London

Amelie is Assistant Director of Education (SEND and Specialist Provision) at Greenshaw Learning Trust. She is also a Trustee at Leo Academy Trust and is their safeguarding / SEND Trustee. Amelie is also regional lead for Whole School SEND in the London region and was a lead author on the Department for Education commissioned Whole School SEND Teacher Handbook: SEND - Embedding Inclusive Practice. Amelie has extensive leadership experience and is passionate about strong system leadership, including governance, that challenges and enables all leaders to deliver on distributed leadership for SEND. Amelie has worked in several roles, including as SENCO, Head of Inclusion and Headteacher and in all these roles focused on developing school-wide systems that built inclusive practices so that all children could thrive. 

Rebecca is the Director of Inclusive Learning for Every Child, Every Day Multi Academy Trust, supporting Headteachers, Senior Leaders and SENCOs to develop person-centred approaches to inclusion. She is also a Tutor/Facilitator for the NPQSEN and a Module Leader for Real Training in collaboration with Middlesex University, and a Trustee for Auriga Academy Trust. She has over 15 years of experience as a Senior School Leader in inner-city schools. As part of these multi-faceted roles, she has developed and delivers a course on SEND leadership, helping SENCOs to build leadership capability and influence whole-school practice. She also sits on several Local Authority panels, including Workstream 5 and a High Needs’ Funding Group. Through her role as Deputy Regional SEND Lead and Director of Inclusive Learning, Rebecca equips school leaders with the tools to strengthen SEND provision by ensuring statutory duties are met, embedding adaptive teaching approaches, and developing policies that enable a joint SEND approach in every school within the Trust, ensuring needs are identified and met effectively.