Annual Conference 2007
TEAM (Together, Everyone Achieves More)
Harrogate
Monday 30 July - Wednesday 1 August 2007
Conference gives members the opportunity to:
- influence Association policy
- raise issues which concern them
- participate in relevant debates and seminars
- listen to, and question, interesting guest speakers
- meet other members and Association staff.
Latest Voice news/speeches
Media contacts
BBC Education news ePolitix news
Media Coverage
Monday 30 July
14.00 Annual General Meeting (Members only)
15.00-15.45 Installation of new National Chairman (Geraldine Everett) and Chairman’s speech
20.30 General Secretary’s Reception
Tuesday 31 July
09.00-10.30 Motions Session I
11.00-12.00 Speaker: Barney McNeany, Northern Ireland Children’s Commission PowerPoint presentation Transcript
13.15-13.45 Speaker: Nick Gibb MP, Conservative Shadow Minister for Schools Click here for speech
13.55-14.45 Speaker: Kevin Brennan MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Children, Young People and Families Click here for speech Click here for summary
15.15-17.00 choice of Seminars:
Working towards staff well-being:
how the well-being approach can support effective and successful organisations: Jenny Blount, Head of Learning and Development,
Worklife Support
20.00 Gala Dinner (speaker: broadcaster and author Deric Longden)
Wednesday 1 August
09.30-10.15 General Secretary’s speech: Philip Parkin
10.45-11.30 Motions Session II
11.35-12.10 Professional Nanny of the Year
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Further information
Contacts: Conference Office (general Conference enquiries) or Communications Officer Richard Fraser (media enquiries and motions).
Tel: 01332 372337. Fax: 01332 290310
Photographs
Pictures by Alan Horner Photography
For copies of Conference photos, contact pressoffice@pat.org.uk
Members’ Application Form (members only) (pdf)
Motions Submission Form (members only) (pdf)
This page last updated: 05/09/07
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Plan your route (from your door to Majestic Hotel, Ripon Road, Harrogate,North Yorkshire, HG1 2HU)
Conference Motions 2007
All debated motions were carried.
‘Conference opposes the raising of the age at which young people leave compulsory education and training’.
Proposed by: Wesley Paxton (East Riding of Yorkshire)
Seconded by: Andrew Broadhurst (Lincolnshire)
‘Conference deplores the very real problem of cyber bullying in schools and demands the closure of sites encouraging such behaviour’
Proposed by: Kirsti Paterson (Inverness)
Seconded by: Catriona Tate (Dundee)
‘Conference calls for the Welsh Assembly Government to consider alternative school structures in rural areas in order to maintain community involvement in education’.
Proposed by: Kay Wilkinson (Welsh Executive Committee)
Seconded by: Peter Wilkinson (WEC)
‘Conference calls on the Government to stop interfering in educational life chances for our young people with attempts at social engineering’.
Proposed by: Peter Morris (Swansea, Neath & Port Talbot)
Seconded by: Nardia Foster (Greater London)
‘Conference believes that the ‘Every Child Matters’ agenda is in reality the ‘Every Statistic Matters’ agenda’
Proposed by: Ian Pringle (Essex)
Seconded by: Mandy Morley (Buckinghamshire)
‘Conference supports the greater use of financial incentives to recruit staff to work in difficult-to-fill posts, including shortage subjects’.
Proposed by: Peter Morris (Swansea, Neath & Port Talbot)
Seconded by: David Whitewright (Cheshire)
‘Conference believes that there is insufficient funding from local authorities and the Government for maintained schools to undertake the full support and education of children with special needs’.
Proposed by: Jess Stansfield, (Southwark)
Seconded by Jan Jones (Gloucestershire)
‘Conference is appalled at the decision of the Secretary of State to refuse to give a remit to the School Teachers’ Review Body to reopen pay negotiations and calls upon him to honour the conditions of the reopener clause set out in the STRB’s 15th Report’.
Proposed by: Caroline Carver (London) (Chair of the Professional Services Committee)
Seconded by: Ruth Taylor (Hampshire)
‘Conference believes that early learning opportunities should prepare children for life not just for school’.
Proposed by: Debe Lawson (Gloucestershire) (Immediate Past Chairman)
Seconded by: Beth Morris (Hampshire)
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