Agenda

Key Timings - Conference

Networking Breakfast: 9.00am

Conference Starts: 9.30am

Conference Closes: 5.30pm

Key Timings - Out of School Club Awards

Networking Drinks: 5.30pm

OSCAs Ceremony: 6.30pm

Close: 8pm

Agenda

Keynote Speakers

9.30am - 9.40am

Welcome

Tanya Petherick, Club Central

9.40am - 10.10am

Twenty-first century out of school

James Hempsall OBE, Hempsall’s

Video Address from Minister for Children, Families and Wellbeing

10.10am - 10.25am

David Johnston OBE, MP

10.25am - 10.40am

Building Momentum in the Out of School Sector

Rebekah Jackson Reece, Out of School Alliance

10.40am - 10.55am

Opportunities and Challenges for the Wraparound Sector

Dan Weir, Morton Michel

10.55am - 11.25am

Networking Break

11.25am - 11.55am

The Journey To Hope, Recovery & Beyond

11.55am - 12.05pm

Jonny Benjamin MBE

Ask the Panel Questions

All Keynote Speakers

Track Sessions: Choose one session in each time slot on the day

12.10pm - 12.55pm

  • Becoming an Employer of Choice

    with Imogen Edmunds, Managing Director, Redwing Solutions

  • Unlocking Financial Success: Strategies for Sustainable Business Growth

    with Lucy Lewin, Founder The Profitable Nursery Academy

  • Creating a culture of Safeguarding in our clubs

    with Ann Marie Christian, International Safeguarding Consultant, Child1st Consultancy Limited

  • The importance of things: affordances and loose parts

    with Julia Sexton, Senior Lecturer in Childhood Studies, Sheffield Hallam University /The Playwork Foundation

  • Diversity in the Setting

    with Audrey Bobb, Director / Manager, Jumoke

12.55pm - 1.55pm: Lunch

1.55pm - 2.40pm

  • Who’s quality is it anyway?

    with Rebekah Jackson Reece, CEO, Out of School Alliance

  • The power of playwork in an after school setting

    with Meynell, Director, Meynell Games

  • ‘Be Prepared, Don’t Panic’.

    With James McDonald, Morton Michel

  • DfE National Wraparound Programme

    with Ruth Jesson-Smith

  • Protecting value

    with Jodie Seddon, Level Law

2.45pm - 3.30pm

  • "Unlocking Success: Innovative Strategies for School Age Childcare Providers"

    with Diane Koplewsky, CEO & Nikolai Koplewsky, Operations Director, Sleepy Hollow Group

  • Playing with Playfulness

    with The OOSA Ambassadors

  • Love Care Recruitment

    Why Use Love Care Recruitment

  • Effective supervision in out of school care and why it's so important

    with Emma Gardner, Quality Manager, Spring for Action for Children

  • Inclusive Play - Meeting Individual Play Needs

    with Karen Benjamin, Senior Lecturer, University of Gloucester and Playwork Foundation

3.30pm -4.00pm: Break

4.00 - 4.45pm

  • Business Growth Strategies – different models for expansion

    with Pam Gordon, Franchise Development and Recruitment Consultant, The Franchising Centre

  • Employment Law Update for Out of School Clubs

    with Imogen Edmunds, Managing Director, Redwing Solutions

  • Curiosity, creativity & connection - Relational practice with care experienced children and young people

    with Saira-Jayne Jones & Amanda Knowles MBE

  • Reduce your admin and get paid promptly with Kids Club HQ

    with Martin Judd, Kids Club HQ

  • Ten Steps to a Positive Workplace Mental Health Culture

    with Sam Thomson, Managing Director, Hexagon Hive

4.50pm - 5.25pm: Round Tables

End the day sharing thoughts, ideas, expertise and discussing challenges with our thought-provoking, idea-generating round tables

Choose one round table for the full session

  • Five for the Future” Exploring the Five Key Facets of the Future Focus for OSC with Rebekah Jackson Reece

  • The sale and transfer (TUPE) of Out of School Clubs with Imogen Edmunds

  • Contemplating recent government announcements – what would help? With James Hempsall

  • Playwork Apprenticeships with James Welsh

  • Supporting SEND children in Play Settings with Karen Benjamin

  • Recruitment Hints and Tips with Tom Trout

  • Using AI in Out of School with Diane Koplewsky

  • Marketing Hints and Tips with Martin Judd