Keeping Children Safe in Education 2021

ASCL response to the government consultation on Keeping Children Safe in Education 2021.

/Our-view/Consultation-responses/Keeping-Children-Safe-in-Education-2021 04/03/2021 00:00:00

Schools NFF: Proposed changes to sparsity funding from 2022/23

ASCL's response to the consultation on schools NFF: Proposed changes to sparsity funding from 2022/23.

/Our-view/Consultation-responses/Schools-NFF-Proposed-changes-to-sparsity-funding-f 08/04/2021 00:00:00

Modernising school attendance and admission registers

ASCL response to modernising school attendance and admission registers and setting national thresholds for legal intervention

/Our-view/Consultation-responses/Modernising-school-attendance-and-admission-regist 26/07/2022 00:00:00

RSHE guidance briefing paper: July 2025

ASCL SEND and Inclusion Specialist Margaret Mulholland has produced a briefing paper for members following the DfE's publication of its revised Relationships, Sex and Health Education (RSHE) statutory guidance on 15 July 2025.   RSHE guidance briefing paper July 2025

/Help-and-Advice/Curriculum-and-assessment/RSE/RSHE-guidance-briefing-paper-July-2025 18/07/2025 14:27:22

New resits rules

In 2014, the government introduced  the condition of funding, which meant that schools and colleges with 16–19 year-olds without a grade 4 in English and maths (approximately a third of all Year 11 students) would lose their entire student funding unless they enrolled the stu...

/Leader/Issues/2024-Summer-term/New-resits-rules 31/05/2024 16:20:36

Business leaders’ pay

At the end of 2023, ASCL undertook a member pay survey of business leaders. As there is no national framework for business leaders in place, there is a huge disparity in business leaders’ pay. It was important to us to get an accurate, up-to-date picture from members. Ala...

/Leader/Issues/2024-Summer-term/Business-leaders’-pay 03/06/2024 11:39:47

FE FI FO FUND

The Skills and Post-16 Education Act 2022 promised a new dawn for the UK's skills sector, with the government pledging to prioritise skills development and reshape the further education (FE) landscape. Two years on, however, the reality on the ground tells a different story. D...

/Leader/Issues/2024-Autumn-term/FE-FI-FO-FUND 08/10/2024 15:21:55

ASCL UK

Leading together The return of Stormont has, perhaps somewhat surprisingly, brought with it a degree of stability and a platform for education to move forward in Northern Ireland. The pay deal and workload agreement unlocked the stalemate of industrial action, which in tu...

/Leader/Issues/2024-Autumn-term/ASCL-UK-Autumn-2024 08/10/2024 16:30:39

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...

/Leader/Issues/2024-Autumn-term/ASCL-influence 08/10/2024 16:39:59

The rise of online AP is about more than just capacity

by Alessandro Capozzi, Executive Headteacher,  Academy21  Capacity is an increasingly common theme in conversations about alternative provision (AP), and rightly so. We know that systemic factors such as limited capacity in children’s mental health services and high rat...

/News/Blog/February-2024/The-rise-of-online-AP-is-about-more-than-just-capa