Suffolk Safeguarding Partnership Education Subgroup
July 2, 2025
Update to CEON members on the establishment of the Education Subgroup as part of the Suffolk Safeguarding Partnership.
The Anglian Strategic Leadership Exchange
Welcoming all CEO networks, and leaders with strategic responsibilities
Quite likely! There are many hybrid senior or strategic roles these days, as trusts and multi-organisational structures have evolved.
What we’re aiming for is the right blend of engagement and impact from the people who can make a difference.
You might be an Executive Director, Headteacher, CEO, Deputy CEO, theme specific or community leader. The key is engagement – offering your strategic, evidence based practical knowledge and experience for the best possible development of strategic issues and challenges.
If there’s a free lunch in the offing, we ask that organisations enable one person per organisation – purely for space, financial and logistical reasons, but more are welcome to attend the main body of the meetings.
For questions, ideas or offers of spotlight ‘lightning’ talks – please contact Rob Walden, Lynzey Holzer and Ness Bally (ideally, copy all into your email please).
Lynsey Holzer (CEO, ALT – Active Learning Trust)
Rob Walden [email protected] (Executive Partnerships and Digital Skills, Eastern Education Group)
Ness Bally, Projects and Bidding Lead Facilitator, Curriculum Initiatives [email protected]
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Inclusion Theme Continues on 25 March 2026
A solution-focused sharing, analysis and discussion around ‘what works’ for CEOs and multi-school strategic leaders.
What happened previously in July 2025?
Strategies for culturally addressing disadvantage in multi-school contexts
We are delighted to welcome Marc Rowland to deliver our keynote. Marc is a nationally renowned and sought after leader and author in the field, with a strong reputation for cutting through complexity to drive actionable cultural change across multi-organisation entities.
Marc Rowland
Adviser for Improving Outcomes for Disadvantaged Learners, Unity Schools Partnership
Marc Rowland
Adviser for Improving Outcomes for Disadvantaged Learners, Unity Schools Partnership
This keynote and Q&A supports multi-school leaders who are ready to move beyond compliance and towards transformational leadership—where inclusion is not a bolt-on, but the beating heart of culture and trust strategy.
- Foster cross-trust collaboration to promote inclusion and high expectations.
- Implement evidence-based strategies to tackle educational disadvantage.
- Align accountability, governance, and development with vulnerable learners’ needs.
- Cultivate collective responsibility and adaptive, relational leadership.
- Use impact evaluation and implementation science for lasting improvement.
Marc’s latest book: The A to Z of Addressing Disadvantage
PLUS...PREVIOUSLY (July 2025)
An Inclusion Mindset
Leading cultural alignment across the trust
Melanie Barrow
CEO, All Saints Schools Trust
Melanie Barrow
CEO, All Saints Schools Trust
Embedding consistently deep inclusive thinking across a diverse group of schools
We are delighted to invite Melanie to share insights from her experience leading schools across diverse, varied demographics, examining the challenges, successes and lessons learned in aligning all adults and children to ‘think as one’ in terms of inclusive leadership, teaching and support. Examples of focus areas:
- Policy and adaptability
- Strengthening resolve in difficult times
- Challenging representation and diversity
- Upskilling and increasing SEND and inclusion specific knowledge
- Building cultural bridges between schools while empowering decision making autonomy
Innovative Alternative Provision
Our journey as a multi-LA, multi-phase trust
Craig Dcunha
Associate Executive Leader, Active Learning Trust
Craig Dcunha
Associate Executive Leader, Active Learning Trust
Experiences and Lessons Learned from collaborating cross-trust, multi-phase and dual Local Authority.
Craig Dcunha will delve into the ups and downs of the Active Learning Trust’s experiences in developing a high quality approach to AP and SEND.
The ALT, like many other trusts spans more than one county and therefore more than one Local Authority, and more than one culture.
This short sharing session will highlight their collaborative efforts, and the impactful strategies implemented – as well as some of the huge challenges faced and approaches to overcoming.
The aim is to provide a ‘tin-opener’ to discussion and further strategic, as well as the ‘nuts and bolts’ needed for trusts to suport each other – and provide agile SEND and AP support.
RISE programme
Jonathan Taylor
CEO, Sapientia Education Trust (SET)
Jonathan Taylor
CEO, Sapientia Education Trust (SET)
The RISE programme in the inclusion context: How to get the best from the new DfE programme
Initiated by the Department for Education, the RISE programme aims to improve schools with consistently poor Ofsted inspections. It involves RISE advisers, who are educational experts in school improvement. Sapientia Education Trust, through its chief executive Jonathan Taylor, supports “stuck” schools in Norfolk and the Eastern region. The programme provides targeted interventions to eligible schools and offers a universal service to share best practices and encourage peer-to-peer support. Its goal is to improve educational standards and outcomes, breaking the link between young people’s backgrounds and their future success.
Ofsted Update
An update from Ofsted’s External Advisor for Inclusion
Mark Vickers
Ofsted's external adviser for inclusion, and CEO, Olive Academies
Mark Vickers
Ofsted's external adviser for inclusion, and CEO, Olive Academies
Ofsted – update
As Ofsted’s External Advisor for Inclusion, Mark is in a position to update us on the latest information on behalf
In this short session, Mark will support CEOs and multi-school leaders by providing some key information.
PLUS...PREVIOUSLY (July 2025)
Behaviour & Attendance Inclusion Partnerships
Sharing what works and lessons learned from Cambridgeshire's BAIP partnerships programme
Andy Daly
Executive Headteacher, Meridian Trust
Andy Daly
Executive Headteacher, Meridian Trust
Christopher Bennett
Execuive Headteacher, Meridian Trust
Christopher Bennett
Execuive Headteacher, Meridian Trust
The BAIP Programme so far: can the Behaviour Attendance Improvement Partnerships innovate to strengthen Alternative Provision?
Join leaders from Cambridgeshire and Peterborough as they explore their journey with the BAIP programme so far, its origins, guiding principles, key successes, and the challenges shaping its future. This engaging session offers valuable insights into how BAIP has evolved, the impact it has had on the region, and the strategies being considered to address today’s pressing issues. Whether you’re a policymaker, stakeholder, or simply interested in regional development, this conversation promises to deliver thought-provoking perspectives and actionable takeaways
PREVIOUSLY - July 2025
Latest updates from the Department for Education
Sharing what works and lessons learned from Cambridgeshire's BAIP partnerships programme
Latest updates from the DfE
Jonathan Fairclough
Latest updates from the DfE
Jonathan Fairclough
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Leading for Impact Conference – Wymondham College, 15 July, 2025
June 13, 2025
On Tuesday 15th July, educational leaders from across the East of England gathered at Wymondham College for the Leading for Impact – Secondary Conference. Hosted by Sapientia Education Trust, the event brought together voices from
Inspections and evaluations
November 11, 2024
Details of inspections and other formal reports on our work Click to read the full article https://www.suffolklocaloffer.org.uk/news-and-developments/improving-send-in-suffolk/inspections-and-evaluations
Teaching School and Curriculum Hubs
November 11, 2024
Links to DfE funded Teaching School Hubs and Curriculum Hubs
EEF Project Recruitment
November 11, 2024
The EEF is recruiting for a number of programmes across primary, secondary, early years and post-16 settings.
Computing & Digital: Trust-wide evaluation & strategy planning
July 2, 2025
Trust-wide evaluation & strategy plan across the 7 Dimensions of the DfE / NCCE Computing Quality Framework (CQF)
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