Optimus' HR Update and People Strategy 2026
07 May 2026
London
Join us at this essential conference designed for HR leaders, HR professionals, school business managers and bursars to understand how upcoming changes to HR and employment law affect education settings.
This comprehensive event focuses on cultivating positive workplace cultures that position schools and MATs as employers of choice, with legal experts and HR professionals providing crucial updates on employment law, long-term people strategy, absence management, creating inclusive workplace cultures, and recruitment, retention and remuneration.
Our Browne Jacobson HR and employment law experts will be exhibiting at this vital conference where you'll stay compliant with insights into new rules and budget repercussions, develop sustainable people strategies, strengthen staff wellbeing provision, and adopt creative approaches to solving recruitment challenges whilst harnessing AI tools to work more efficiently.
Contact
Dai Durbridge
Partner
dai.durbridge@brownejacobson.com
+44 (0)330 045 2105
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