2026–27 Events Calendar

£354 – £658.80Range as held on the calendar; the tier breakdown behind it is not recorded

Preparation for MAT-level Ofsted inspection, expected from 2027: how it differs from school inspection, the strategic role of trustees and executive leaders, articulating the trust’s vision and improvement strategy, trust-wide safeguarding oversight, and what counts as credible trust-level evidence and self-evaluation.

MAT executive teams and boards — explicitly pitched as a strategic, executive-level event. The most senior audience of any September date.

FreeOpen to everyone in early years and childcare; places are limited and ticketed

SEND in early childhood — inclusive practice strategies and resources, interactive panel discussions, and a day of SEND CPD and networking. One leg of a national roadshow that closes on Early Years SENCO Day.

Early years educators, nursery and childcare staff, parents and EY professionals — practitioner level rather than commissioning.

Not published online — booked on enquiry.Westminster Insight, 0345 647 9000

Safeguarding and multi-agency response to the 143,500 children reported missing education in 2024/25; Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026 duties; exploitation and county-lines safeguarding. 6 CPD hours; speakers include Dame Carol Homden (Coram) and Peter Hughes (Mossbourne Federation).

LA CME officers, education welfare managers, virtual school heads, headteachers, designated safeguarding leads and school improvement advisers — mid to senior LA and school leadership.

Invite-only — no attendee ticket, so a sponsor package is the only way in.
Silver £9,749.25 +VAT · Premium Silver £12,749.25 +VATBoth figures are after a one-off 25 per cent discount, confirmed in writing by Millie-Mae O’Neill on 26 Aug 2026, saving £3,249.75 and £4,249.75 respectively. 2026 list prices, all +VAT: Bronze £7,999 · Silver £12,999 · Premium Silver £16,999 · Gold £19,999 day two or £20,999 day one (min 18 1:1s and a 20 minute presentation) · Platinum £31,999 · Headline £44,999. The £11,999 and £15,999 previously held here were 2025 introductory rates and are superseded. Payment 30 days from signing, or 20:40:40 on request

For delegates: peer benchmarking, a co-created “Action Manifesto”, vendor 1:1s and “Dragons’ Den” pitches. For a sponsor at either Silver tier: a guaranteed minimum of 9 one-to-one meetings with up to 14 possible, and all delegate contact data, which Millie confirmed on 26 Aug is included at Silver as well as Premium Silver. Premium Silver adds the Dragons’ Den slot — a 60 second pitch to the full room, which is itself a way of generating extra meetings. A 20 minute stage presentation starts at Gold.

99 confirmed delegates from 65 trusts — senior MAT leadership: CEOs, CFOs, COOs and Directors of Education (37 CEO-level, 46 C-suite).

£159 – £249 +VATSuper early £159 · Early bird £179 · Standard £249. Includes lunch, entry to Childcare & Education Expo National, 20% off Expo CPD seminars, the after-show party and the slides

Expert speakers on innovative practice, practical strategies and current research for helping every child with SEND thrive; building settings that are genuinely inclusive by design.

Designed exclusively for early years leaders — owners, managers, lead SEND advisors, SENCOs, EY advisors and SLT leads. A decision-maker audience, unlike the free roadshow dates.

£10 – £20The cheapest ticket on the whole calendar — a broad-access show rather than an executive event

Wales’s leading education event: over 50 CPD-accredited seminars plus a supplier exhibition, covering classroom practice, inclusion, leadership and staff support.

Welsh school staff across the full range of roles, from classroom teachers to leadership. The only Wales-based date in the set.

FreeNo cost line on the calendar entry, but the body text states free to attend for everyone in EY and childcare, limited ticketed places

The Bristol leg of the same roadshow as the Manchester date — SEND in early childhood, inclusive practice, interactive panels, CPD and networking.

Early years educators, nursery and childcare staff, parents and EY professionals.

Not on the calendar entry.Worth pricing before the two paid SEND dates later in the month, since the audience here is the most senior

The future of SEND provision against the rollout of the SEND and Alternative Provision Improvement Plan: rising demand, inconsistency between areas, workforce pressures, multi-agency collaboration, and implementing the SEND Code of Practice across education, health and care.

Senior leaders, practitioners and policymakers together — the cross-sector education, health and care mix, with policy people in the room.

£355 – £520 +VATVoluntary sector £355 · Public sector £395 · Private sector £520 — Purple Ruler would pay the private rate

AP policy and practice against the Schools White Paper and SEND reform, including the £860m 2026–27 investment behind roughly 11,000 new SEND and AP places. Safeguarding for complex needs, accountability frameworks, early intervention and post-16 pathways. 8 CPD points plus an e-guide and the slides.

