Leader
David Bartram OBE: Turning a MAT inclusion strategy into impactful practice
MAT Leader (SEND/Inclusion)
David Bartram OBE: Turning a MAT inclusion strategy into impactful practice
MAT Leader (SEND/Inclusion)
MAT Leader (SEND/Inclusion)
Professor Toby Greany & Eleanor Bernades: MAT Organisation Development and Action Learning (9.30am-12.15pm)
Trust Leader
Professor Toby Greany & Eleanor Bernades: MAT Organisation Development and Action Learning (9.30am-12.15pm)
Trust Leader
Trust Leader
Trust Network Sharing Session (9.30am-12.15pm)
Trust Leader
Trust Network Sharing Session (9.30am-12.15pm)
Trust Leader
Trust Leader

10.45am

11.35am — Break

11.55am

1st July 2025
Come and discuss (Primary): Inclusive leadership and culture
SENCO / School Leader
Come and discuss (Primary): Inclusive leadership and culture
SENCO / School Leader
SENCO / School Leader
Come and discuss (Primary): Inclusive pedagogy and curriculum
SENCO / School Leader
Come and discuss (Primary): Inclusive pedagogy and curriculum
SENCO / School Leader
SENCO / School Leader
Come and discuss (Primary): Meeting a wide range of needs
SENCO / School Leader
Come and discuss (Primary): Meeting a wide range of needs
SENCO / School Leader
SENCO / School Leader
Come and discuss (Secondary): Inclusive leadership and culture
SENCO / School Leader
Come and discuss (Secondary): Inclusive leadership and culture
SENCO / School Leader
SENCO / School Leader
Come and discuss (Secondary): Inclusive pedagogy and curriculum
SENCO / School Leader
Come and discuss (Secondary): Inclusive pedagogy and curriculum
SENCO / School Leader
SENCO / School Leader
Come and discuss (Secondary): Meeting a wide range of needs
SENCO / School Leader
Come and discuss (Secondary): Meeting a wide range of needs
SENCO / School Leader
SENCO / School Leader
Margaret Mulholland: Our children, our responsibility: new leadership practices for inclusion
SENCO / School Leader
Margaret Mulholland: Our children, our responsibility: new leadership practices for inclusion
SENCO / School Leader
SENCO / School Leader
Caroline Essame: Nature matters — Rethinking what lies beneath some of the challenges facing multi agency responses to behaviour
Local Authority Leader
Caroline Essame: Nature matters — Rethinking what lies beneath some of the challenges facing multi agency responses to behaviour
Local Authority Leader
Local Authority Leader
Cassie Young: Embedding Inclusion from the ground up — How trust-wide Teaching and Learning Principles shape equitable classrooms.
MAT Leader (SEND/Inclusion)
Cassie Young: Embedding Inclusion from the ground up — How trust-wide Teaching and Learning Principles shape equitable classrooms.
MAT Leader (SEND/Inclusion)
MAT Leader (SEND/Inclusion)
Professor Toby Greany & Eleanor Bernades: MAT Organisation Development and Action Learning (9.30am-12.15pm)
Trust Leader
Professor Toby Greany & Eleanor Bernades: MAT Organisation Development and Action Learning (9.30am-12.15pm)
Trust Leader
Trust Leader
Trust Network Sharing Session (9.30am-12.15pm)
Trust Leader
Trust Network Sharing Session (9.30am-12.15pm)
Trust Leader
Trust Leader

12.45pm — Lunch

2.05pm

3.00pm

3.50pm — Closing reflections

4.00pm — Conference Close