People Update webinar

21/01/2025
2 - 3pm
Free

LOCATION Virtual Teams Meeting

RECOMMENDED FOR Customers only - Headteachers, CEOs, HR Directors, HR Managers, School Business Managers

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Don't miss out on our latest People Update webinar, where our HR experts will keep you informed of the latest developments in the ever-changing educational and political landscape and help you prepare for the upcoming term.

Join us for our termly one-hour virtual People Update, during which we will be sharing:

🔃a round-up of the latest proposed upcoming changes to employment law following the employment rights bill

💼changes already in place or set to come into effect in 2025

💸the latest position on teacher and support staff pay.

We will also be focusing on key issues for schools and trusts in the spring term, including:

📆 workforce planning using existing data to inform recruitment decisions

❇️ using the nine-box grid to enable you to identify and retain talent

👫how you can proactively build resilience and support effective communication with your staff during periods of change and uncertainty.

 

There will also be the opportunity to ask us your questions in our Q&A session.

Meet your hosts and expert panel

  • Your Host

    Alex Hawkins

    Director of People Services
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    Having worked in the education sector since 1995, Alex provides strategic leadership to our HR advisory, consultancy and contracts administration teams. She manages relationships with some of our largest MAT clients, supporting CEOs and academy leaders with HR solutions including complex staffing issues, TUPE transfers, harmonisation, and complex case management through to employment tribunal preparation. Alex also has significant experience supporting trusts with negotiating changes to terms and conditions.

  • Your Host

    Ailsa Calverley

    Senior People Partner
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    Ailsa is one of our Senior People Partners, and has worked for over ten years in the Human Resources sector. Added to this experience, she is a qualified teacher, with many years’ experience teaching within the primary education sector.

    Working at EPM has been an opportunity to combine her two passions – education and HR – and enables her to apply unique levels of empathy to the situations in which she advises. Ailsa also volunteers as a Local Authority Governor at a local School, and in this role has oversight of safeguarding. She is passionate about ensuring children of all ages and backgrounds have access to a safe environment, a high-quality education and plentiful opportunities to succeed.