Sponsors
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Computeam
Computeam has a track record stretching back over 20 years. We’ve built successful long-term partnerships with hundreds of schools across the country, and work to become a trusted advisor helping with each client’s ICT strategy and school improvement plan.
Computeam can deliver on all of your school’s ICT needs, providing a seamless service. We can therefore take full ownership of any ICT issues, as well as helping move forward with your strategy. 
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Towergate Insurance
Towergate are proud to be working alongside Exeter Consortium as the preferred provider of Staff Absence Insurance. With over 20 years’ experience we understand how disruptive absence can be on the running of your school and this year our rates are more competitive than previous years. We are also offering 10-months interest free payments to help you spread the cost (subject to status). www.towergateinsurance.co.uk/care-and-medical/staff-absence-insurance?referrer=googleppc&gclsrc=aw.ds&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIs7W4yNCx9QIV0uh3Ch36OAWkEAAYAyAAEgLMPPD_BwE As education insurance specialists, we offer a range of insurance covers, including:
In addition, we have a range of services to help you mitigate risk and reduce absence including health and safety support, valuation services, a health and wellbeing hub and HR and employment law advice. Our policy gives you:
For more information:
Feel free to give Adrian Henley a call at any point if you wish to discuss further. Adrian's contact details can be found below: Adrian Henley | Business Development Executive | Caring Professions Division | Towergate Insurance Brokers | www.towergateinsurance.co.uk M: 07484 531975 | L: 01438 739626 | E: adrian.henley@towergate.co.uk |
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SchoolPro
SchoolPro TLC Limited was formed by school and education leaders with over 60 years of experience across all stages of education and in a variety of contexts. The company founders have worked to improve educational provision as both senior leaders and school governors. The company was formed with the fundamental belief that funding for pupils is being taken out of the classroom to meet the ever-increasing demands of school leadership. Our aim is to provide cost-effective solutions that allow more funds to be deployed to directly improve the life chances of young people. In a context where schools struggle with budget and capacity issues at all levels, access to experience and knowledge that can be deployed across multiple schools and trusts gives education providers the ability to provide a flexible and responsive solution to capacity, skill or knowledge deficit problems. Our experience could enable you to direct more funding to the pupils to broaden the experiences they receive in school. We provide services and support in the following areas:
For more information, visit our website at https://schoolpro.uk Data Protection Officer Service As an education provider, you have a responsibility to protect your students, staff and school. But the responsibility isn’t just with protecting the physical form – it also comes down to the protection of any information or data you hold about said individuals and how it’s managed and controlled within your environment. SchoolPro TLC provides the role of Data Protection Officer (DPO) as a service for schools to demonstrate an enhanced level of data protection compliance to the Information Commissioner's Office. Our DPO Service is intended to assist schools and Multi Academy Trusts (MATs) in complying with the requirement to appointment such a role with the responsibilities set out in the Data Protection Act 2018. Our staff are experienced school leaders so understand the data flows and need for data in different areas of the school. Our support as DPO includes a free online recording and reporting system for all relevant GDPR information, so you don't have to pay additionally for another expensive system. We also provide a great deal of functions compared to some other purchased services, including completed Data Privacy Impact Assessments and compliance checking of supplier data privacy agreements. HOW IT WORKS:
DATA PROTECTION AUDITS One of our DPO's will carry out audits to provide an assessment of whether your schools are following good data protection practice. The audits will look at whether they are following your policies and procedures and make recommendations for improvements including any new guidance from the ICO. The audits can be undertaken alone or in conjunction with your DPO. DATA PROTECTION PORTAL In line with the Data Protection Act 2018 and in conjunction with the ICO published audit reports from MATs we have designed a portal that enables schools and MATs to hold and log all relevant data protection information in one place. This includes all of our policy and document templates as well as the logging and reporting of data breaches, subject access requests and data decisions. All school-specific documents are hosted here including audit reports and all logs are also easily downloadable for review at governor or trustee level. The portal is split into five distinct sections:
Our online tool is hosted and secured on servers located in the UK. Our systems and processes anonymise all data where possible so it is not personally identifiable and we have a regular routine for deletion of any identifiable information. DATA PROTECTION TRAINING / CPD Aims of this session are:
All of our CPD sessions can be delivered to a whole staff body or we offer bespoke sessions for different groups of staff, for example governors, senior leaders, admin, SENDCO, new starters, or as refresher training. For example, our Data Protection Training for SENDCOs and DSLs covers the following:
Our CPD sessions are delivered on site with staff, so they can fully engage and ask questions that are directly relevant to school staff and their specific role. As we are experienced school leaders, we do understand the need for all roles in school, so our advice and guidance is education- and role-specific. Whole staff sessions run for about an hour, other bespoke sessions can vary in length depending on need. Where INSET time does not allow for one of our sessions, we will provide materials for all content and keep you informed of any relevant updates. As we don't want to hold too much personal data, we do not hold lists of names of staff that attended courses but we will record when school training took place and the content delivered. We provide all schools with a data sharing agreement to include necessary guarantees about data. |
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MILSTED Langdon
Specialist Financial Planning Advice Milsted Langdon Financial Planning has helped thousands of people make the most of their financial affairs. We offer expert, bespoke advice from local advisors and are always on hand to offer support when you need it. We can help with financial services including:
When you’re making any decisions regarding your financial future, it is important to choose the right financial advisor. We are proud to offer complete independence and research the entire marketplace to find solutions that suit you – we are not tied to any providers, meaning our advisors offer unbiased and unrestrictive advice. Sound financial planning is the key to success. Any decisions made must be part of an overall financial plan, which should be structured in a way that is affordable, sustainable and helps you achieve your goals. Awarded by the Personal Finance Society (PFS), Pension Transfer Gold Standard aims to give consumers confidence that they are working with expert pension advisers that are guided by a set of principles. These principles, alongside Pension Works’ Financial Conduct Authority regulation, guide us to ensure any pension advice or pension transfers we undertake for our clients is of the highest quality. |
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WOLFERSTANs solicitors
Wolferstans are education law specialists providing a complete service for local schools. The services we offer include; ongoing human resources and employment law support, education law, SEND Tribunals, Employment Tribunals, Academy conversions and MAT mergers/expansion projects in addition to expertise and experience of handling complaints to the ICO and Subject Access Requests. We are the region’s local education experts boasting a client base of more than 100 Schools throughout Devon and Cornwall. Our clients range from some of the largest MATs to individual primary Schools all of whom have chosen Wolferstans to provide their ongoing HR and/or legal support because of our pragmatic solutions based approach which is delivered at an affordable and cost effective price.
Our team includes education specialists dedicated to providing on-going support to Schools meaning they understand the unique quirks of the education sector. Providing daily support of this nature means our specialists are familiar with the STPCD, Burgundy Book, PCC, CCC and DCC existing template policies and the freedoms which are available to academies. We offer a range of packages and SWIFT members are entitled to a 10% discount, please see the booklet below for further details. |
