MAT Leaders Conference 2021
- Birmingham
- 11 May 2021
£49.99 + VAT
Agenda
- Registration and refreshments
- Chair’s welcome and opening remarks
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Policy and regulatory update
- The impact of Covid-19
- Your legal responsibilities
- Recent policy announcements and priorities
- Ofsted’s recommendations for MAT inspections
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Trust level activities: getting the most out of your MAT structure
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Stephen MoralesChief Executive, Institute of School Business Leadership (ISBL)
- Best practice economies of scale
- Central support and challenge
- Standardising back-office functions
- Sharing data and expertise
- Refreshments and networking
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Improving and maintaining good financial health
- Centralising the finance function
- The use of Integrated Curriculum Financial Planning (ICFP)
- Techniques for boosting your income
- Accountability at school and MAT level
- Case Study: characteristics of successful MATs
- Lunch, exhibitions and networking
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Roundtable discussions led by industry experts (choice of one of the following)
- Implementing quality finance management systems
- Infrastructure and growth
- Best practice collective procurement
- Data management: the essentials
- Managing acquisitions
- Changing the narrative of MATs
- The Governing Board: identifying current and future business needs
- Strategy For Staff Retention in MATs – Led by Endurio
- Changeover
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Curriculum development: delivering the best possible outcomes for pupils
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Matt BromleyEducation Advisor, Bromley Education
- Agreeing a Trust-wide curriculum vision to ensure quality and consistency
- Promoting school and subject autonomy
- Delivering a broad, balanced and ambitious curriculum for all
- Using the curriculum as an assessment system
- Refreshments and networking
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Growth and development: priorities and building capacity
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Andrew BlenchEducation Consultant
- Managing growth: benefits of larger MAT V capacity for support
- Tracking improvement in individual schools
- Putting in place mechanisms to monitor performance at trust level
- Productive internal and external collaboration
- Effective communication with parents and the wider community
- Close of conference
Speakers
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Andrew Blench
Education Consultant
Andrew Blench is the former School Business Manager for Dinnington High School in Rotherham. He has been an SBM since 2003 and in 2016 set up his consultancy company – School Business Partner. Andrew is currently a School Resource Management Advisor (SRMA) for the DfE, a Facilitator/Assessor/Coach for the L4 SBM Diploma with SBM Partnership and a Leadership and Management Coach. He has extensive experience in advising academies and LA Maintained Schools in the area of effective resource management, leadership and management and governance.
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Brendan Roodt
Director
Since 2010 Brendan has undertaken virtually every type of legal matter that can affect Academies. He has created, transferred, closed down, grown and restructured MAT’s, PRU’s, SEN Academies, and Single Academy Trusts and resolved complex funding and strategy issues working with Academies and the DfE, EFA and LAs.
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Matt Bromley
Education Advisor, Bromley Education
Matt Bromley is an education writer and advisor with over twenty years’ experience in teaching and leadership including as a secondary school headteacher and principal, FE college vice principal, and MAT director. He also works as a public speaker, trainer, and school improvement lead, and is a primary school governor.
Matt writes for various newspapers and magazines, sits on SecEd’s editorial board and co-hosts their podcast. He is the author of numerous best-selling books for teachers and his education blog has been voted one of the UK’s most influential.
He regularly speaks at national and international conferences and events, and provides education advice to charities, government agencies, training providers, colleges and multi-academy trusts. He works as a consultant and trainer with several companies and also provides a wide selection of direct-to-market consultancy and training services through his own company, Bromley Education, which he founded in 2012.
Matt has worked at senior levels in the public and private sectors and, prior to teaching, was a senior manager in the telecoms industry. He began his working life in newspaper journalism. He has an Honours degree in English Language and Literature, a Post-Graduate Certificate in Education and the National Professional Qualification for Headship, as well as several professional qualifications.
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Stephen Morales
Chief Executive, Institute of School Business Leadership (ISBL)
Stephen has a 20-year career history in operations and finance, working at a senior level in the public and private sectors, both in the UK and abroad.
Stephen presided over the development and implementation of nationally recognised school business leadership professional standards and led the transition from the National Association of School Business Management to the Institute of School Business Leadership.
Stephen works closely with the Department for Education in areas of policy reform, and his commitment to research to aid our self-improving system includes ongoing engagement with international jurisdictions including Australia, Europe, the Middle East and the US.
