Part one | Staff supply, recruitment and retention, CPD strategies and Talent Management

Part one | Staff supply, recruitment and retention, CPD strategies and Talent Management  The material in this section is linked with the following section of the Increasing Capability Content Area    NPQEL (Leading several schools) Learn how to: Learn about:...

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Diane Morrow

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Steve Orr

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Public Sector Low Carbon Skills Fund

Public Sector Low Carbon Skills Fund Phase 4 of the Public Sector Low Carbon Skills Fund (LCSF) has been announced. The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero has made available up to £17 million of funding for Phase 4 LCSF which will be delivered by Salix Finance. The...

/Help-and-Advice/Business-leadership/Business-Operations/Public-Sector-Low-Carbon-Skills-Fund 30/03/2023 12:23:03

Testing, testing: How ready are you?

Earlier this year we set out our expectations of the much-anticipated Schools White Paper. Above all, we wanted clarity of purpose. Now, several months on from its publication, we can test alignment with the Employment Rights Act and Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act, both ...

/Leader/Issues/2026-Summer-term/Testing,-Testing-How-ready-are-you 08/06/2026 12:34:17

Are you ready?

Public sector procurement is changing. Since leaving the EU, the UK is no longer bound to the four current EU-based set of regulations, one of which is the Public Contracts Regulations (PCR) 2015, which people engaged in procurement will be familiar with. The new Procureme...

/Leader/Issues/2024-Autumn-term/Are-you-ready 08/10/2024 16:14:30

Under the microscope

A system that works – mostly Published in November last year, the final report of the Curriculum and Assessment Review landed with a reassuring tone. Echoing the interim report , the review panel concluded that the primary assessment system is broadly working well, part...

/Leader/Issues/2026-Spring-term/Under-the-microscope 02/03/2026 15:18:44

ASCL Council | October 2025

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, f...

/About-us/Organisation-and-Governance/ASCL-Council/Council-discussions/ASCL-Council-October-2025 15/10/2025 13:43:25

Annual return statement

Income and Expenditure The total income of the union for the period was £8,653,382. This amount included payments of £7,486,334 in respect of membership of the union. The union’s total expenditure for the period was £9,131,722. The union does not maintain a political fund....

/About-us/Organisation-and-Governance/Constitution-and-policies/Annual-return-statement 04/07/2019 16:08:55

ASCL influence

As George Washington famously pointed out to an impetuous and frustrated Alexander Hamilton (in the musical at least, which is good enough for me), “Winning was easy, young man. Governing is harder.”   After almost a year in power, this refrain may be ringing in the ears o...

/Leader/Issues/2025-Summer-Term/ASCL-influence 12/06/2025 11:52:55