Employment Law for Heads and Senior Leaders Wednesday - 8 October 2025 (Broadway House, London)

This lively and highly interactive course is for: Heads of HMC and other independent schools, and members of school Senior Leadership Teams.

Description

What will you gain by attending?

  • A thorough, comprehensive grounding in the essentials of employment law – tailored for school managers
  • The reinforcement - and substantial extension - of your existing knowledge
  • Greater confidence in handling staffing issues
  • The capacity to address developing problems before they ‘go critical’
  • A keen awareness of when you need to take further advice

 

The seminar will focus on real-life, highly practical, case studies - supported by detailed answers - and with comprehensive handouts on the issues discussed.

 

Course Programme

Time

Session

09:30

Arrival, registration, and coffee

10.00

Welcome and introduction

10.05

Session 1:

  • An ‘ice-breaker’ quiz on employment law ‘Bare Necessities’
  • Qualifying for employment rights
  • How unfair dismissal works in practice
  • The right to representation at meetings/hearings

11.15

Refreshment break in lounge

11.30

Session 2:

  • Equalities rights: Who is now protected (and who isn’t!)?
  • The pitfalls of interviews
  • Handling requests for flexible working
  • The rights of fixed-term/temporary staff

12.40

Lunch in restaurant

 

13.30

Session 3:

  • Rights to time off
  • Changing staff contracts
  • Addressing persistent ill-health
  • The current rules on industrial action

14.30

Refreshment break in lounge

14.45

Session 4:

  • Employment v self-employment
  • Settling disputes
  • The (last) Government’s employment law initiatives
  • ‘Coming Soon’: The new Labour Government radical Employment Rights Bill

15.55

Questions and closing remarks  

16.00

Depart

 

Speaker Biography

Philip Lott is a specialist and practitioner in Employment Law. Having spent many years as the ‘in-house’ Senior Solicitor with a major education union, Philip now designs and presents lively, incisive - and essentially practical - courses and training events for managers and HR staff, primarily in the Education world. 

Participants find his interactive and energetic approach both enjoyable and effective. His clients include: the Universities and Colleges Employers’ Association (UCEA), the Universities Human Resources Association (the UHR), many ‘old’ and ‘new’ Universities, the Girls’ School Association, the Head Masters’ Conference, Cancer Research UK - and Lloyd’s of London.

Delegate Feedback 

"One of the best courses I've ever been on - Philip Lott was fantastic!"
"Concise practical handouts provided by course leader were great. Well delivered. Really informative but also entertaining. Great practical advice."
"An outstanding course - Philip was deeply knowledgeable, an excellent communicator and brilliantly engaging."
"One of the best courses I've been on. Philip Lott's unique approach to the sessions, case studies and permanent interaction was effective and valuable."