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The day comprises plenary keynotes from leaders across the political, education and business spectrum, workshops and small ‘surgery sessions’ that provide the opportunity to problem-solve with other trusts and leading educational and government organisations.
9.15 Registration, refreshments & networking
10.00 Chair's welcome: purposeful leadership - effective and ethical boards.
10.10 Ministerial Keynote address with Lord Agnew, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the School System
10.30 Effective and ethical boards: Ed Dorrell of the TES is joined by two trust leaders to discuss the challenges to trust values and efficacy that come at times of growth and change
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Ed Dorrell, Deputy Editor of the Times Education Supplement (Chair)
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Zoe Bucknell, Deputy Group Company Secretary at Lloyds Banking Group, and Chair of Aletheia Anglican Academies Trust
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Russell Gill, Chair of Co-op Academies Trust and Head of Co-operative & Local Engagement for the Co-operative Group
11.00 Roundtable discussions: board efficacy
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11.40 Break, networking
12.10 People and purpose: The talent strategy at the heart of successful organisations and trusts
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Andrew Warren, Regional Schools Commissioner for West Midlands (Chair)
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Gaenor Bagley, Chair, TKAT Multi-Academy Trust and NED, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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Sir David Carter, Executive Director of System Leadership at Ambition Institute
12.40 Morning closing remarks
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12.45 Lunch
13.40 Surgery sessions
Workshop: Essentials of education data for new academy trust non-executive directors
Workshop: The governance of risk in multi-academy trusts
14.30 Surgery sessions
Workshop: Essentials of financial governance for new academy trust non-executive directors
Workshop: Financial planning in a primary-school multi-academy trust
15.10 Break, networking
15.25 Welcome to the Final Session
15.30 Aspirations beyond the classroom: Preparing the next generation for work and entrepreneurship.
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John Edwards, Regional Schools Commissioner for East Midlands & Humber (Chair)
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Sir Rod Aldridge OBE, Founder of the Capita Group and Founder / Chair of the Aldridge Foundationn
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Mo Isap, Trustee and Vice Chair of STAR Academies and Board Director at the Careers and Enterprise Company
16.10 The test of the MAT: improving schools. Our final session of the day brings together three esteemed panellists to discuss the path to school improvement. If improving education is the ‘ultimate test’ of the MAT Board, what does it take to pass? What should be the board’s priorities and what is simply a distraction? Is there room for innovation and change? Is there a risk MATs pass the test and miss the target of improving lives and preparing young people for their future?
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Dame Kate Dethridge DBE, Interim Regional Schools Commissioner for North West London and South Central (Chair)
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Jeremy Cooper, Managing Director of RM Education
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Unity Howard, Director of New Schools Network
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Amanda Spielman, Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector at Ofsted
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16.55 Closing remarks
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The programme may change slightly in the run-up to the event