Tes SEND Show 2025 | Exhibitor Workshop Theatre

09 Oct 2026 SEND Leadership Summit 08:45 - 08:50

Breakfast Welcome: ASCL SEND & Inclusion Policy Specialist

Speakers

Margaret Mulholland, ASCL SEND Policy Specialist & TES Columnist - Association of School & College Leaders

09 Oct 2026 SEND Leadership Summit 16:00 - 16:20

Designing a SEND system as ambitious as the children it serves

Joe Lane will set out what a transformed SEND system should look like when built around children's aspirations and the realities of frontline delivery. He will explain how new accountability structure ...

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Joe Lane, Executive Director - Children's Commissioner

Discussion Panel: Reform into Reality: Leading Inclusion with Confidence

Taking forward issues from the day with our discussion panel

Chairperson

Jon Severs, Editor - TES

Speakers

Emma Balchin, Chief Executive - National Governance Association (NGA)

09 Oct 2026 SEND Leadership Summit 11:45 - 12:10

From Me to We: Building a Collectivist Culture Around SEND and Adaptive Teaching

Labels are necessary but not sufficient. Diversity meets unity when we focus less on individual labels and more on collective barriers to learning. This session will explore 2 out of 4 ingredients for ...

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Andy Young, Co-Director - Pathfinder Education Partnership

09 Oct 2026 SEND Leadership Summit 10:50 - 11:15

From trait to state: reconceptualising vulnerability

This presentation will share insights from a participatory research project, funded by Ofsted, that explored how vulnerability is understood, and how it can be most usefully conceptualised by educatio ...

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Dez Holmes, Strategic Director Practice & Programmes, National Children’s Bureau and Director, - Research in Practice

09 Oct 2026 SEND Leadership Summit 15:40 - 16:00

Inclusion bases: Deliberate design for ‘flow’ and accessibility to universal provision

This session will explore how two secondary settings have used deliberate design principles for curriculum and teaching and learning to ensure that pupils’ access to their inclusion bases build greate ...

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Samantha Warwick, Director of SEND - Formby High School, Sefton / Greenshaw Learning Trust

Amelie Thompson, Assistant Director of Education - SEND and Specialist Provision - Formby High School, Greenshaw Learning Trust

Aurora Reid, School Improvement Lead - Sir John Hunt Secondary School, Plymouth / Greenshaw Learning Trust

09 Oct 2026 SEND Leadership Summit 15:20 - 15:40

Lingfield Education Trust: Moving from inclusive principles to codified practice

Lingfield Education Trust was set up to be ‘inclusive’ – but what exactly does this mean for daily practice at the chalk face? This session looks at how Trust-wide inclusive principles can be used to ...

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Mark Dent, Director of Education & Regional Hub Director - Lingfield Education Trust

09 Oct 2026 SEND Leadership Summit 12:45 - 14:00

Lunch, Exhibition and Networking

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09 Oct 2026 SEND Leadership Summit 14:00 - 14:15

Powering progress from individual start points

Speakers

Margaret Mulholland, ASCL SEND Policy Specialist & TES Columnist - Association of School & College Leaders

09 Oct 2026 SEND Leadership Summit 11:35 - 11:45

Refreshment Break & Networking

09 Oct 2026 SEND Leadership Summit 15:10 - 15:20

Refreshment Break & Networking

09 Oct 2026 SEND Leadership Summit 10:45 - 10:50

SEND Leadership Summit 2026 In Partnership with ASCL

Chairperson

Margaret Mulholland, ASCL SEND Policy Specialist & TES Columnist - Association of School & College Leaders

09 Oct 2026 SEND Leadership Summit 14:15 - 14:50

Student perceptions of barriers to their learning. An authentic workshop based on a pilot programme

Effective inclusion goes beyond SEND; it is contextual, personal and dependent on collective action to drive meaningful improvement. This session explores what is often overlooked in inclusive practic ...

Speakers

Graham Moore, CEO - Humanutopia

09 Oct 2026 SEND Leadership Summit 16:20 - 16:30

Summary

Speakers

Margaret Mulholland, ASCL SEND Policy Specialist & TES Columnist - Association of School & College Leaders

09 Oct 2026 SEND Leadership Summit 09:30 - 10:30

Tes SEND Show Keynote and Panel Discussion

09 Oct 2026 SEND Leadership Summit 14:50 - 15:10

The Work Between Us: Making Local Partnerships Work for Inclusion

The Work Between Us: Making Local Partnerships Work For Inclusion. Effective inclusion depends on the partnerships we build. Claire Thomson explores innovative collaboration from the local authority p ...

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