Primary, secondary, FE and HE providers, government education policy leads, charities and think tanks; teachers, trustees, policy managers and academics. Mixed seniority. Context cited: 37% of children need extra learning support at some point (Nuffield 2025) and AP placements are up 30.2% since 2020 (DfE 2025).

FreeFree entry to a heads-and-trust-leaders audience — unusual, and worth checking how it is funded

Keynotes plus a self-curated day: bespoke sessions across six themed rooms running both morning and afternoon, so delegates deep-dive on their own priorities. Follows nEdEx’s record-breaking March 2026 conference.

Headteachers, trust leaders and senior staff. A senior audience at no ticket cost.

FreeThe only two-day free event on the calendar

Affordable, practical, effective SEND CPD — 30 years of supporting front-line teaching and support staff, drawing on practitioners, leaders and lecturers. Positions inclusion as an opportunity to share rather than a problem to solve.

Front-line teaching and support staff above all, plus leaders and lecturers. Described as the UK’s leading SEND event, so the largest audience of the five on 9 October.

Free

Good practice in pastoral care and support that builds inclusion and a sense of belonging: keynotes on current thinking, practice presentations on effective pastoral support, and a Question Time panel.

Pastoral leads and staff working directly with children and young people on personal development — the closest audience fit to one-to-one and reintegration work.

Free

Building and sustaining the culture of high-performing teams — how clarity, collaboration and disciplined execution drive lasting improvement. Expert speakers, practical workshops and sector-leading partners.

Named as a must for CEOs, headteachers, COOs, CFOs, business managers and HR managers. The most commercially senior free event in the whole set.

£8 per ticket

A community day for the Kent SEND community: psychologists, speech and language therapists, teachers and authors, alongside exhibitors including specialist schools, charities, therapists and SEND businesses.

Parents and carers first, with Kent SEND professionals alongside them. Family-facing rather than a commissioner audience — the outlier on this date.

FreeFree for everyone in EY and childcare; limited ticketed places

The finale of the Early Years SEND Roadshow, held on Early Years SENCO Day as a conference and celebration: inclusive practice, interactive panels, SEND CPD and networking.

Early years educators, nursery and childcare staff, parents and EY professionals — the third of the three roadshow dates on this calendar.

£100Tea, coffee and a light lunch included

Inclusive teaching built through responsive practice, combining Teaching WalkThrus techniques with Formative Action Loops — Tom Sherrington and Valentina Devid’s work. Think Pair Share, Cold Call, Show Me Boards, Check for Understanding, live modelling and guided practice, used to surface understanding, catch misconceptions in real time, design re-teaching routines and verify that learning has stuck.

Leaders, teachers and coaches. The only genuinely pedagogical, classroom-practice date on the calendar — everything else is policy, commissioning or exhibition.

Not published — enquire or book online.No tiers or group rates disclosed on the public listing

Halving the disadvantage GCSE gap under the 2026 White Paper; Pupil Premium funding-eligibility changes; evidence-based PP strategy under tighter Ofsted scrutiny; targeted cohorts including SEND, looked-after children and coastal communities. 6 CPD hours plus a 14-day on-demand replay.

Pupil Premium leads, finance teams, SLT, governors and trustees, pastoral and attendance leads, virtual school heads and SENDCOs — across primary, secondary, trusts, PRUs and LAs.

Not yet known.Enquiry drafted 13 Aug 2026 to conference@cstuk.org.uk, asking the provider rate and whether non-member providers can attend as delegates at all

Theme is “Connecting”: how the sector and civic leaders respond to the ambitions of the White Paper and the SEND reforms, treating relationships from classrooms to systems as an underestimated driver of change.

School trust leaders, chief executives and executive teams. Billed as the biggest conference for trust leaders in the country, so the densest room of trust decision-makers in the year.

~£279 +VAT concessionary/charity rate cited online.Unverified on the booking page itself — standard, public and private tiers are not published; 10% online discount; group rates on request

White Paper SEND reforms and the tiered support model, Individual Support Plans, EHCP changes, SEND funding reform, and Ofsted’s inclusion-focused inspections. 6 CPD hours plus a certificate.

Headteachers, SENDCOs, educational psychologists, school improvement officers, LA SEND commissioners and MAT inclusion directors; speakers include DfE officials and trust CEOs.

£135 – £190Early bird member £135 · early bird non-member £160 · full member £165 · full non-member £190 — membership of Dyslexia Scotland is worth £25–30 here

Skills and knowledge aimed squarely at Scotland’s dyslexia attainment gap. Keynote from Louise Selby on morphology as an alternative reading method, plus in-depth workshops on dyslexia-focused interventions for primary and secondary settings.

Scottish primary and secondary teachers and support staff. The only Scotland-based date, and the only one held on a Saturday.

