ASCL comment on Sutton Trust report on school nurseries

Tiffnie Harris, Primary Specialist at the Association of School and College Leaders, comments on a report from the Sutton Trust examining progress on opening new school-based nurseries.

/News/Our-news-and-press-releases/ASCL-comment-on-Sutton-Trust-report-on-school-nurs 21/05/2026 00:00:00

Advanced Safeguarding Leadership Programme

Cohort 2 commencing November 2026 This Advanced Safeguarding Leadership Programme is designed to build upon existing safeguarding knowledge and skills, equipping experienced DSLs with the expertise needed to navigate increasingly complex and challenging safeguarding lands...

/professional-development/Programmes/Advanced-Safeguarding-Leadership-Programme 02/05/2025 15:15:38

Elections

ASCL Council elections ASCL Council election results A huge thank you to the members who stood in this year’s elections to ASCL Council . We are very grateful that so many members were keen to support ASCL and your colleagues in this way. The elections have now conclud...

/About-us/Organisation-and-Governance/ASCL-Council/Elections 25/06/2019 12:46:32

April 2026

28 April 2026 (including social media restrictions for under-16s, MPs scrutinise phone ban, Employment Rights Act: What you need to know podcast and webinar, campaign for 16-19 student premium, supply staff fees capped, stepping stone qualification, funding for autism supp...

/News/Newsletters/Weekly-newsletters/April-2026 02/06/2026 16:06:09

ASCL Council | February 2022

What is ASCL Council?  Council is ASCL’s governing body, responsible for directing and controlling the organisation. It is also the engine room of our policymaking, representing members’ views on issues from curriculum, assessment and inclusion to governance, leadership an...

/About-us/Organisation-and-Governance/ASCL-Council/Council-discussions/ASCL-Council-February-2022 04/02/2022 12:32:18

Employer Engagement: Helping students connect learning to the world of work

By John Lomas, Employer Engagement Project Lead, ASCL Associates member , and former senior leader. Picture the scene, a Friday Year 10 middle ability maths lesson on algebra. The teachers is trying hard to engage the pupils, who are well meaning, when one confident indivi...

/News/Blog/July-2025/Employer-Engagement-Helping-students-connect-learn

June to August 2025

21 August 2025 Welsh translation Special bulletin: Level 2 results 14 August 2025 Welsh translation Special bulletin: Post-16 results 18 July 2025 Welsh translation (including Hotline over the summer break, the next newsletters,  outcomes on data and inform...

/News/Newsletters/Cymru-News/June-to-August-2025 03/10/2025 08:52:12

Closing the diversity gap

It is well established that teachers from minority ethnic backgrounds are disproportionately more likely to leave teaching. Teachers from a white ethnic background have the lowest leaving rate from state-funded teaching (9%), compared with teachers from Asian (11%), black (1...

/Leader/Issues/2026-Spring-term/Closing-the-diversity-gap 02/03/2026 15:11:20

Teacher and school leader pay – joint education union response to Secretary of State

Responding to the Secretary of State’s consultation on the STRB report, ASCL, NAHT, NEU and Community have set out their united view on the need for the Government to provide the additional investment needed to fully fund September’s 4% teacher and school leader pay increas...

/News/Our-news-and-press-releases/Teacher-and-school-leader-pay-–-joint-education-un 09/07/2025 00:00:00

Joint union statement to the School Teachers' Review Body in England

A statement to the STRB from ASCL, NAHT, NEU and Community, representing the majority of teachers and school leaders in England, calls for urgent, significant and fully funded movement towards complete reversal of the real terms pay cuts for teachers and school leaders sinc...

/News/Our-news-and-press-releases/Joint-union-statement-to-the-School-Teachers-Revie 30/10/2025 00:00:00