Venue
Macdonald Burlington Hotel
Burlington Arcade, 126 New St, Birmingham B2 4JQ
Our Sponsors
Established in 2005, ABC Teachers are a leading teaching agency offering a fresh approach to education recruitment. We work with teachers, teaching assistants and cover supervisors, recruiting for both supply and permanent positions in schools and learning provisions across the Midlands.
AdEPT Education deliver a trusted range of ICT services for UK schools, including IT support, telephony, networking, connectivity, cyber security, parental engagement and audio visual solutions. To find out how we can help save cost and make efficiencies across your MAT please visit our stand.
CPOMS is the market leading software application trusted by over 11,600 settings for the monitoring, safeguarding and a whole range of pastoral and welfare issues. Working alongside your existing safeguarding processes CPOMS is an intuitive system which ensures that all children, young people and adults are safe and fully supported.
CPOMS Staff Safe allows the uploading, record keeping and governance of information relating to all adults working within a setting. From managing your SCR to creating a chronology of information for individuals, CPOMS Staff Safe is easy to use, easy to access and easy to manage.
Education Mutual – by schools for schools. Staff absence cover is changing, together we can do better. Education Mutual is a non-profit making alternative to staff absence insurance that operates solely for the benefit of members rather than shareholders.
Edurio is England's leading stakeholder feedback platform for schools and Multi Academy Trusts. Edurio works with over 1000 schools in the UK and internationally, supporting school leaders in school improvement planning, staff wellbeing and compliance. Edurio supports MATs and schools with staff, parent, pupil and governor survey instruments co-designed with the UCL Institute of Education and practitioners.
“At Every we believe in making school operational management easy. We provide easy to use software that supports organisations in managing their varied operational compliance requirements. All our solutions are supported with professional services from implementation packages to asset collection and a broad range of training options.”
InVentry is the most trusted sign in and visitor management system available, designed with and for education. Our fully-equipped MIS integrated solution allows you to accurately monitor who is in your school at any one time. It includes: Easy to use touch screen interface; Visitor sign in and photo ID badge printing; DBS check integration; Late pupil sign in with printed passes for class; Mobile registration for before and after school; Seamless integration with the most popular MIS’s. InVentry speeds up the sign in process, keeps identity information secure, and leaves you feeling confident that your students are safe.
Jigsaw – the mindful approach to PSHE
Jigsaw PSHE is a family of PSHE Schemes of Work for ages 3-11 and 11-16, Parenting Programme and Resilience- building Programme.
Offering Training and ongoing mentor support.
Ensuring schools are compliant with DfE statutory guidance on Relationships, Sex and Health Education.
Jigsaw PSHE is a Whole-school approach with comprehensive lesson-a-week planning with all the resources needed to deliver high quality PSHE (including RSHE) in a spiral curriculum for ages 3 to 16.
Offering free updates and an ongoing free support package meaning schools never need to buy another PSHE Scheme.
We aim to improve children’s and young people’s emotional and mental health, underpinning all our programmes with mindfulness philosophy and practice in order to help them learn, be happy, healthy and make the most of their lives.
For further details contact us on office@janlevergroup.com
+44 (0)1202 377192
To request free sample materials go to the website
www.jigsawpshe.com
MAC has extensive experience of working with schools and academies providing property and construction consultancy advice. We have particular expertise in the Condition Improvement Fund with a 70% success rate, securing over £45m of funds in the last three rounds. We support estates due diligence during academy conversion though building condition surveys. Additionally, we work with MATs on the strategic distribution of School Condition Allocation across their estate and the ongoing management of these funds. We deliver complex projects in challenging environments within budget and time constraints while minimising risk. We also provide health and safety and compliance audit services and fire risk assessments through a dedicated department.
At Passageways, we inspire and enable teams to perform better, together. We do that by delivering a remarkable, collaborative experience by leveraging technology, talent and insightful analytics. OnBoard, the next-generation board portal from the Passageways technology suite, is a meeting solution that can be used on any device, anywhere, that makes preparing and running board meetings easy. OnBoard leverages next generation technologies to drive user engagement and generate efficiencies and cost savings for your organisation.
OnBoard: A board portal for a cloud world!
With 15 years of experience working in the education sector, OuttaReach specialise in Visual Marketing services for schools and colleges. With creativity, great design, product development and production, we lead the way in school marketing services.
