This one day in-person conference will support leaders in taking a proactive approach to pastoral leadership, including exploring how pastoral leaders, DSLs, inclusion leads in schools and across trusts deal with constantly changing priorities.

The event will support leaders to strengthen systems and processes and enable improvement, adopting a proactive rather than reactive response to competing educational demands.

This is an invaluable opportunity to focus on current whole-school priorities of attendance, behaviour and inclusion and how they relate to rising SEND, mental health and wellbeing and disadvantage gaps. This conference will also enable pastoral leaders to strengthen school provision and practice.

Speakers include:
• Dr Kaitlyn Regehr, Associate Professor of Digital Humanities at UCL, who will be identifying the escalating challenges, despite an online safety act, of online misogyny and what schools can be doing to respond effectively.
• Victoria Raynor, Safeguarding Consultant will be exploring the practical approaches that schools must adopt to safeguarding and strengthen wellbeing.
• Tom Middlehurst, ASCL Curriculum, Assessment and Inspection Specialist, will review pastoral priorities for Ofsted inspections.
• Panel experts will include Phil Jones NAPCE and ASCL Council leaders.