DateThu18 Mar2010
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Managing Exclusions - London

Programme

09:00 – 09:45
Registration and refreshments
09:45 – 10:00
Chair’s introduction & welcome
Graham Robb, Education Consultant & Board Member, Youth Justice Board
10:00 – 10:40
Keynote 1
Understanding your legal duties for making the decision to exclude and removing pupils from the school site
Dai Durbridge, Solicitor, Browne Jacobson LLP
10:40 – 11:20
Keynote 2
The Independent Appeals panel: what are its powers and how are decisions made?
 
Sheila Sturgeon, Appeals Clerk, Oxfordshire County Council
11:20 – 11:50
Morning refreshments
11:50 – 12:40
Streamed sessions 1
1A
1B
1D
Making the Decision to exclude: gathering, analysing and presenting evidence
Richard Bird, Legal Consultant, ASCL
Early intervention: strategies to identify and support students at risk of exclusion
Tina Rae, Senior Educational Psychologist, London Borough of Hillingdon
Sending a pupil home without exclusion: Authorised absence, removal from school, or illegal exclusion?
Ingrid Sutherland, Legal Consultant, Advisory Centre for Education and Core Education
12:40 – 13:40
Lunch
13:40 – 14:20
Keynote 3
Managing the Exclusion of Special Educational Needs and disabled students: what is reasonable and lawful?
Mark Blois, Head of Education Law & Partner, Browne Jacobson LLP
14:20 – 15:10
Streamed sessions 2
2A
2B
2D
Sixth day provision:
Effectively working in partnership to meet your duty to provide ‘suitable full-time education’
David Thompson, Assistant Principal, Trent Valley Academy
 
Handling parental concerns and complaints throughout the exclusions process
Richard Bird, Legal Consultant, ASCL
Legal responsibilities towards managing the Exclusion of Looked After Children
Ingrid Sutherland, Legal Consultant, Advisory Centre for Education and Core Education
15:10 – 15:30
Afternoon refreshments
15:30 – 16:20
Streamed sessions 3
3A
3B
3C
Successfully reintegrating students following exclusion and ensuring lessons are learnt
Peter Smart, Deputy Head, The Castle School
Legal obligations in relation to standard of proof, record keeping and providing evidence
Dai Durbridge, Solicitor, Browne Jacobson LLP
Therapeutic strategies for preventing fixed term exclusions and creating effective alternatives to permanent exclusions
Jan Sargeant, Team Manager & Liz Smith, Assistant Manager, Behaviour Support Team,
London Borough of Hillingdon
16:20
Conference close