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ASCL NI comment on Education Authority savings plans

  • Funding
  • Northern Ireland

ASCL comment on phone-free schools 

  • Leadership
  • Mobile phones

What can the education sector realistically do to reduce the number of NEETs?

  • Post-16
  • NEET

ASCL comment on Autumn Budget

  • Funding
  • Budget
  • Government

ASCL comment on STRB remit letter

  • Pay
  • Funding
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ASCL comment on calls to rethink KS2 Sats

  • Assessment
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  • Examinations
  • SATs

ASCL comment on Sir David Bell’s review into antisemitism

  • Inclusion
  • Anti-semitism
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ASCL comment on Ofsted’s Independent Complaint Review service

  • Accountability
  • Inspection
  • Ofsted

A Great Debate for the 21st century

  • Policy
  • Strategy
  • Blog

The Great Debate, 50 years on

  • Policy
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ASCL Cymru welcomes investment in additional learning needs

  • Funding
  • Cymru
  • Wales
  • ALN

ASCL comment on Ofsted inspections research

  • Inspection
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ASCL passes motion of no confidence in Ofsted’s leadership

  • Council
  • Accountability
  • Inspection
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Inclusion by design means more than having a plan

  • Inclusion
  • Strategy
  • Blog
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Building cultures that enable people and organisations to thrive

  • Mental Health
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  • Wellbeing
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  • Sustainable school leadership

Why International Experience for Teachers and Leaders Matters for UK Schools

  • Recruitment and Retention
  • International
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School teachers' pay: joint union response to Secretary of State

  • Pay
  • STRB

ASCL comment on government plans for Vocational GCSEs

  • Curriculum
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  • Key Stage 4
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ASCL Cymru calls on Senedd to back deal for schools  

  • Funding
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  • Industrial action
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ASCL NI comment on action short of strike

  • Conditions
  • Workload
  • Northern Ireland
  • Industrial action

Sustainable Leadership: A goal worth fighting for?

  • Blog
  • Wellbeing
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  • Sustainable school leadership

ASCL comment on additional funding to cover teachers’ pay award

  • Pay
  • Funding
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ASCL comment on new school food standards

  • Legislation
  • Health and safety
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Treasury funding needed to ensure safe classroom temperatures

  • Funding
  • Budget

ASCL comment on PISA results

  • PISA

ASCL NI comment on industrial action

  • Pay
  • Workload
  • Northern Ireland
  • Industrial action

Ofsted: A force for good?

  • Accountability
  • Inspection
  • Ofsted
  • Blog

Homelessness: How we can help at-risk children and young people

  • Health and Wellbeing
  • Health and safety
  • Blog
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ASCL comment on level 2 results

  • Assessment
  • Examinations
  • GCSE
  • Qualifications

ASCL Cymru comment on level 2 results

  • Assessment
  • Cymru
  • Wales
  • Examinations
  • Key Stage 4
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ASCL NI comment on level 2 results

  • GCSE
  • Northern Ireland
  • Results day

ASCL comment on level 3 results

  • Assessment
  • Post-16
  • Examinations
  • T Levels
  • VTQs
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ASCL Cymru comment on level 3 results 

  • Assessment
  • Post-16
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ASCL NI comment on level 3 results 

  • Assessment
  • Post-16
  • Examinations
  • Northern Ireland

Work-Life Balance: The freedom and constraint paradox

  • Workload
  • Blog
  • Wellbeing
  • Workforce

ASCL comment on devolution of 16-19 funding

  • Funding
  • Post-16

Reform with, not to, the profession

  • Leadership
  • Policy
  • Blog
  • Sustainable school leadership

ASCL comment on Centre for Young Lives state of nation report

ASCL comment on Prime Minister’s announcement on technical education

  • Curriculum
  • Post-16
  • Qualifications
  • NEET

ASCL responds to NFER report on pupil wellbeing and school absence

  • Safeguarding
  • Social Media
  • Attendance
  • Wellbeing

ASCL comment on appointment of new Education Secretary

  • Government
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ASCL comment on appointment of new Prime Minister

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ASCL comment on Sats results

  • Assessment
  • Primary
  • Key Stage 2
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Work Experience: Are the DfE’s new targets achievable? 

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Fall in Teachers’ Pension Scheme Contributions: What are the implications for independent schools?

