January to March 2025

28 March 2025 Welsh translation (including attendance of pupils in maintained schools 2 September to 14 March 2025, NFER report on supporting returning from absence, counselling for children and young people, Qualifications Wales new regulatory framework, advance notice ...

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The Association of School and College Leaders is the leading trade union and professional association representing  primary , secondary , independent , business , trust , and post-16  leaders and we'd love to welcome you to our community.  Unsure if you're eligible? H...

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Guidance

Pupil registration and attendance The DfE has updated its guidance on school attendance and registration, making it statutory for all schools and academies in England since August 2024. It sets out legal requirements for schools and academies in relation to attendance an...

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Part three | Working with vulnerable pupils (SEND and disadvantage)

Part three | Working with vulnerable pupils (SEND and disadvantage)  The material in this section is linked with the following section of the Teaching and Curriculum Excellence Content Area.   Learn how to: Learn about: Assessment Criteria: Tested in: Assess and i...

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The evolution of business leadership

Close your eyes, take 150 steps back, one for each year of ASCL, and you will find yourself in 1874. What does it look like, what does it sound like, what does it feel like as a business leader? We know it will have been very different to the current day. A lot may have cha...

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You hold the power

A decade since they were introduced, the Gatsby Benchmarks for good careers guidance have been updated. Strong leadership will be crucial to making these updates a success. The updated benchmarks emphasise how important it is for education leaders to embed good careers guidanc...

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Clear direction of travel

Tell us about your role I’m Headteacher at Galleywall Primary School in Central London, part of the City of London Academies Trust (COLAT). Galleywall serves an area with a wide range of cultures and relatively high level of deprivation, providing great stimulation and a...

/Leader/Issues/2025-Spring-term/Clear-direction-of-travel 04/03/2025 14:32:05

Free breakfast clubs – good for everyone?

Clause 21 of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill  aims to deliver Labour’s manifesto ambition that “[schools] in England must secure that breakfast club provision is available, free of charge, for all qualifying primary pupils at the school”. The word ‘secure’ means her...

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ASCL UK

Stronger together Welsh education is different and I'm not sure we always appreciate how it is. Collaboration is key to our education system in Wales; never once as a school leader did I feel alone or isolated. I always felt part of a bigger reality than just my own. And ...

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What are schools for?

At this year’s Annual Conference, ASCL launched a year-long project on Ethical Leadership in Education - you can read more about the background to this in Carolyn Roberts' article Shared Values in issue 96 of Leader magazine. This is the third in a series of eight blo...

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