WELCOME ABOUT BDAT OUR ACADEMIES BDAT BUSINESS EMPLOYER OF CHOICE NEWS CONTACT US BDAT Staff Conference October 2021 Inclusion Matters – Celebrating Diversity and Difference across the BDAT family The BDAT all-staff conference took place on Friday 22nd October 2021 hosted at Bradford Cathedral and was live streamed into the 17 academies. The event was attended by nearly 1000 BDAT staff and was led by some fantastic speakers including Sir David Carter, Professor Udy Archibong, The Very Reverend Andy Jolley and facilitated by the wonderful Peg Alexander. Attendees also got to hear from representatives of the Trust Board – Tessa Mason, Nurjahan Ali-Arobi, Denise Sterling and CEO, Carol Dewhurst on why inclusion is important to the BDAT Family and what is going to happen next. We are already planning our next conference pencilled in for Friday 21st October 2022! The conference looked at the importance of inclusion and diversity as a core value of BDAT. This year we will be running a staff and student wide consultation on what inclusion means through the eyes of our staff and student body and where we need to improve our practice to celebrate diversity and difference. We need to understand better the real life lived issues which face our young people today. The conference also celebrated the power of being part of a family of schools within a strong MAT structure. Each of the BDAT schools are proudly individual. We talk about our approach being one of aligned autonomy. By this we mean that while we look to streamline and harmonise our practices we don’t expect every school to deliver exactly the same way. We hope that the conference will continue to shape and develop colleagues’ thoughts around diversity and difference, why they might have these thoughts and what could they do to develop their practice. We hope that colleagues will use these reflections when they contribute to the BDAT ICARE consultation. More information on the conference can be found below: Programme for BDAT Conference 22.10.21 BDAT Staff Conference Speaker & Panel Biography Conference 2021 – Slides for Delegates To view the full conference please click here If you would like to contact us please email: conference@bdat-academies.org Twitter @wearebdat and #inclusionmatters See our latest tweets Carol Dewhurst OBE@DewhurstCaz·2h If you are in the LWY RSC area pls don’t forget to vote for your advisory board reps https://hub.ukevote.uk/dfe Its so important the views of those doing the job get heard If you know me you will know I am about what’s best for all of us… Working together the sector is stronger Twitter 1463991704512573442 BDAT@WeAreBDAT·24 Nov Fantastic collaboration between the Geography leaders this afternoon @WeAreBDAT #greatwork #highquality #collaboration4 Twitter 1463518217230503939 BDAT@WeAreBDAT·24 Nov Fantastic collaboration between the Geography leaders this afternoon @WeAreBDAT #greatwork #highquality #collaboration4 Twitter 1463518217230503939 © BDAT 2016. All rights reserved Privacy Policy Cookie Policy Contact Us