  • Pensions
  • Independent
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The workforce conversation has changed

  • Professional Development
  • Strategy
  • Blog
  • Workforce

Leaders' unions declare trade dispute with Welsh Government over pay and ALN

  • Cymru
  • Wales
  • Industrial action
  • IWPRB

ASCL Cymru response to teachers' pay award announcement

  • Pay
  • Cymru

ASCL comment on school support staff negotiating body

  • Leadership
  • Conditions
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ASCL comment on calls for national languages strategy

  • MFL

ASCL comment on delay to Sats results

  • Key Stage 2
  • SATs

ASCL comment on teacher pay award

  • Pay
  • Funding

Trust Inspection and System Reform: Are we asking the right questions?

  • Accountability
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  • Ofsted
  • MAT
  • Blog
  • Schools White Paper

The Enduring Impact of Section 28 in UK Schools and Colleges

  • Inclusion
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ASCL comment on inclusion base guidance

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ASCL comment on NFER blog on falling rolls in primary schools

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ASCL Cymru comment on extension of free school meals

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Independent Schools and Multi-Academy Trusts: Back to the future?

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  • Schools White Paper

ASCL Cymru comment on plans for statutory mobile phone restrictions in Welsh schools

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ASCL comment on social media ban for under-16s

  • Legislation
  • Safeguarding
  • Social Media

ASCL comment on enrichment benchmarks

  • Funding
  • Curriculum
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ASCL comment on natural history GCSE

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  • Key Stage 4
  • GCSE
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ASCL Cymru comment on Initial Teacher Education incentives

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  • Wales
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From Intention to Impact: Join the people and culture conversation

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  • Mental Health
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Government must regulate technology firms not just children

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ASCL comment on changes to PE funding

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  • Primary
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Is context ‘truly at the heart’ of Ofsted inspections?

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  • Blog

ASCL comment on Sutton Trust report on school nurseries

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ASCL comment on risks to schools posed by climate change

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  • Sustainability

SEND reforms must avoid putting cart before the horse 

  • Funding
  • Inclusion
  • SEND

ASCL comment on King’s speech

What are the implications of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026 for the independent sector?

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  • Independent
  • Policy
  • Blog
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Assessment Reform: Adding and taking away

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  • GCSE
  • A Levels
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ASCL comment on formulae and equation sheets

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ASCL comment on AQA report on digital literacy 

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ASCL Cymru comment on protected leave for school leaders

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  • Wales
  • STPC(W)D

English and Maths Resits: More compulsion is not the solution

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  • Blog
  • Forgotten Third
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ASCL comment on Sutton Trust report on school spending cuts

  • Funding
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ASCL comment on McVittie report

  • Inclusion
  • Government

ASCL comment on NAO report on falling pupil numbers in primary schools

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ASCL comment on statutory phone ban

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ASCL comment on EPI report on shortage of educational psychologists 

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  • Mental Health
  • Wellbeing

ASCL comment on in-year growth funding

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  • Post-16
  • Skills

RISE advisers: early strengths and emerging questions

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  • Strategy
  • Blog
  • Wellbeing
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SMID and ASCL Partnership: Supporting smarter, better-informed leadership

  • Data
  • Attendance
  • Behaviour
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Future perfect? What could the independent sector look like in 2036?

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  • Independent
  • Strategy
  • Blog

ASCL comment on NFER report on fall in real terms teacher pay 

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  • Recruitment and Retention

ASCL comment on funding for SEND places in mainstream schools

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What main drivers of change are likely to impact upon the medium to long-term future of mainstream independent schools?

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ASCL comment on NFER’s teacher recruitment report

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ASCL Cymru response to Strategic Education Workforce Plan for Schools

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ASCL General Secretary warns that families are living in fear of racial harassment

  • Inclusion
  • Diversity
  • Survey

ASCL General Secretary's address to ASCL Annual Conference 2026

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ASCL President's speech to ASCL Annual Conference 2026

  • Funding
  • Recruitment and Retention
  • Government
  • Wellbeing

ASCL responds to Sir Martyn Oliver’s speech to annual conference

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  • Inspection
  • Ofsted

ASCL survey reveals the impact of parental behaviour on wellbeing of school leaders

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  • Behaviour
  • Survey

ASCL comment on NFER report on pay gap between FE and secondary school teachers

  • Pay

ASCL comment on 16-19 funding allocation 

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  • Post-16
  • College
  • Skills

ASCL comment on announcement of first V level subjects

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ASCL NI comment on outcome of Independent Review of Assessment

