HR Update: Practice and Law in Education - London - Programme

Ensure excellence and compliance in your HR processes and deepen your expertise with legal updates and advice.

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Hear more about the event from our chair Dai Durbridge in this short video:

Registration, refreshments and networking (09:00)

Welcome from Optimus Education (09:30)

Chair's welcome: What's on the horizon? (09:35)

Dai Durbridge, Partner, Browne Jacobson LLP

Strategic and smart HR (09:50)

How to look at employment law issues strategically, focusing on realistic risk and outcomes

Ian Deakin, Partner, Browne Jacobson LLP

Dai Durbridge, Partner, Browne Jacobson LLP

Panel: Equality, diversity and inclusion (10:20)

Explore the EDI framework and how schools are responding

Naseem Nabi, Partner, VWV

Nick Murrell, Associate, VWV

Staff Wellbeing (10.45)

Adaptable methods to create a culture of wellbeing that has a positive impact on staff retention and performance 

Kimberley Evans, Founder, Nourish the Workplace

Hear from Kimberley about her upcoming keynote

Questions and answers (11:05)

Morning refreshments, networking and exhibition (11:15 - 11:50)

Workshop choices (11:50 - 12:40)

1A. Recruitment and retention

Ensure robust recruitment and induction processes and gain new methods to find, recruit and retain high quality staff

Stephen Mitchell, Director, Keystone Knowledge

1B. Absence

Gain new strategies to manage long and short-term sickness and reduce absence costs including how to work with occupational health to ensure results that make a difference

Tom Wallace, Senior HR Consultant, Browne Jacobson

1C. EDI

Understand how employment decisions can be impacted by EDI and ensure your school's vision is inclusive and committed to diversity

Naseem Nabi, Partner, VWV

Lunch, networking and exhibition (12:40 - 13:30)

Legal update: What schools need to know (13:30)

Stay informed to ensure policies, procedures and contracts are robust and fit for the upcoming year

Jean Boyle, Partner, Stone King

How not to make your ex-employee rich (14:00)

Benefit from 7 ½ tips on how to put downwards pressure on a payment to outgoing staff

Peter Woodhouse, Partner, Stone King LLP

Questions (14:20)

Workshop choices (14:30 - 15:20)

2A. When things go wrong

Gain strategies to handle disciplinary processes and ensure constructive outcomes

Nick Murrell, Associate, VWV

2B. Grievances

Respond to grievances and resolve disputes effectively

Ellie Boyd, Solicitor, VWV

2C. Tribunals

Prepare yourself for tribunal with effective systems for case management, evidence-gathering and confidence for cross-examination

Peter Woodhouse, Partner, Stone King

Afternoon refreshments, networking and exhibition (15:20 - 15:40)

Complex allegations (15:40)

Learn how to resolve serious safeguarding or misconduct allegations 75% quicker and save money, reputation and time.

Ian Deakin, Partner, Browne Jacobson

Dai Durbridge, Partner, Browne Jacobson

Questions and answers (16:15)

Conference closes at 16:20