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Programme Outline

 

08.00am – 09.15am Delegate Registration & opportunity to visit the exhibitors
Tea/Coffee
09.15am – 09.20am Introduction & Housekeeping
Jon Collis, Operations Director, National Training Resources
09.20am – 09.35am Conference Chair (Welcome, Scene Setting & Opening Remarks)
Anne Hayward, Director of Anne Hayward Consortium and Specialist SEN Ofsted Consultant
09.35am – 10.00am 'Post 16 proposals of the SEN Green Paper: Next Steps document'
Jonathan Duff, Head of Unit, Post-16 Learners with Learning Difficulties and/or Disabilities, Department for Education (DfE)
10.00am – 10.20am 'Education and Training Funding for young people with learning difficulties and/or disabilities'
Julie Lynes-Grainger, Head of Learners with Learning Difficulties and/or Disabilities, Education Funding Agency (EFA)
10.20am – 10.40am 'LSIS and Learners with Learning Difficulties and/or Disabilities and the staff who support them: An update'
Viv Berkeley, Programme Development Manager, Learner and Learning Support, The Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS)
10.40am – 11.00am Sum up by Conference Chair & Q&A Panel Discussion
11.00am – 11.30am Refreshment Break & opportunity to visit the exhibitors
11.30am – 12.30pm Facilitated Workshops - Session One
12.30pm – 13.30pm Lunch, Networking & opportunity to visit the exhibitors
13.30pm – 13.50pm 'Developing a Transition Model'
Teresa Kelly, Principal, Abingdon & Witney College
13.50pm – 14.20pm 'People and possibilities - Case Study'
Rebecca Stanley, Micro Services Co-ordinator, Community Catalysts CIC & Jill Carter, Pulp Friction Smoothie Bar CIC (Micro enterprise)
14.20pm – 14.40pm 'From SEN to Masters - Case Study'
Ceri Edwards
& Jackie Edwards, Family Carer
14.40pm – 15.00pm Sum up by Conference Chair & Q&A Panel Discussion
15.00pm – 16.00pm Facilitated Workshops - Session Two (Session One Repeated)
16.00pm
Closing Surgery Session – Meet the Chair, Speakers, Facilitators and network with the experts.
The closing session will be located in the main conference room and conducted as an informal "open door" session. The aim is to provide an opportunity for delegates to ask individual questions, exchange knowledge and views with the Chair, Speakers, Workshop Leaders and other delegates.


In the event that any speaker becomes unavailable the programme schedule may be subject to change