Empowering Inclusive Education: Trust-wide EDI initiatives for lasting equity and growth

By Gemma Hathaway, Senior leader and EDI Trust Lead for Blue Coat School , Coventry, part of the Inspire Education Trust In education today, the urgency for a strategic and trust-wide approach to equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) has never been clearer. Recent data...

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ASCL Council | October 2021

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...

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Flying the flag

ASCL’s LGBT Leaders’ Network is launching at a positive moment for equality, diversity and inclusion campaigners but there is much work still to do, says Rich Atterton. It was the year that Rick Astley declared he was never gonna give you up, league champions Liverpool we...

/Help-and-Advice/Inclusion/Diversity/Flying-the-flag 14/07/2021 16:29:51

Better financial reporting

In May 2019, the DfE published the  Academies Better Financial Reporting Programme paper .  Here, ASCL Specialists Hayley Dunn and Julia Harnden outline the programme’s progress. The paper set out a strategy to improve the end-to-end process for financial reporting by a...

/Help-and-Advice/Business-leadership/Financial-regulations-and-returns/Better-financial-reporting 29/06/2021 10:02:26

End child poverty

As the old proverb says: ‘ A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner ’. Well, proverb-writer, you can say that again. For many school and college leaders, the seas around us have rarely felt less smooth or choppier. Whether it’s the unnerving start-of-term reinforced autoc...

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School Synergy Attend

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ASCL UK - Summer 2024

Make magic happen Since April, we have a new Cabinet Secretary for Education in Wales – Lynne Neagle. We certainly welcome her to this new post and know that she’ll have a daunting portfolio to deal with. There are challenges in the system and that’s for sure.   So, if ...

/Leader/Issues/2024-Summer-term/ASCL-UK-Summer-2024 03/06/2024 11:57:36

Tutorial 7

Tutorial 7 Introduction This tutorial, led by Tim Gilson, will consider a number of issues from Content Area 6 Increasing Capability, all of which are assessed in Task 1. The background material for this tutorial is in  Content Area 6 Increasing Capability (Part1): Sta...

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Train to Retrain: How CPD can keep staff in the sector

As school and college leaders, you’re acutely aware of the challenges we face in retaining dedicated staff in the education sector. With teacher turnover rates climbing and budgets tightening, the pressure is on to find effective strategies that can help keep our talented educ...

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ASCL influence

Within hours, it seemed, of Michael Gove becoming Education Secretary in May 2010, maintenance staff were up ladders at what had been the Department for Children, Schools and Families, taking down the rainbows (remember them?) and replacing them with the Conservative governmen...

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