Teaching Assistant Webinar: Promoting Ownership and Self-Regulation
Termly online sessions for Teaching Assistants, sharing key aspects of high-quality and evidence-informed practice. Individuals or groups of TAs can sign up to any or all sessions and a recording will be available afterwards on the Digital Network.
SEND Regional Event (Peterborough)
In-person events for school, MAT and LA leaders, sharing the excellent practice from within and beyond our network.
Special and AP Senior Leaders Network Meeting (January 2026)
This series of online sessions will contain expert inputs from within and beyond our network, while also providing opportunity for discussion and practice-sharing. The focus of these sessions will be largely built by those within the group. Where possible, you are encouraged to attend all three sessions.
Learning Exchange Visit: Greenwood Academies Trust
This visit to Greenwood Academies Trust provides the opportunity to experience first hand how the culture, ethos and values of a trust impact policy and day to day practice in and across schools. The visits take an appreciative enquiry approach to ensure benefit for both host and visitor.
MAT SEND Leaders Meeting (January 2026)
Bringing together our national network of 90+ MATs to share practice and gain key insights on current leadership challenges around SEND and Inclusion.
Expertise into Practice: How SENCOs can effectively manage primary to secondary transitions with Margaret Mulholland
Our Expertise into Practice webinars combine expert inputs from leading voices on SEND with opportunities for discussion with our national network.
SEND Regional Event (Manchester)
In-person events for school, MAT and LA leaders, sharing the excellent practice from within and beyond our network.
New and Aspiring SENCOs Webinar: Monitoring and Assurance
An online series for those interested in or new to the SENCO role. We encourage you to register in advance and plan to attend all sessions in the series if possible.
New and Aspiring SENCOs Webinar: Statutory and Working with Stakeholders
An online series for those interested in or new to the SENCO role. We encourage you to register in advance and plan to attend all sessions in the series if possible.
Teaching & Learning and SEND Webinar: Driving T&L for pupils with SEND through effective CPD
SEND CPD for non-SENCOs, supporting leaders to develop classroom practice for pupils with SEND. Developing the everyday practice of teachers is perhaps the greatest thing we can prioritise for pupils with SEND. In the most inclusive schools, every leader works towards this aim.
Leadership Conference 2026: From Attending to Thriving
This year’s Schools of Tomorrow and Whole Education Leadership Conference focuses on one of the most pressing challenges facing education: attendance and engagement.
With attendance still below pre pandemic levels, school, trust and local authority leaders are investing significant time and resource with mixed impact. Drawing on the ImpactEd concept of The Engagement Gap, this conference creates space to explore what sits beneath attendance patterns and how we might shape schools as places where everyone wants to be.
Through a carefully curated programme of speakers and conversations, the conference brings together leaders from across the education sector and beyond to think together about collective responses that enable every child to thrive.
Visit the conference webpage to find out more, download the full programme, or click here to book your place.
Leadership Community Launch: What is holistic education and how can we inspire local and national change?
This first session invites you to step into the heart of holistic education and explore what it means to be a champion of change. Together, we will examine how knowledge, skills, and dispositions intersect to equip learners not just for exams, but for life, learning, and work. Through stories, reflection, and shared experiences, you will be encouraged to consider how your personal journey as a leader shapes the education you aspire to provide.
We will explore the principles of a rigorous whole education and discuss how it can be made relevant and engaging for all learners. This is an opportunity to interrogate the challenges your schools face, reflect on what works, and draw inspiration from the wider network. By engaging with research, debate, and practice-sharing, you will see how your voice, alongside others, contributes to a national conversation that shapes education policy, practice, and culture.
By the end of the session, you will leave not only with a deeper understanding of holistic education, but with a clear sense of how to influence change locally and nationally. You will have begun the journey of stepping fully into your role as a representative voice of the Whole Education network, empowered to inspire your colleagues, students, and communities to thrive in a transforming world.
This event is accessible to:
Whole Educator, School and Headteacher members of our network
Participants of our SEND and Early Years programme
You can sign up via Digital Community.
Aspiring MAT SEND Leader Webinar: Embedding Practice
An online series for those interested in or new to the SENCO role. We encourage you to register in advance and plan to attend all sessions in the series if possible.
MAT SEND Leaders Meeting (March 2026)
Bringing together our national network of 90+ MATs to share practice and gain key insights on current leadership challenges around SEND and Inclusion.
Specialist Resource and Enhanced Provision Leaders Network Meeting (March 2026)
A series of webinars for Resource Provision leads, with expert inputs and opportunities to share practice. These sessions will provide support for anyone leading or overseeing a Resource Provision. Whether your provision is formal or informal, is called a Base or Unit, Specialist Class or something else, we welcome you to come and be a part of this network.
Special and AP Senior Leaders Network Meeting (March 2026)
This series of online sessions will contain expert inputs from within and beyond our network, while also providing opportunity for discussion and practice-sharing. The focus of these sessions will be largely built by those within the group. Where possible, you are encouraged to attend all three sessions.
