Are you looking to attend an Alternative Provision Conference in 2025?

You will find an aggregate list of conferences that might fit your needs here!

This list will be updated periodically as more conferences are announced.

Is your conference not listed here? Let us know and we’ll get you added.

October 2025

Conference: Tes SEND Show 2025
Date: Friday 10th October – Saturday 11th October 2025
Location: Business Design Centre, 52 Upper Street, The Angel, London N1 0QH
Organisers: Mark Allen Group
Details: The Tes SEND Show 2025, taking place on 10–11 October at London’s Business Design Centre, is the UK’s largest event dedicated to special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). The event features over 100 exhibitors, free interactive workshops, and a CPD-certified seminar programme with 42 expert-led sessions. Highlights include the SEND Leadership Summit on 10 October for senior leaders, and a Parent, Carer and Teacher Forum offering practical advice and peer support. The show brings together educators, SENCOs, therapists, and local authority professionals to explore the latest resources, strategies, and innovations in SEND education. Entry is free with registration, while seminars and summit access require paid tickets.

November 2025

Conference: Alternative Provision London Conference
Date: Wednesday 26th November 2025
Location: Central London (Venue TBA)
Organisers: Westminster Insight
Details: Westminster Insight’s Alternative Provision London Conference, scheduled for Wednesday 26 November 2025 in Central London, offers a comprehensive day of expert-led sessions aimed at professionals involved in arranging, delivering and monitoring alternative provision (AP). It begins with a keynote on funding, AP guidance and the SEND & AP Improvement Plan, followed by practical workshops covering strategic commissioning, quality assurance, safeguarding and measuring pupil impact. Attendees will hear from mainstream schools on early intervention for behaviour, attendance and SEMH challenges, learn about internal AP outreach, and explore children’s perspectives on provision and stigma reduction. Ofsted’s 2024 thematic review and new inclusion-focused inspection criteria will feature, alongside discussion of multi‑agency collaboration—bringing together education, health, social care, youth justice and others—to re-engage vulnerable young people.

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