  • Assessment
  • Curriculum
  • Northern Ireland

ASCL comment on NFER report on difficulty recruiting teaching assistants

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  • Recruitment and Retention
  • Teaching assistants

ASCL NI welcomes publication of Framework for General Qualifications

  • Assessment
  • Examinations
  • GCSE
  • A Levels
  • AS Levels
  • Northern Ireland

ASCL comment on schools white paper

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  • White paper

ASCL comment on plan to halve disadvantage gap

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ASCL comment on reported SEND reform plans

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ASCL responds to plans over independent special school fees

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  • SEND
  • Independent
  • Special schools

ASCL comment on NFER report on factors affecting teacher retention

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ASCL comment on education estate strategy

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Which hybrid engine is right for you?

  • Benefits
  • ASCL
  • Membership
  • Blog
  • Sustainability

ASCL comment on data showing number of fines issued for term-time holidays

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ASCL responds to new guidance on suspensions

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ASCL comment on Future Minds report on mental ill health in children

  • Health and Wellbeing
  • Mental Health

The Pride in Place Programme: How schools and colleges can support local regeneration

  • Funding
  • Community
  • Blog
  • Pride in Place Programme

School leaders warn of systemic crisis as proposed 3-year budget is deemed ‘completely unrealistic’

  • Funding
  • Northern Ireland

ASCL comment on NFER analysis of teacher pay

  • Pay
  • Recruitment and Retention
  • NFER

ASCL comment on Kindred Squared report on school readiness

  • Early years
  • Education system

ASCL comment on IFS report on education spending

  • Funding
  • SEND
  • IFS

ASCL comment on new guidance for school complaints

  • Parents
  • Complaints

ASCL comment on tougher measures over mobile phones

  • Safeguarding
  • Social Media
  • Online safety
  • Mobile phones

ASCL comment on £200m SEND training programme

  • Funding
  • SEND
  • Training

ASCL comment on National Year of Reading

  • Literacy
  • Reading

What’s Coming Up at Bett UK 2026?

  • Professional Development
  • Digital
  • Blog
  • AI

ASCL comment on Education Record app

  • GCSE
  • results

ASCL comment on multi-academy trust inspections

  • Inspection
  • MAT

What's on at Bett UK 2026?

  • Digital
  • Blog

ASCL comment on Erasmus+

  • Erasmus+

ASCL responds to plans to protect children from misogyny and abuse

  • RSE

ASCL Cymru launches manifesto for education ahead of Senedd election

  • Leadership
  • Cymru
  • Wales
  • Strategy

Keynote by ASCL Cymru Director Claire Armitstead at ASCL Cymru Annual Conference 2025

  • Cymru
  • Wales
  • Strategy

ASCL Cymru comment on free school meals

  • Funding
  • Cymru
  • Wales
  • Primary
  • Free school meals
  • School meals

ASCL comment on funding for training and work experience placements

  • Funding
  • Post-16
  • Careers
  • Training
  • Skills

ASCL comment on government’s child poverty strategy

  • Poverty

ASCL comment on initial teacher training census

  • Teaching
  • Training

ASCL comment on Ofsted’s annual report

  • Inspection
  • Ofsted

ASCL NI welcomes publication of Independent Review of Teacher Workload

The Curriculum and Assessment Review: Implications for the independent sector

  • Curriculum
  • Assessment
  • Independent
  • Blog
  • Curriculum and Assessment Review

Compliance Through Connection: Building the 'how' to strengthen our protective capacity to safeguard every child

  • Safeguarding
  • Blog
  • KCSIE

ASCL comment on Autumn Budget

  • Funding
  • Budget

Ofsted’s Renewed Framework: The good, the bad, and the ugly

  • Inclusion
  • Accountability
  • Inspection
  • Ofsted
  • Blog

Considering the future of education in Northern Ireland

  • Leadership
  • Northern Ireland
  • Blog

The Teacher Wellbeing Index 2025

  • Workload
  • Mental Health
  • Blog
  • Wellbeing

ASCL comment on EPI report on attainment and pay gap 

  • Assessment
  • Examinations
  • GCSE
  • Attainment Gap

ASCL comment on breakfast club funding

  • Funding
  • Breakfast clubs

ASCL comment on attendance targets

  • Attendance

Why V levels are not just BTECs in disguise

  • Assessment
  • Post-16
  • Curriculum
  • Examinations
  • A Levels
  • BTEC
  • College
  • Blog
  • VTQs
  • FE
  • V levels

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

  • Pay
  • STRB

ASCL comment on IPPR inclusion taskforce report

  • Inclusion
  • SEND

Reading the room

  • Curriculum
  • Assessment
  • Blog
  • Reading

ASCL comment on SEND white paper delay

  • SEND
  • Policy
  • DfE

Inclusive Multilingual Reading: From research to classroom practice

  • Inclusion
  • MFL
  • Blog

ASCL comment on plans for mandatory Year 8 reading test

  • Assessment
  • Key Stage 3
  • Reading

Could your students represent Great Britain in the Olympic Esports Games?

