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Education conferences

Our professional development events offer the latest national initiatives, best practice and innovative, inspirational learning. 

About our conferences

Nationally renowned keynote speakers and respected experts tackle the questions that really matter, delivering to delegates practical tools and essential knowledge to take back to their schools and settings.

By attending our events and learning from leading experts, sharing and debating ideas and networking with peers, delegates are supported in their drive to raise standards, improve whole school performance and create better outcomes for children and young people.

Planned Conferences

A list of planned conferences:

  • 11 February - Spring Headteacher Briefing
  • 6 March - School Finance Team Conference
  • 9 April - Religious Education (RE) Syllabus Launch
  • 24 June - Inclusion Conference
  • 25 June - Summer Headteacher Briefing
  • 2nd July - Leaders of Learning (Final Workshop for 24/25)
  • 9 October - School Finance Team Conference

Conferences in development and planning

A list of conferences in development and planning:

  • School Improvement Team Masterclass - expected March 2025
  • Safeguarding Masterclass- expected March 2025
  • Early Years Playwork Conference - expected March 2025
  • Safeguarding Masterclass- expected June 2025
  • School Improvement Team Masterclass- expected June 2025
  • Safeguarding Conference - first one since 2021 to be face to face - expected September 2025

For planned conference details, visit: Continuing Professional Development

If you require any further information please contact Charlotte Milnes on: conferences@worcestershire.gov.uk

Access to CPD

Who can access CPD

  • each school, setting and governing board will have access to CPD
  • this will be via a CPD Leader account
  • due to the financial, budget and staff impact individual staff will not have access to CPD bookings must be made via the CPD leader accounts

How do I log into CPD

  • CPD uses your email address as your username, and this will need to match our system for access
  • password and security questions are set by the CPD leader
  • if you need to amend the email address as the username, please contact the training and conference team on workforcesupport@worcestershire.gov.uk or call 01905 844420 

I have not yet been provided with access to CPD

  • please contact the training and conference team on workforcesupport@worcestershire.gov.uk to request access
  • access will be granted to those who are responsible for staff CPD, financial and budgets or are management, owners or headteachers
  • once access has been provided you will receive a welcome email from:
    • sender: Do not Reply - Worcestershire County Council
    • email address: cap-donotreply@worcestershire.gov.uk
  •  until this welcome email is actioned access to CPD is pending

I am unable to log into CPD, who can I contact?

If you are the CPD Leader and cannot access the new site, and you have received the welcome email from CAP-DoNotReply@worcestershire.gov.uk then please contact the training and conference team on workforcesupport@worcestershire.gov.uk 

When I look in my inbox or junk/spam folders who is the sender for any bookings in relation to CPD?

  • any emails regarding confirmations, certificates, cancellations or changes to a course will be sent from:
    • sender: Do not Reply - Worcestershire County Council
    • email address: cap-donotreply@worcestershire.gov.uk
  • we recommend ensuring that the above email address is not blocked or quarantined.

Bookings, cancellations and the transfers process

Booking onto a conference or masterclass

  • must be made via CPD using your school CPD Leader login details
  • if issues or errors are encountered when booking, please contact the training and conference team by emailing workforcesupport@worcestershire.gov.uk to provide support, we advise that you take a screenshot of what you see to help resolve the problem

My colleague is not listed what do I do?

  • when you are booking a conference, if the colleague is not listed in the list of available staff, then please add them into your colleague list first
  • to do this click on the word colleagues (found on the black tool bar, underneath the WCC logo), click add colleague, complete all the fields and press save
  • then return back to the course search to book them onto the conference

Confirmations

  • are issued immediately once a booking is submitted
  • they are issued only to the delegate and will go to the email supplied at the point of booking
  • please ensure junk and spam folders are checked and look for the email address CAP-DoNotReply@worcestershire.gov.uk
  • non-receipt of confirmation is not a valid reason for non-attendance
  • confirmations can be re-sent with a minimum of 5 days’ notice to ensure we can issue it in a variety of ways to do this please contact the training & conference team on workforcesupport@worcestershire.gov.uk 

Conference and masterclass updates

  • if any conference or masterclass is updated for example to supply an agenda or directions to a venue then please note that this update will be sent to the delegate email linked to that course booking and the CPD Leader who booked their place
  • please ensure junk and spam folders are checked and look for the email address CAP-DoNotReply@worcestershire.gov.uk

Name substitutions

  • if you wish to swap a delegate from one member of staff to another, then please contact the training and conference team on workforcesupport@worcestershire.gov.uk 
  • please ensure you provide the conference title, course code, date, original delegates name, new delegates name and email address

Waiting lists for conferences and masterclasses

  • all conferences and masterclasses have a waiting list and are monitored regularly
  • as and when places become available, they will be allocated out to those on the waiting list based on upon date and time of booking

Cancellations

  • the CPD Leader will be able to cancel any conference / masterclass booking made
  • once logged into CPD click on the word colleagues (found in the black toolbar underneath the WCC logo)
  • find the colleague's name, and click view colleague, then find the course and click on cancel booking
  • the next screen will ask you to choose your cancellation reason and provide any other information
  • if you encounter issues when cancelling a place, then please email workforcesupport@worcestershire.gov.uk with the conference you wish to cancel / date / delegate name and reason why
  • please note that cancellations are to be made in line with our terms and conditions

When I look in my inbox or junk or spam folders who is the sender for any bookings in relation to CPD?

  • any emails regarding confirmations, certificates, cancellations or changes to a course will be sent from:
    • sender: Do not Reply - Worcestershire County Council
    • email address: cap-donotreply@worcestershire.gov.uk
  • we recommend ensuring that the above email address is not blocked or quarantined

Post conference and masterclass support

Certificates

  • conferences and masterclasses are not normally certificated
  • if you require a certificate for your own CPD evidence then please contact the training and conference team on workforcesupport@worcestershire.gov.uk stating which conference or masterclass, the date and delegate’s name
  • certificates will be organised within a 10-day window, if however, you are expecting Ofsted please ensure this is stated at the point of enquiry

Evaluations

  • all conferences and masterclasses are evaluated
  • Details on how to provide feedback will be sent in one of the following ways:
    • via CPD to the delegate email (linked to that course) and the CPD Leader (the person who booked the training)
    • via workforcesupport@worcestershire.gov.uk (outlook) only to the delegate email provided via CPD

Follow-on materials or resources

  • conference and masterclasses speakers and presenters may wish to share specific resources or materials with delegates once the event has taken place
  • the resources or materials will generally be issued with the evaluation link, however in some instances they will be issued separately to attendees
  • follow-on materials and resources will be shared in one of the following ways:
    • via CPD to the delegate email (linked to that course) and the CPD Leader (the person who booked the training)
    • via email (outlook) only to the delegate email provided via CPD

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Terms and conditions

Our terms and conditions can be found on our training page. They are agreed to at the point of booking any conference, masterclass or training course via CPD our booking system.

Support on using CPD

To support CPD leaders with using CPD to book a conference or masterclass we hope the following helps, if you require further support please:

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