OuttaReach specialise in taking your vision and bringing it into reality, transforming your environment while strengthening your brand and promoting your values
We’ve been installing outdoor play equipment for schools and council fields since 2008. We now specialise in children’s fitness equipment as well as various ranges of climbing items, with equipment to meet all budgets and requirements. Also surfacing and artificial grass. Contact us on 0116 271 1345 to arrange a meeting with an Area Manager, who will provide a free no-obligation quote.
QDP provide an independently managed, confidential platform to ensure ALL your stakeholders are given a voice.
• Tailored/bespoke questionnaires
• Centralised MAT or individual School control
• Facilitate using our DIY web-based software or in-house survey team
• Comprehensive reporting including; Internal/External/MAT Benchmarking, framework reporting, Distance Travelled…
“…ability to track improvements is instrumental in shaping school improvement priorities."
“…ability to compare data against other institutions is fantastic…I highly recommend QDP.”
“…confident no provider can match [QDP’s] price or products."
Let us help YOU make a real difference!
Ridge Crest is a specialist cleaning services contractor operating almost exclusively within the education market. Unlike many of our competitors, we only do cleaning and we specialise in schools. We offer extensive experience in transforming underperforming cleaning contracts and in transferring from self-delivered services. 
Here at RS Assessment from Hodder Education we offer choice across primary and secondary schools, whether you are seeking auto-marked online tests, National Test-style standardised papers, KS3 assessments, or tools designed to help you understand special educational needs and wellbeing. Having a consistent and trusted approach to assessment across your MAT enables you to compare the performance of different schools and identify any weaknesses and gaps in teaching and learning. It also allows valid and reliable comparisons against national averages. We have a team of expert Assessment Consultants to help you make the right choice for your MAT.
SAAF Education is an independent organisation delivering financial management and business support services to schools, academies and multi academy trusts throughout the UK. Our expert consultants provide strategic and operational support, streamlining financial management processes.
Our in-depth knowledge of the education sector, gained by helping schools and academies thrive under increasing financial pressures, allows us to identify the challenges you face and deliver the strategic consultancy and operational support to overcome them
Services include:
• Finance Support and Training
• Finance Helpdesk
• Payroll Bureau
• Internal Audit
• Asset Management
• Supply and Recruitment
We can tailor any level of support package to meet your needs or visit www.saafeducation.org for more details.
Award-winning provider of fully customised educational products specialising in student planners, teacher planners, exercise books and yearbooks for primary, secondary and SEN schools in the UK and internationally. Our bespoke printed resources are designed in-house to reflect each schools' unique branding and working practices.
SchoolHire is the market-leading school lettings booking platform, used to manage lettings at around 600 schools nationally. It allows schools to manage lettings in-house in a more effective way, by giving schools their own lettings website displaying live availability, empowering customers to make their own booking requests. We are proven to increase revenue alongside numerous efficiency savings.
SAS are proud to be considered the market leader for Staff Absence Insurance, working with over 4,000 schools, offering them the most flexible and unique policy available.
Having worked exclusively in the Education Sector for over 20 years, we know that Schools and Academies have different requirements when it comes to managing staff absence. Our tailored policy can meet the individual requirements of Primary, Secondary & Special Schools; Self-funding Schools;
- Academies & Multi-Academy Trusts.
- Cover for all pre-existing conditions
- Multi-Year Policies
- Maternity-Focused Cover
- Bespoke Multi-Academy Trust Policies
At Schools’ Buying Club our mission is to help schools and MATs save as much money as possible when procuring vital services. We are dedicated procurement specialists working across the country providing both bespoke end-to-end solutions and remote support through our new online tendering facility. It’s compliant and highly effective; leaving more money to spend on classroom resources.
Telephone Europe Ltd from the start has strived to succeed within the telecommunications sector with the ethos of putting our clients first. We are a rapidly expanding telecom solutions company providing expertise and services to over 1000 schools across the United Kingdom. A true one-stop shop for all telecoms including Business Telephone Systems, Calls & Line Rental Charges, Business Broadband, Hosted & Cloud Telephony, School Lockdown Solutions, Disaster Recovery, Multi-Site Solutions and Firewall Web Filtering. We offer a friendly approachable telecoms review to all potential clients with no obligations. Speak to an advisor for more information.
