Fair Education Summit 2024: Agenda
9:00–9:20 | Registration
Please be prompt as to not interrupt the performance from the young people of Impact Dance as part of our Opening Plenary
9:20–10:15 | Opening Plenary: It Takes All of Us
Welcome
Live Performance from Impact Dance
Recorded message from special speaker: Sir Lewis Hamilton
Speakers include: Dr Vanessa Ogden CBE, Zulum Elumogo and members of our Youth Steering Group
10:25–11:10 | Driving System Change Together
A brave workshop framing the theme of the 2024 Fair Education Summit with our CEO, Gina Cicerone.
We take a systemic view, looking at change through structural, relationship and value lenses.
11:10–11:25 | Break and Networking
11:25–12:25 | System Change in Action
A panel to explore what the frameworks for system change look like on the ground, including practice, resources, and changing mental models.
Speakers include: Paul Amuzie of Citizens UK, Fozia Irfan of Children in Need, Sean Harris of Tees Valley Education Trust, and Bronwyn Lee of Learning Creates Australia. The conversation will be chaired by Gina Cicerone
12:25–13:30 | Lunch and Networking
13:30–14:10 | Launch of Fair Education 2024: Priorities for the New Government
The Fair Education Alliance, young people, and members launch Fair Education 2024: Priorities for the New Government. Just days after the General Election, there’s never been a better time to gather and discuss how we can drive system change together.
Hear from our members: Mission 44, National Literacy Trust, Summit Learning Trust and The New School
14:10–14:20 | Short Movement break
14:20–15:30 | Skills and Knowledge Sharing Workshops
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A session about the journey of how the Tuition Advocacy Working Group collaborated to influence national policy, including practical examples that you can apply to your own collaborations.
Speakers: Susannah Hardyman of Action Tutoring, Sarah Waite of Get Further, and Ed Marsh of Tutor Trust -
A workshop to explore the opportunities and routes to influencing as an individual or organisation, while providing information and reassurance about campaigning in accordance with charity law.
Speakers: Liz Moorse of Association of Citizenship Teaching, and Simon Steedon of Bates Wells
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Explore practical strategies and skills for sustaining community-based movements, drawing on international and UK-based case studies to foster collective action and build long-term coalitions for place-based change.
Speakers: Graeme Duncan of Right to Succeed and Fiona Spellman of SHINE Trust -
A workshop on the benefits our business members can bring to our collective efforts, the barriers in this, and how our third-sector members can best work with businesses to further our collective priorities.
Speakers: Ben Hemington of IG Group and Kate McGoey of Barclays LifeSkills
15:30–15:45 | Coffee Break & Networking
15:45–16:15 | Nish Kumar and Coco Khan in Conversation with Young People
The hosts of the hit podcast ‘Pod Save the UK’ will hold a conversation with members of our Youth Steering Group, discussing the lived experience of students in the current education system and their hopes for the future.
16:15-17:00 | Closing Plenary: What’s Next?
Fair Education Alliance team members Gina Cicerone and Daniel Rooney revisit our theme of system change and what we can do differently in our work as the product of our learnings throughout the day.
Creative performance from a member of our Youth Steering Group