People Update webinar

25/09/2025
2 - 3.15pm
Free

LOCATION Virtual Teams Meeting

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

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In a rapidly changing education and political landscape, staying informed on people-focused issues is crucial.

Our subject-matter experts will break down the latest developments affecting your people and share EPM's advancements to help you navigate what's next. 

What we'll cover

Employment Rights Bill: What schools need to do next
Cut through the complexity with a clear summary of the latest amendments and what actions your School or Trust needs to take.

EPM service update
Discover the latest tools, resources, and HR innovations we’re rolling out to support your people priorities this year.

Smart HR strategies
• Managing intermittent sickness absence effectively
• Making confident occupational health referrals that support staff wellbeing.

Pay & conditions updates
• 2025/26 pay updates and practical implications
• Key changes to the School Teachers’ Pay & Conditions Document (STPCD)
• Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) updates based on September's new release.

“Custom and practice” – HR myth‑busting
Understand how informal arrangements can become contractual obligations and how to manage the risks.

Key employment caselaw schools need to know
A rapid, practical review of recent judgements every school HR team should know this term.

 

❓ There will be a Q&A afterwards to allow you to ask questions. 

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

    Lisa Longstaff

    Director of HR Services
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    Lisa has a remarkable background in transforming HR within education, with 13 years of experience supporting multi-academy trusts, particularly with trust boards, utilising data in decision-making and securing better outcomes for those working in education.

    As Director of People at The Education Alliance, Lisa worked alongside the CEO to weave strategic people initiatives into the Trust's overall strategy, impacting on culture - improving recruitment, reducing staff workload, enhancing benefits, and creating flexible career development opportunities that invested in high-quality CPD. 

  • 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.