Name: Battling perverse incentives: How do we change policy to make schools more inclusive? (Panel Discussion)
Start: 2025-01-11T14:20:00+0000
End: 2025-01-11T15:00:00+0000

IncludEd 2025 promises high quality professional development aimed at building inclusive schools and improving outcomes for ALL students.

If you’re looking for a blend of research, practical expertise, and lived experience, while networking with a like-minded community of practitioners, you’ve come to the right place.

You can see details of this year’s IncludEd 2025 sessions and speakers below.

For more information about IncludEd, or if you don’t yet have a ticket, you can buy one HERE
Find out more about The Difference HERE

We look forward to seeing you on January 11th!

Saturday January 11, 2025 2:20pm - 3:00pm GMT

Logan Hall

How can we reshape policies that inadvertently discourage inclusion in schools?

This panel discussion brings together education leaders and changemakers, including Kiran Gill (CEO & Founder of The Difference), Patrick Cozier (Headteacher, Highgate Wood), Tom Rees (CEO, Ormiston Academy Trust), and Jonny Uttley (CEO, TEAL Trust). Together, they will explore how policy frameworks impact school behaviour, from accountability measures to funding structures, and discuss practical ways to remove perverse incentives.

Speakers

Patrick Cozier

Headteacher, Highgate Wood School

Patrick Cozier is a successful and experienced secondary school leader. He has been a Headteacher of a large comprehensive school (over 1500 students) for the last 17 years. He has also been the chair of the Haringey Secondary Heads Forum for the last 9 years. In the last five years... Read More →

Kiran Gill

CEO, The Difference

Kiran began her career in inner-city London, as an English teacher in schools serving the most deprived postcodes in the country. After five years on the frontline, Kiran left to work in education policy, searching for solutions to the rising number of children who fall through the... Read More →

Jonny Uttley

CEO, The Education Alliance Multi-Academy Trust (TEAL)

Jonny Uttley is the CEO of The Education Alliance Multi-Academy Trust (TEAL). He has been in post since April 2018, having previously been head teacher at South Hunsley School. TEAL is a trust of twelve schools, in East Yorkshire, Hull and York, serving over 7,000 students, and a... Read More →

Tom Rees

CEO, Ormniston Academies Trust

Tom is chief executive of Ormiston Academies Trust, one of England’s most established school trusts which serves over 35,000 children in 44 schools across the country, including special, alternative provision, primary and secondary. He has 25 years of experience working in education... Read More →

Saturday January 11, 2025 2:20pm - 3:00pm GMT
Logan Hall Institute of Education, UCL, 20 Bedford Way, WC1H 0AL

Round Three Session

IncludEd 2025

Patrick Cozier

Kiran Gill

Jonny Uttley

Tom Rees

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