  • Curriculum
  • Blog
  • Careers Advice
  • Webinars
  • Esports

ASCL resolves to explore legal action over Ofsted’s new inspection regime

  • Accountability
  • Inspection
  • Ofsted
  • Mental Health
  • Wellbeing

ASCL comment on teacher bursaries and scholarships  

  • Pay
  • Funding
  • Recruitment and Retention

Guaranteeing Post-16 Destinations: A welcome ambition, but schools cannot do it alone

  • Pay
  • Funding
  • Post-16
  • Blog
  • Careers Advice
  • Gatsby Benchmarks

School leaders fear new inspections will be worse for wellbeing

  • Inspection
  • Ofsted
  • Survey
  • Wellbeing

Lost in Transition: Why post-16 education needs more than policy attention

  • Post-16
  • SEND
  • Policy
  • Attendance
  • Blog

School-based Nursery Programme: phase 2 application window open on 24 September

  • Funding
  • Primary
  • Blog
  • School-based nurseries

ASCL comment on Children’s Commissioner’s school census

  • Funding
  • Pastoral
  • Mental Health

Personalised Professional Development: The key to retaining and upskilling teachers

  • Recruitment and Retention
  • Professional Development
  • CPD
  • Blog

ASCL publishes roadmap for a sustainable education system   

  • Funding
  • Policy
  • Campaigns

Introducing Sync, our new ASCL Premier Partner

  • Premier Partner
  • Benefits
  • Teaching
  • Blog
  • Technology

Well Schools: What is the experience like for a student?

  • Mental Health
  • Blog
  • PE
  • Wellbeing
  • Well Schools

ASCL comment on level 2 results

  • Assessment
  • Examinations
  • Key Stage 4
  • GCSE

ASCL Cymru comment on level 2 results

  • Assessment
  • Cymru
  • Wales
  • Examinations
  • GCSE
  • VTQs

ASCL NI comment on level 2 results 

  • Assessment
  • Examinations
  • GCSE
  • Northern Ireland
  • VTQs

ASCL comment on latest pupil absence data

  • Attendance

ASCL comment on Ofsted’s inspections roll-out measures 

  • Accountability
  • Inspection
  • Ofsted

Driving Strategic Change: A closer look at the SEND Leadership Summit

  • Inclusion
  • SEND
  • Blog

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

  • Careers
  • Blog
  • Careers Advice

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

  • Conditions
  • Pay
  • STRB

ASCL comment on Sats results

  • Assessment
  • Primary
  • Key Stage 2

Navigating alternative provision for primary pupils

  • Inclusion
  • Primary
  • Blog
  • Alternative provision

Education leaders warn they will consider encouraging withdrawal of Ofsted inspectors

  • Accountability
  • Inspection
  • Ofsted

The ASCL Benevolent Fund: Protection and care for all ASCL members

  • ASCL
  • Benevolent
  • Blog

ASCL comment on calls for auto-enrolment for free school meals

  • Funding
  • Free school meals

ASCL comment on delay to Ofsted’s consultation response  

  • Accountability
  • Inspection
  • Ofsted

ASCL comment on proposed national play strategy

ASCL comment on spending review 

  • Funding
  • Government
  • Spending Review

ASCL Cymru response to teacher pay award

ASCL welcomes free school meal expansion

  • Free school meals

Solar PV in Schools: How do schools do it?