Free to attendConfirmed on the organiser’s own site. That makes it the cheapest room of decision-makers anywhere on this calendar. Not yet confirmed: whether a commercial provider attends free or only school and council staff, and what exhibiting costs

The South East’s largest education exhibition and conference, CPD accredited: a conference programme, workshops, and an exhibition of suppliers to schools and academies.

Head teachers, finance directors, bursars, business managers, governors, local authority education leaders, PTAs, IT managers and senior leadership teams, across state, academy and private sectors. It names local authority education leaders in its own audience description, which very few events on this calendar do.

Not yet known.Enquiry drafted 13 Aug 2026 to ncasc@adcs.org.uk. Delegate booking opened early in 2026, so places may already be moving. Exhibition enquiries go via Lee Westney

Three days on delivering effective services for children, young people and adults, across the whole of children’s and adults’ social care and education.

Directors of children’s services, senior local authority leaders and elected members. These are the people who hold and sign off the placement budgets for SEND and alternative provision, which makes this the closest audience match on the whole calendar.

3m × 2m stand £6,300 · 3m × 3m £9,450
SEND theatre speaking slot £8,500, charged on top
Together: £14,800 or £17,950 +VATFull packages quoted by David Hickey, GovNet, 18 Aug 2026. The £6,300 buys 6 square metres of shell scheme with name board, lights, 500W power and carpet, a website listing, a 100 word profile in the event guide, 2 stand passes and pre-event marketing support. The £9,450 buys 9 square metres and 5 passes. The £8,500 case study package is a 30 minute session in a theatre of your choice, branding on the signage outside it, a leaflet drop on every chair, and the contact details of everyone who attends the session (name, job title, organisation, email, phone, interest area), subject to opt-outs. Attending without a stand remains £799 +VAT a head, show access only. A further 5 per cent per show is available for booking Birmingham 2026 and London 2027 together

A large exhibition rather than a closed conference, supported by the Department for Education. The co-located EdTech Summit and Independent Schools Conference are part of the show and are not charged separately, so one exhibition package reaches all three audiences. Every exhibitor also gets ConnectEd, their meeting platform, which opens six weeks before the show so you can book one-to-ones with visitors in advance, with their team helping set them up. Booking is a simple e-signature, not a long contract.

3,500–4,000 unique visitors: over 1,000 schools and academies, 620 individual trusts across the last two shows, and 75% of the top 50 trusts. Over 80% of school and trust attendees are on their senior leadership team. The local authority share is about 15 per cent — the figure that decides this one for us, answered on 17 August. Separately, 47% of all registered attendees name SEND and inclusion as a key reason for attending, which is the strongest audience signal on this calendar.

Not published — enquire directly.By analogy with Westminster Insight’s other 2026 events: roughly £299–379 +VAT public sector, higher private rate, 10% online discount, group rates on request — unconfirmed for this event

The four-tier AP support model (Universal, Targeted, Targeted Plus, Specialist), “Experts at Hand” early-intervention frameworks, quality assurance of non-school AP, and the December 2026 inclusion strategy requirements.

Headteachers, CEOs and senior AP leaders, inclusion, behaviour and attendance leads, virtual school heads, LA officials, youth offending teams and health commissioners.

Not on the calendar entry.Same organiser as the 7 October AP Conference, where tiers run £355–£520 +VAT — a reasonable expectation, but unconfirmed

Connects Get Britain Working reforms — the Youth Guarantee, Growth and Skills Levy, Youth Jobs Grant and the biggest apprenticeship reforms in a decade — to organisational delivery, with engagement strategies, youth voice and employer engagement. Context cited: 1,012,000 16–24s NEET (ONS 2026), projected to reach 1.25m by 2031, at an estimated £104,300 cost to the economy per case (Policy Connect 2025).

Cross-sector: education providers, employment support, employers and policy leads. The longest day on the calendar at seven and a half hours.

Not published — sold via Eventbrite.An early-bird window was mentioned, closing 10 Sep 2026, but no figures were found publicly

“Inclusion by Design”, across four strands: SEND reform and universally inclusive classrooms; reducing exclusion; family and community voice and belonging; and inclusive leadership. 900 attendees, 40 workshops, 35 exhibitors.

MAT leaders, headteachers and senior leaders across mainstream, AP and special schools, plus LAs, health professionals, funders and charities — leadership-skewed, and the largest single audience on the calendar.

