Hear from the CEO of MTPT and look at your strategy for supporting working parents in your organisation
In the midst of our ongoing recruitment and retention crisis, we know that we need to do all we can to fill vacancies with quality practitioners, and hold on to valuable staff. But more often than not, our focus falls onto recruiting new trainees into the profession, and retaining them beyond the first 3-5 years. With recruitment targets missed again and again, it’s a system that doesn’t seem to be working. So what are we missing?
Join Emma Sheppard, founder of The MTPT Project, the UK’s charity for parent-teachers, to understand how concentrating our efforts on a different group of teachers – women aged 30-39 – will have a greater impact not just on teacher retention, but on recruitment, quality of teaching and learning and the overall health of our workforce.
She’ll share little-known statistics about this mid-career demographic, the largest group to leave teaching every year, as well as what we can do to support them to remain in the profession. You’ll finish the session with an improved understanding of Schools Workforce Census data, strategies that you can implement immediately, and a vision for a longer term plan for retention, equality and wellbeing.
This session will be held on Monday, 19th October 2026 from 2pm to 3.30pm at Sandringham School.
Speaker
Emma Sheppard
Founder of The MaternityTeacher PaternityTeacher Project
The MaternityTeacher PaternityTeacher Project
The UK’s charity for parent-teachers.
Inspiring, empowering and connecting teachers choosing to complete CPD on parental leave.
Book in a call with me: www.calendly.com/emmasheppard
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