Make connections, discuss your settings and share best practices.

Deepen engagement with parents and carers to ensure an aligned and informed response to wellbeing.

Understand the harm of social media algorithms and how they influence young people – gain tools to support student wellbeing in a digital world.

Some of the young people with the greatest mental health needs are also those least able to access education. Local authorities, schools and families can find themselves supporting highly complex cases in which anxiety, trauma, neurodivergence, disrupted relationships and repeated experiences of failure have made conventional provision inaccessible.
This keynote explores how we can re-engage these young people, restore sustainable attendance and help them rediscover confidence, curiosity and joy in learning.
Drawing on Nudge Education’s work with autistic, neurodivergent and chronically disengaged young people, Diego Melo will show how trusted relationships and genuinely personalised education can rebuild identity, routine, resilience and readiness to learn.
Through real stories and a practical framework, delegates will consider how local authorities, schools, families and specialist partners can work together earlier and more flexibly - rebuilding the human conditions in which wellbeing, participation and learning become possible again.

Explore the intersection of SEMH and SEND through the lens of regulation and dysregulation. Takeaway practical, sensory-informed strategies and usable frameworks to help learners with co-occurring difficulties feel safe (and good) in their bodies, relationships and environments, supporting wellbeing, engagement and attendance.  

Understand what matters most to your colleagues and how you can influence change to improve the wellbeing of your staff community.