  • Business Leadership
  • Blog
  • Energy costs
  • Energy efficiency
  • School estates

What a trial visit told me about inspection 

  • Accountability
  • Inspection
  • Ofsted
  • Blog

Being a Head: Key questions to reflect on as you step into headship

  • Professional Development
  • CPD
  • Blog
  • Coaching

ASCL comment on IFS report on impact of Sure Start

  • Funding
  • Early years
  • Sure Start

ASCL response to school teachers’ pay award

  • Pay
  • Funding

AP in the Primary Years: Proven potential and keys to success

  • Premier Partner
  • Primary
  • Blog
  • Alternative provision

ASCL comment on plans to shorten Postgraduate Teaching Apprenticeship

  • Apprenticeships
  • Recruitment

Teaching unions begin legal action against the Teaching Regulation Agency over non-compliance with Equality Act

  • Equalities

Mending the broken social contract between schools and parents

  • Complaints
  • Blog
  • Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Sister of Ruth Perry alongside coalition of education sector representatives, calls for delay to rushed Ofsted reforms

  • Accountability
  • Inspection
  • Ofsted
  • Consultation

ASCL comment on rejection of Northern Ireland teacher pay offer

  • Pay
  • Northern Ireland

ASCL comment on NFER report on supporting pupils returning from absence  

  • Safeguarding
  • Attendance
  • NFER

Engaging Students in Sustainability: A fun and impactful journey

  • Curriculum
  • Blog
  • Climate change
  • Sustainability

ASCL comment on investment in better internet connectivity for schools

  • Funding
  • Teaching
  • Technology

ASCL comment on latest pupil attendance figures  

  • Attendance

Breakfast clubs in primary schools: a no-brainer?

  • Primary
  • Blog
  • Breakfast clubs

ASCL comment on curriculum and assessment review interim report

  • Curriculum
  • Assessment

EPI pupil absence analysis shows need to tackle root causes

  • Mental Health
  • Attendance
  • Wellbeing

ASCL General Secretary calls for new ‘social contract’ with parents

  • Parents
  • Attendance

General Secretary's speech to ASCL Annual Conference 2025

  • Funding
  • Parents
  • SEND
  • Behaviour

ASCL President calls for an end to the chaos caused by social media 

  • Health and Wellbeing
  • Safeguarding
  • Social Media

ASCL President's speech to ASCL Annual Conference 2025

  • Safeguarding
  • Social Media

ASCL comment on NFER report on teacher vacancies

  • Pay
  • Recruitment and Retention
  • Workload

ASCL NI comment on strategy for education excellence

  • Curriculum
  • Assessment
  • Northern Ireland

School Cuts coalition to hold parliamentary briefing for MPs on school funding

  • Funding
  • School Cuts

ASCL comment on PAC report on pupil premium funding

  • Funding
  • Pupil Premium
  • Disadvantage Gap

ASCL Cymru comment on submission of evidence to IWPRB

  • Pay
  • Cymru
  • Wales
  • IWPRB

ASCL comment on EPI report on free school meals and pupil premium  

  • Funding
  • Pupil Premium
  • Free school meals
  • Disadvantage Gap

ASCL Cymru comment on additional funding to support schools

  • Funding
  • Cymru
  • Wales

ASCL comment on secondary school offer day

  • Secondary

Government must be more realistic about costs of breakfast clubs

  • Funding
  • Primary
  • Breakfast clubs

NFER study shows more must be done to close skills gaps

  • Curriculum
  • Early years

ASCL NI comment on NITC rejection of teacher pay offer 

  • Pay
  • Northern Ireland
  • Industrial action

ASCL comment on rise in number of fines issued for term-time holidays   

  • Attendance

Navigating the First Year of Headship: A coaching conversation

  • Leadership
  • CPD
  • Blog

Vast majority of schools to face funding cuts next year

  • Funding
  • Government
  • School Cuts

ASCL comment on submission of evidence to the STRB

  • Pay
  • STRB

Joint union evidence to School Teachers’ Review Body

  • Pay
  • STRB
  • Trade Union

ASCL comment on review of level 3 qualifications

  • Assessment
  • Post-16
  • BTEC

Joint Union Letter to Education Secretary on Pay and Funding  

  • Pay
  • DfE
  • Trade Union

ASCL comment on Bridget Phillipson’s submission to the STRB

  • Pay
  • STRB

ASCL Cymru comment on additional education funding 

  • Funding
  • Cymru
  • Wales

EPI report on isolated schools shows collaboration is key

  • Leadership
  • Recruitment and Retention

ASCL comment on Sutton Trust review of education policies of the last two decades

