NICEC Network Meeting: Inclusive Practice
Online
NICEC Network Meeting – 22nd May 2025 2pm to 4.30pm BST
Inclusive Practice - Supporting and empowering clients with additional learning needs
This online network meeting will explore how career guidance can best support and empower clients with additional learning needs. It will investigate:-
- The skills and approaches that build the capacity of career guidance professionals to empower clients.
- The importance of advocacy and networking with a range of partners and stakeholders.
- Pressures faced by practitioners and how reflective practice and supervision and support strengthens practice.
- The role that employers can play in supporting transition.
AGENDA
2pm Welcome and introduction
Martin Edmondson - Meeting chair (CEO, AGCAS; NICEC fellow)
2.10pm Fostering an Inclusive and Sustainable Career Ecosystem
William E. Donald (Donald Research & Consulting, Associate Professor, Southampton Business School, University of Southampton)
Dr Elizabeth J. Cook (Research Associate, Nutrition & Health Innovative Research Institute, Edith Cowan University, Australia)
2.40pm Tailoring SEND careers support in schools
Vicky O’Connor (Employability and Employer Engagement, Westminster School, Sandwell)
3.10-3.20pm BREAK
3.20pm What happens next in challenging times for disabled graduates
Martin Edmondson (and Claire Toogood, Research and Insights Manager), AGCAS
3.35pm Strategies for inclusive practice in career counselling
Jules Benton (Chief Executive, Cosmic Cactus)
3.50pm Discussion groups (break-out rooms)
- What pressures and challenges are faced by practitioners and researchers?
- How can reflective practice, supervision and support strengthen practice?
- What can we learn from each other?
4.20pm Final thoughts and reflections, and close – led by Martin Edmondson (Chair)
