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3:00pm - 5:00pm, 15 October 2025
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Event Details
Members Meeting
Wednesday 15th October
Registrations and refreshments 2:30pm-3:00pm
Meeting 3:00pm-5:00pm
Venue: JMW, 1 Byrom Street, Manchester M3 3HG
Networking drinks from 5:00pm
Kindly sponsored by
Key Takeaways
- Understand the Regulatory Shift - Clear insight into upcoming legislative changes and how they impact contractor engagement models.
- Know Your Options and Risks - Practical guidance on navigating PSC vs umbrella decisions, with expert and peer-led perspectives.
Meeting Agenda
Responding to Legislative and Regulatory Change
As the landscape of employment legislation is evolving, businesses in the professional staffing and recruitment sector are preparing for a fresh wave of regulatory change. With information now emerging, this session will explore how these developments are already influencing compliance behaviours, market dynamics, and contractor engagement models.
This session will explore whether we are seeing a shift away from umbrella company models back towards PSCs (inside or outside IR35), and what this could mean for our members. What are the options available in light of these changes? How do they stack up in terms of risk, reward, and commercial viability? And how should firms adapt their strategies to remain compliant while maintaining competitive advantage?
Welcome & APSCo update
Samantha Hurley, Managing Director, APSCo UK
Regulatory update
Devon-Lee Andriés, Senior Associate, JMW Solicitors LLP
A scene-setting overview of the proposed legislative changes, with insight into how the market is expected to respond and what members should be preparing for.
Panel discussion - understanding the options
A practical discussion with our panel of experts; with representatives from Kingsbridge, JMW Solicitors LLP, Professional Passport and Giant exploring what the changes will mean in practice.
Topics will include:
- Compliance obligations
- Commercial considerations
- Behavioural trends among clients and contractors
- Managing risk and remaining agile
Panellists
Devon-Lee Andriés, Senior Associate, JMW Solicitors LLP
Crawford Temple, CEO, Professional Passport
Dan Haslam, Chief Business Development Officer, Giant Group
Round table peer discussions
Breakout discussions hosted by our expert facilitators will allow members to share concerns, explore different approaches, and learn from each other.
Q&A and close
This event is offered to members to ensure clarity and knowledge and to support members in navigating a period of complex changes.
Speakers
Devon-Lee Andries
JMW, Associate
Devon-Lee is a Senior Associate in the Employment Law Department at JMW.
She is experienced in advising employers on employment contracts and HR policies, the employment aspects of mergers and acquisitions, grievance and disciplinary proceedings and other day-to-day HR queries. Her contentious experience encompasses advising on employment tribunal claims ranging in complexity including discrimination and whistleblowing claims.
Devon-Lee is qualified as both a Solicitor of England and Wales and as an Attorney of the High Courts of South Africa. She enjoys presenting training sessions to clients on a number of topics including legislation/case law updates and equality and diversity and endeavours to do so in an easy-to-understand, clear manner without complicated legalese.
Crawford Temple
Professional Passport , CEO & Founder
Crawford Temple is the CEO and founder of Professional Passport which was established in 2007 as the UK’s largest independent assessor of payment intermediary compliance. Its mission is to create a more level playing field across the sector and provide a positive differentiation for those providers operating in line with those standards. Today, Professional Passport is widely recognised as the benchmark of provider compliance with many in the supply chain today insisting on using Professional Passport accredited providers. As an expert and veteran of the industry, Crawford wrote the first book on operational compliance for umbrella providers and in 2021 he wrote The Good, The Bad and The Ugly which highlighted the challenges facing the umbrella market. Crawford is a prolific industry commentator and works closely with many key Government departments on all matters relating to supply chain compliance to support and promote the sector and drive-up standards.
Dan Haslam
Giant Group, Chief Business Development Officer
Dan Haslam is Giant Group’s Chief Business Development Officer, where his key focus is helping clients manage their contingent workers compliantly and cost effectively, using the whole range of Giant’s services and products.
Dan has over 15 years’ experience in the industry so understands first-hand the challenges businesses face when it comes to changing legislation and the constant flux of risk and legislation that impacts the contingent worker market.
