Rachel Foster

A late night as trustee:seeing the demands of the #education sector through another lens is always thought provoking. The complexity of issues, pressures, demands, & expectations on school leaders continue to grow. BUT the passion & resilience to provide for pupils is inspiring.

Even MORE oupdated policies on @oneeducation.bsky.social website (membership area)
Don’t worry if we don’t provide your #HR - policies can be purchased individually!

📌Appraisal
📌Attendance
📌Capability
📌Code of Conduct
📌Leave of Absence
📌Lone Working

Look forward to 2026 by booking onto our Spring Term Training on the @oneeducation.bsky.social website

🧡Safer Recruitment Refresher (accredited) January 16th

💜Critical Incident Management February 12th

💚Asbestos Awareness February 24th

All schools welcome!
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Busy day on Wednesday at the @oneeducation.bsky.social SBM conference with the HR service represented by Paula Shacklady talking about restructures & redundancies and earlier with Rob Merino and myself discussing academisation #education #HR #Governance

With return to work interviews proven to shorten absence duration by 35%, it was great the #HR team in @oneeducation.bsky.social could pass on some of the soft skills required for these meetings, explore reasonable adjustment requests and how these should be responded to in educational settings.

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The HR teams last Autumn Term🍂 training on Effective Return To Work Meetings on 26 Nov is now sold out !
For information on their Spring Term courses just click the link or look on the @oneeducation.bsky.social website.
#HR #LeadershipDevelopment

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The morning started at the Schools & Academies Show with @jograyeducation.bsky.social
hearing from Minister of Schools along with Sir Martyn Oliver @ofstednews.bsky.social
& many more on the educational landscape, making sure we know what’s over the horizon too! @oneeducation.bsky.social

🌟 Get to know our team!

Listen as we sit down with Helen Marriott, our Head of Inclusion, and chat about her experiences supporting children with speech, language and communication needs.

Informative HR Circle 🔵 this morning discussing the Management of Critical Incidents in Educational Settings and Martyn’s Law

Next session in January is on Health & Safety and HR overlap
To join this virtual network contact: hrcircle@oneeducation.co.uk
@oneeducation.bsky.social

Informative Primary Heads Mtg: play sufficiency, moderation, mainstream inclusive provision, attendance, & healthy schools. Fantastic news of the outstanding judgement for Manchester City Council’s Children’s Services 2025 Ofsted inspection. Proud @oneeducation.bsky.social is a strategic partner.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning. We will remember them.

#RemembranceDay

See you all next Wednesday for updates on Critical Incident Management and #MartynsLaw

📆 The next HR Circle takes place on Wednesday, 12 November.

A chance to discuss 'Managing Critical Incidents' alongside other HR Leaders in education.

Not a member? Contact hrcircle@oneeducation.co.uk to join!

📆 Mark your calendars for the School Finance Autumn Conference, taking place on Wednesday, 26 November 2025!

➡️ SLA & Contracts
➡️ Recruitment & Redundancies
➡️ What is Martyn’s Law?
➡️ Introducing Finance Next Gen
➡️ Growing MATs

Book your place: bit.ly/4gNHQxE

Case Study: School Website | One Education Discover how to our Marketing Team worked with Manchester Virtual School to enhance their school website and elevate their online presence.

💬 “Working with One Education has made the development, launch and maintenance of our website an exciting and pain free process!"

Discover how we collaborated with the Manchester Virtual School to transform their school website:

Always enjoying meeting & talking with Headteachers from across Greater Manchester as part of the @oneeducation.bsky.social Lead Network facilitated by @jograyeducation.bsky.social Interesting conversations on lots of strategic issues in education #LeadershipMatters
#LeadershipDevelopment

30+ attendees on our Understanding & Maintaining Single Central Record training with fabulous feedback.
Answered queries on contractors, visitors, ID docs, GDPR & Teacher prohibitions.
For Schools & MATs interested in our SCR Audit, critical for Ofsted👇

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Wow what a day! Being part of the @oneeducation.bsky.social HR team planning for the future, then an afternoon of team building by supporting schools via enhancing 2 different outdoor sites in Manchester and Tameside

(loving the camaraderie, creativity & collective effort & autumn fresh air🌱🍃💪🍁🍂)

🚨 #NowHiring: We are looking to appoint a highly motivated and experienced HR Business Partner.

An opportunity to provide high-quality, specialist pupil facing and management services to schools and academies.

Apply here: bit.ly/4nKaLEU

#HRCareers #HRJobs

I was joined yesterday for the @OneEducation HR Circle🔵 by #HR Directors, Managers & staff from MATs across the whole country, Federations & the Independent #education sector - so lots of networking opportunities. Next mtg Nov 12- sign up here oneeducation.co.uk/hr-circle/

Join our circle 🔵 this Wednesday- all those responsible for #HR in schools and MATs welcome 👇

First training session completed this morning for middle managers in educational settings from across #GreaterManchester

Great #FridayFeeling with the marvellous attendee feedback on the course & the views!

Book onto @oneeducation.bsky.social courses here👇
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The first HR Circle of this academic year takes place next Wednesday, 24 September.

A chance to discuss the Employment Rights Bill alongside other HR Leaders in education.

Not a member? Contact hrcircle@oneeducation.co.uk to join! @oneeducation.bsky.social

The Employment Rights Bill was being voted on yesterday by MPs in the House of Commons, taking another step towards becoming law. Read my blog on how it impacts educational settings 👇@OneEducation @OneEducationHR

The Rethinking Education Podcast | One Education Learn all about Rethinking Education, the podcast that brings together leading experts in education to share stories from the sector. Available to listen to on Spotify.

⭐ A new school year always feels like a fresh start – with new faces, possibilities, and challenges too.

We’re back with the Rethinking Education podcast, your free resource for staying informed and inspired as the school year unfolds.

Learn more:

Safeguarding Spotlight: Contextual Safeguarding Lauren Foster, Safeguarding Specialist discusses supporting schools to effectively and respond to contextual Safeguarding issues.

🌟 Our latest Safeguarding Spotlight is officially live!

Listen to our Safeguarding Specialist Lauren Foster discuss how schools can effectively record and respond to contextual #safeguarding issues.

Watch now for free:

Hope this is helpful was useful as a discussion note for our HR Circle last year

🎉 Welcome to the 2025-26 academic year! 🎉

We hope you all had a wonderful summer break and are feeling refreshed and ready for another exciting year ahead.

🚨 September is closer than you think!

We're here to help you stay up to date and compliant with #KCSIE2025.

Find out what’s changing and what steps schools need to take to prepare for the next academic year.

Read here: bit.ly/44AHyEv

Read our blog as we address misconceptions that have arisen from the Writing Framework:

❌ Handwriting lessons from the start of Reception.
❌ Children are taught how to write letters in September.
❌ Focus on letter formation rather than physical development.

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Been busy at the river too in Zimbabwe 🇿🇼