Employment Law for Heads and Senior Leaders - Tuesday 12 May 2026 (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

 

11.20

Refreshment break in lounge

11.40

Session 2:

  • Equalities rights: Who is now protected (and who isn’t!)?
  • Gender reassignment/ Trans Rights: the evolving landscape
  • The pitfalls of interviews
  • Handling requests for flexible working

 

13.00

Lunch in restaurant

 

13.45

Session 3:

  • The rights of fixed-term/temporary staff
  • Rights to time off
  • Changing staff contracts
  • Addressing persistent ill-health

 

14.45

Refreshment break in lounge

14.55

Session 4:

  • The current rules on industrial action
  • Employment v self-employment
  • Settling disputes and claims
  • Latest Developments: The radical Employment Rights Act 2025

 

16.00

Questions and closing remarks  

16.10

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.