How do we deal with AI complaints? With Alistair Wood
Oct 23, 2026 · 52 min · 14 segments
This week, Adam and Amy are joined by Alistair, the CEO of Edapt to discuss all things HR, AI complaints, national policy, and how to avoid getting sacked.
Oct 23, 2026 · 52 min · 14 segments
This week, Adam and Amy are joined by Alistair, the CEO of Edapt to discuss all things HR, AI complaints, national policy, and how to avoid getting sacked.
Adam BoxerHostAmy ForresterHostThe first is that a lot of the political activity of the main teaching unions makes me deeply uncomfortable.
Wages are being spent on conferences and motions about political ideas that have absolutely nothing to do with what's happening on the schools.
um to give me what i need in terms of protection but without the political um nonsense that goes alongside some union behavior and i'm not holding back on my opinions and um the second part is actually it's more of a personal one but i find it really difficult as part of a part of the leadership team of a school um When strike action and things like that and the political sway of unions and different union groups, I don't want to be affiliated with some of that.
And I feel like as part of the leadership team, I should be removed from that sort of thing.
And like in the past, before ADAPT, I've seen union behaviour that has criticised me openly as a professional to union members of which I was a member of that union at the time.
And it was at that point that I thought there's a conflict of interest here and I need to do, I need to be part of something else.
So, you know, a good analogy for me is that I used to be a member of the Labour Party, right? While, you know, in the run up to the last election, um, I was a paid up member of the Labour Party.
I agreed in large part with the manifesto and I was happy to contribute my money towards that process.
But then after the election, when they started doing stuff that I disagreed with, I cancelled my membership.
And like, I don't agree with, you know, any year is definitely going to be out for me.
The first is that a lot of the political activity of the main teaching unions makes me deeply uncomfortable.
Wages are being spent on conferences and motions about political ideas that have absolutely nothing to do with what's happening on the schools.
um to give me what i need in terms of protection but without the political um nonsense that goes alongside some union behavior and i'm not holding back on my opinions and um the second part is actually it's more of a personal one but i find it really difficult as part of a part of the leadership team of a school um When strike action and things like that and the political sway of unions and different union groups, I don't want to be affiliated with some of that.
And I feel like as part of the leadership team, I should be removed from that sort of thing.
And like in the past, before ADAPT, I've seen union behaviour that has criticised me openly as a professional to union members of which I was a member of that union at the time.
And it was at that point that I thought there's a conflict of interest here and I need to do, I need to be part of something else.
So, you know, a good analogy for me is that I used to be a member of the Labour Party, right? While, you know, in the run up to the last election, um, I was a paid up member of the Labour Party.
I agreed in large part with the manifesto and I was happy to contribute my money towards that process.
But then after the election, when they started doing stuff that I disagreed with, I cancelled my membership.
And like, I don't agree with, you know, any year is definitely going to be out for me.
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