SEND Regional Event (Birmingham)
In-person events for school, MAT and LA leaders, sharing the excellent practice from within and beyond our network.
Learning Exchange Visit: The White Horse Federation
This visit to The White Horse Federation provides the opportunity to experience first hand how the culture, ethos and values of a trust impact policy and day to day practice in and across schools. The visits take an appreciative enquiry approach to ensure benefit for both host and visitor.
SEND Regional Event (London)
In-person events for school, MAT and LA leaders, sharing the excellent practice from within and beyond our network.
Teaching Assistant Webinar: Supporting behaviour
Termly online sessions for Teaching Assistants, sharing key aspects of high-quality and evidence-informed practice. Individuals or groups of TAs can sign up to any or all sessions and a recording will be available afterwards on the Digital Network.
Expertise into Practice: Belonging and inclusion with Camilla Saunders
Our Expertise into Practice webinars combine expert inputs from leading voices on SEND with opportunities for discussion with our national network.
Leadership Community: Skills for Life — The voice of a trainee teacher, advocating for holistic education.
This session brings the energy and insight of emerging voices in education to the forefront. Through the perspective of a trainee teacher, we will explore how advocacy and practice intersect in the classroom, revealing how small, everyday actions can ripple out to influence whole communities. Participants will hear first-hand the experiences, hopes, and challenges of those at the start of their teaching journey and reflect on how leaders can nurture and amplify these voices.
We will consider what it means to champion holistic education with courage, compassion, and rigour. Together, we will explore strategies to build trust, create space for dialogue, and inspire change across different levels of a school. This session will highlight the skills leaders need to empower others to act, demonstrating that leadership is not just about authority, but about listening, connecting, and advocating for what is right for every learner.
By the end of the session, you will leave with a renewed sense of purpose, a deeper understanding of how holistic education can be embedded in practice, and a clear vision of how your leadership can create opportunities for voices to be heard, valued, and acted upon. You will be ready to champion change that ensures every learner thrives, both now and in the future.
This event is accessible to:
Whole Educator, School and Headteacher members of our network
Participants of our SEND and Early Years programme
You can sign up via Digital Community.
Aspiring MAT SEND Leader Webinar: Reflections
An online series for those interested in or new to the SENCO role. We encourage you to register in advance and plan to attend all sessions in the series if possible.
MAT SEND Leaders Meeting (May 2026)
Bringing together our national network of 90+ MATs to share practice and gain key insights on current leadership challenges around SEND and Inclusion.
Specialist Resource and Enhanced Provision Leaders Network Meeting (May 2026)
A series of webinars for Resource Provision leads, with expert inputs and opportunities to share practice. These sessions will provide support for anyone leading or overseeing a Resource Provision. Whether your provision is formal or informal, is called a Base or Unit, Specialist Class or something else, we welcome you to come and be a part of this network.
Expertise into Practice: Ensuring interventions have impact — tracking progress to keep pupils moving forwards with Cassie Young
Our Expertise into Practice webinars combine expert inputs from leading voices on SEND with opportunities for discussion with our national network.
Leadership Community: Planning the way — in our own schools and as a leadership community
This session is about turning reflection, insight, and inspiration into purposeful action. We will focus on the practical steps needed to embed holistic education in your own schools while exploring how a national leadership community can drive collective impact. Through dialogue, practice-sharing, and strategic planning, participants will identify levers for change, explore how to influence colleagues and stakeholders, and consider how to champion holistic education beyond their immediate context.
We will reflect on the themes and insights from the previous sessions and consider how to translate ideas into concrete strategies. This includes thinking about culture, systems, structures, and the personal influence that each leader brings. Participants will engage in collaborative problem-solving and planning, leaving the session equipped to lead confidently, advocate persuasively, and implement change that benefits learners, staff, and communities alike.
By the end of the session, you will have a clear roadmap for action, both within your own school and across the Whole Education network. You will leave with practical tools, strategies, and renewed energy to inspire others. Most importantly, you will carry a strengthened sense of purpose as a leader committed to holistic education and ready to ensure that everyone thrives in a transforming world.
This event is accessible to:
Whole Educator, School and Headteacher members of our network
Participants of our SEND and Early Years programme
You can sign up via Digital Community.
Summer Conference 2026
After a brilliant Summer Conference at the University of Warwick in 2025, bringing together 1,000 leaders from across the UK and beyond, we’re delighted to be returning to University of Warwick on Tuesday 7th and Wednesday 8th July for our Summer Conference 2026.
More details on how to book will be made available soon.
Trust Network Conference 2026
The Trust Network Conference brings together trust leaders from across the system for two days of challenge, reflection and practical thinking.