Exhibiting price still not quoted in writing.A call was held on 18 Aug 2026 and a proposal followed the same day, but it is a live web page rather than a document or an attachment: proposal.bettshow.com. Stand pricing sits on a tab inside it, alongside the floorplan, the audience insights and an education priorities report. No figure from it has been repeated back to us in an email, so there is still nothing dated or signed to put in a budget, and the page can change underneath us. The only numbers Hyve have written down remain the sponsorship range: over 100 items from £2,500 for a razor-screen advert up to £46,000 to sponsor the Government Lounge, which carries branding plus staff access to the room where government officials sit. Stand prices vary by location, stand type and number of open sides

The largest education technology exhibition in the world: 37,616 unique attendees, 59,535 total footfall, 809 exhibitors and 550+ speakers across 130 countries. The one event in the year where being an online school is the proposition rather than a footnote. There is a dedicated SEND zone, separate from the teaching and learning solutions zone and with a different visitor profile, and nine themed theatres take speakers, SEND among them. What visitors say they came for is the awkward part: the top challenge is generative AI at 60%, then curriculum and assessment at 42%, with SEND third at 33%. On products, 41% want AI-powered solutions and only 14% name virtual learning environments including hybrid — the closest category to what we actually sell.

Read at last, on 28 August, from the audience report Hyve attached on 14 August — and it is not the audience we assumed. Of 37,616 unique attendees, 42% were international and 7,512 were other solution providers, roughly one in five people in the building. 16,605 came from education institutions. Of those, state schools are 42.4% and multi-academy trusts only 9.6%, which is about 1,600 people. Private and independent schools are 24.9%, a quarter of the education audience and not our market. There is no local authority category in the breakdown at all — the nearest is “Government, National Group or Trade Agency” at 1,551 people, and that count includes UNESCO, the OECD and overseas ministries. On seniority: 12.7% are C-level, 15.5% senior leadership, 18.1% head of department or director, while 19.2% are teaching staff and 11.8% support staff. A quarter of attendees hold budget responsibility under $10,000.

Not published for 2027 — exhibitor stand pricing on enquiry.Two addresses are in play: the stand enquiry route on file is conference@navsh.org.uk, but both speaking emails went to info@navsh.org.uk. Stands are tiered and released in two phases, half in each, so a later stand enquiry is not necessarily shut out. Historic reference only: the 2021 online conference charged £100 exc VAT for the first four delegates from one team and £50 after — a virtual delegate rate, no guide to an in-person stand

Children in care, care-experienced young people and children with a social worker — how identity, lived experience and systemic inequality intersect in their lives. The one date on this calendar aimed squarely at the virtual school audience.

Virtual School Heads and Virtual School Teams, with leaders, practitioners and policy makers. Purple Ruler cannot buy a delegate ticket — NAVSH restricts those to VSHs and their teams. The routes in are an exhibitor stand, or a speaking or hosting slot.

Booth fee not stated — and priced in USD, the only non-sterling entry.Each booth covers registration for 2 attendants; additional attendants are $249 each

This is an exhibitor invitation, not a delegate ticket. The LDOE is inviting approved professional learning partners and non-profits aligned to its priorities to apply for the Education Expo, which connects Louisiana educators with partners outside the scheduled sessions for Q&A, relationship building and sharing practice.

Louisiana birth-to-grade-12 educators, preparing for the 2027–28 school year. Exhibitors are LDOE-approved professional learning partners and non-profits — Purple Ruler is LDOE-approved, so eligibility is settled and only the booth fee is outstanding.

£109 at the 2026 editionIncluding lunch and refreshments. Nothing is published for 2027, so treat this as the best available guide rather than a price. Around a hundred pounds a head for the densest room of SENCOs in the year

A full day of practical SEND CPD. The 2026 edition ran 20 sessions with 40+ speakers on the theme “Inspiring SEND Innovation Through Times of Change”, covering SEND reform, inclusive practice, early intervention, assistive technology, parental partnership and specialist-mainstream collaboration. Speakers included Annamarie Hassall MBE, Adam Boddison OBE, Lorraine Petersen OBE and Barry Carpenter CBE.

SENCOs, teaching assistants, tutors, support staff, teachers, early years practitioners, educational psychologists, inclusion managers and leaders, newly qualified teachers, senior leaders, head teachers, governors, consultants and students, alongside parents and carers. The most precisely matched practitioner audience on the calendar for a SEND and alternative provision business.

Unknown — no enquiry has been sent.Still to ask: the delegate rate, whether a provider can attend without a stand, exhibitor and sponsor costs, and the deadline for proposing a session

Two days at Wellington College. The 2026 edition drew 6,000+ attendees and more than 500 speakers. Its character is CPD and ideas rather than procurement, so the value here is reach and reputation, not a stand full of buyers.

Overwhelmingly the people who deliver teaching: classroom teachers, middle leaders, subject leads and senior leaders. Over 80% come from state-funded schools and further education colleges. The largest practitioner gathering in the country, and nothing else on this calendar is close on volume.