Education Breakfast Briefing: Managing the top 5 sector reputational risks
May 2 @ 8:30 am - 10:00 am
The wider team at Rollits will be sharing their knowledge and experience to support sector leaders to avoid the pitfalls in areas such as GDPR, Contract Management, Employment Conflict and Land and Lease challenges.
These are common challenges and concerns that sector leaders constantly face which can have huge detrimental impact on an organisations reputation and where legal guidance and support are often needed.
Topics to be discussed include:
- Gender questioning children – The consultation on the draft non statutory guidance in relation to gender questioning children has now closed. What does this mean for schools and colleges and what steps, if any, should you be taking now to minimise the risk of complaints or claims from students and parents?
- Employment – exploring the boundaries between professional and personal conduct. What steps can schools and colleges take to manage personal conduct?
- Governance update – best practice and avoiding common pitfalls
- Data Subject Rights – Practical tips on how to deal with tricky data subject requests such as subject access requests and ‘requests to be forgotten’.
- Contracts – Considering common pitfalls and points to be aware of when entering into commercial contracts, and potential ways of addressing those issues proactively to reduce the chance of disputes arising in the future.
Our target audience is sector leaders, COO, CFO, Trustees and Governors.
Meet the speakers
Caroline specialises in commercial litigation and heads up the Education Team acting for Schools, Multi Academy Trusts, Colleges, Universities and Independent Training Providers, advising upon disputes with Funders, Partner Providers, students and other stakeholders.
A key member of the firm’s Education team, James routinely advises our education sector clients on compliance with funding rules, drafts contracts for education subcontractor arrangements and negotiates contracts for providers where they are contacting with other providers, funders or commercial organisations.
Lucy undertakes work on a variety of employment issues and has advised clients in respect of complex disability discrimination matters, including during employment tribunal proceedings and regularly advises both employers and employees on settlement agreement matters.
Gerry heads the Charities Team and has considerable experience of heading-up projects including academy conversions and bringing new academies into existing multi-academy trusts to ensure a joined-up, proactive and holistic approach.
Sarah has over 20 years of school and Trust leadership experience. Until December 2021 she was Director of Education for a successful Multi Academy Trust in East Yorkshire. As Executive Lead from inception of the Trust through the first five years of development she initiated processes for shared pedagogy, curriculum expectation, CPDL, Headteacher coaching and Leadership Development programmes as well as leading on Strategic Partnerships.