Across expert-led breakouts, trust practice sharing and structured networking, delegates will explore how to lead learning, inclusion and organisational development in a fast changing context. Sessions span leadership and improvement, curriculum, pedagogy and assessment, belonging, equity and inclusion, SEND, workforce development, early years, literacy, and the effective use of technology and AI.
Designed for CEOs, executive leaders, headteachers and senior teams, the conference offers space to think deeply with peers, learn from leading voices in education, and leave with clear insights to strengthen leadership across trusts.
Free to Whole Education Trust Members, with one and two day ticket options available.
Aspiring MAT SEND Leader Webinar: Planning and Organisation
An online series for those interested in or new to the SENCO role. We encourage you to register in advance and plan to attend all sessions in the series if possible.
Teaching & Learning and SEND Webinar: Effective subject leadership for pupils with SEND
SEND CPD for non-SENCOs, supporting leaders to develop classroom practice for pupils with SEND. Developing the everyday practice of teachers is perhaps the greatest thing we can prioritise for pupils with SEND. In the most inclusive schools, every leader works towards this aim.
New and Aspiring SENCOs Webinar: Provision Mapping
An online series for those interested in or new to the SENCO role. We encourage you to register in advance and plan to attend all sessions in the series if possible.
SEND Regional Event (South West)
In-person events for school, MAT and LA leaders, sharing the excellent practice from within and beyond our network.
Expertise into Practice: What SENCOs and School Leaders need to know about national policy changes with Gary Aubin
Our Expertise into Practice webinars combine expert inputs from leading voices on SEND with opportunities for discussion with our national network.
New and Aspiring SENCOs Webinar: Identification
An online series for those interested in or new to the SENCO role. We encourage you to register in advance and plan to attend all sessions in the series if possible.
Aspiring MAT SEND Leader Webinar: An introduction to establishing strategic direction across a MAT
An online series for those interested in or new to the SENCO role. We encourage you to register in advance and plan to attend all sessions in the series if possible.
MAT SEND Leaders Meeting (November 2025)
Bringing together our national network of 90+ MATs to share practice and gain key insights on current leadership challenges around SEND and Inclusion.
Specialist Resource and Enhanced Provision Leaders Network Meeting (November 2025)
A series of webinars for Resource Provision leads, with expert inputs and opportunities to share practice. These sessions will provide support for anyone leading or overseeing a Resource Provision. Whether your provision is formal or informal, is called a Base or Unit, Specialist Class or something else, we welcome you to come and be a part of this network.
SEND Regional Event (North East)
In-person events for school, MAT and LA leaders, sharing the excellent practice from within and beyond our network.
New and Aspiring SENCOs Webinar: The Role of a SENCo
An online series for those interested in or new to the SENCO role. We encourage you to register in advance and plan to attend all sessions in the series if possible.
Teaching & Learning and SEND Webinar: Leading teaching to drive outcomes for pupils with SEND
SEND CPD for non-SENCOs, supporting leaders to develop classroom practice for pupils with SEND. Developing the everyday practice of teachers is perhaps the greatest thing we can prioritise for pupils with SEND. In the most inclusive schools, every leader works towards this aim.
Expertise into Practice: Boosting attendance and engagement with Emma Shackleton
Our Expertise into Practice webinars combine expert inputs from leading voices on SEND with opportunities for discussion with our national network.
Relationships and Behaviour with Positive Regard: Relational road map
Now we have started to understand trauma informed approaches and relational practice, how do we systematise it or create a framework to fall back on. Join this discussion with the Positive Regard team for ideas about how to make your whole school practice truly relational.
Teaching Assistant Webinar: Scaffolding for success
Termly online sessions for Teaching Assistants, sharing key aspects of high-quality and evidence-informed practice. Individuals or groups of TAs can sign up to any or all sessions and a recording will be available afterwards on the Digital Network.
Special and AP Senior Leaders Network Meeting (October 2025)
This series of online sessions will contain expert inputs from within and beyond our network, while also providing opportunity for discussion and practice-sharing. The focus of these sessions will be largely built by those within the group. Where possible, you are encouraged to attend all three sessions.
Aspiring MAT SEND Leader Webinar: An introduction to the programme and to different models of MAT SEND Leadership
An online series for those interested in or new to the SENCO role. We encourage you to register in advance and plan to attend all sessions in the series if possible.
Expertise into Practice: Empowering SENCOs to train teachers on inclusive lesson design with Emma McCrea
Our Expertise into Practice webinars combine expert inputs from leading voices on SEND with opportunities for discussion with our national network.
Relationships and Behaviour with Positive Regard: Strategic Use of Data
This session will explore the strategic use of data to understand and improve behaviour. How can we use this data effectively and what are the limitations? Can we go one layer below? How can we use data to support an inquiry approach to behaviour?
Learning Exchange Visit: Meridian Trust
This visit to Meridian Trust provides the opportunity to experience first hand how the culture, ethos and values of a trust and impact policy and day to day practice in and across schools. The visits take an appreciative enquiry approach to ensure benefit for both host and visitor.