  • Funding
  • Government
  • Attainment Gap

ASCL comment on investment in School Rebuilding Programme

  • Funding
  • Estates
  • School estates

ASCL comment on pupil absence data 

  • Mental Health
  • Attendance

ASCL comment on expansion of attendance mentoring programme

  • Attendance

ASCL comment on Oracy Commission’s report

  • Curriculum
  • Oracy

Joint union response to STRB report and Government response consultation

  • Pay
  • STRB

ASCL welcomes decision on formulae and equations

  • Assessment
  • Curriculum
  • Examinations
  • GCSE

ASCL comment on remit letter to the STRB

  • Conditions
  • Pay
  • STRB

ASCL comment on Education Secretary’s plans for new school-based nurseries

  • Funding
  • Primary
  • Early years

ASCL responds to EPI report on mental health support gaps

  • Mental Health

ASCL comment on rollout of free breakfast clubs 

  • Primary
  • Free school meals

ASCL responds to NFER study on FE college teacher pay

  • Pay
  • Funding
  • Post-16
  • College
  • FE

ASCL comment on Key Stage 2 attainment data 

  • Assessment
  • Primary
  • Key Stage 2
  • Disadvantage Gap

ASCL Cymru comment on teacher pay award

  • Pay
  • Cymru
  • Wales

ASCL welcomes the scrapping of single headline grades

  • Accountability
  • Inspection
  • Ofsted

ASCL responds to NFER research on narrowing of subject choices in post-16 education

  • Curriculum
  • Post-16

ASCL responds to EPI analysis of absence rates in schools

  • Funding
  • SEND
  • Attendance

ASCL comment on NAO report on improving educational outcomes for disadvantaged children

  • Disadvantage Gap
  • Poverty

ASCL comment on reported teacher pay award recommendation

  • Pay
  • STRB

ASCL comment on launch of curriculum and assessment review

  • Curriculum
  • Assessment

ASCL comment on rise in suspensions and exclusions

  • Suspension
  • Exclusions

ASCL comment on Ofqual’s intention to fine NCFE

  • Assessment
  • BTEC
  • Ofqual
  • College
  • FE

ASCL comment on result of 2024 General Election

  • Government

ASCL comment on rise in number of pupils with special educational needs

  • Funding
  • Inclusion
  • SEND

ASCL comment on increase in EHCPs

  • SEND
  • Special schools
  • EHCP

School Cuts update: 66% special schools and 63% of MNS in England have faced real-terms cuts since 2010

  • Funding
  • School Cuts

ASCL comment on IFS report on inequalities within education system

  • Funding
  • Disadvantage Gap

ASCL comment on increase in teacher vacancies 

  • Pay
  • Funding
  • Recruitment and Retention

ASCL comment on rise in pupils eligible for free school meals  

  • Free school meals

ASCL comment on IFS report on pressures on school funding  

  • Funding

ASCL Cymru comment on decision not to change school holidays

  • Cymru
  • Wales
  • School Week

Ofsted’s ‘big miss’ over single-phrase judgements was ‘shortsighted’

  • Accountability
  • Inspection
  • Ofsted

ASCL comment on calling of General Election 

  • Government

ASCL comment on Education Committee’s report on teacher shortages 

  • Pay
  • Funding
  • Recruitment and Retention

ASCL comment on pupil absence statistics 

  • Attendance

ASCL comment on opening of new special schools

  • SEND
  • Special schools

ASCL comment on Ofcom proposals to improve children’s online safety

  • Social Media
  • Online safety
  • Mobile phones

ASCL comment on proposal to lift faith school admissions cap 

  • Admissions

Renewed urgency needed to tackle crisis in children’s mental health

  • Mental Health

ASCL comment on National Behaviour Survey

  • Behaviour
  • DfE

ASCL comment on government response to ESC’s Ofsted report

  • Inspection
  • Ofsted

ASCL comment on T level action plan  

  • Post-16
  • BTEC
  • T Levels
  • Qualifications

ASCL comment on government’s spending plans

  • Government
  • Spending Review
  • Spending cuts

Early intervention key to improving school attendance

  • Mental Health
  • Attendance
  • England

Incentives not enough to solve teacher recruitment and retention crisis

  • Pay
  • Recruitment and Retention
  • STEM

ASCL responds to Sutton Trust report on school spending cuts

  • School Cuts
  • Spending cuts

ASCL comment on NFER report on growing SEND challenges

  • SEND
  • NFER

ASCL comment on Progress 8 in wake of Covid pandemic

  • Key Stage 2
  • Examinations
  • Performance Tables
  • Progress 8

ASCL comment on suspensions and exclusions

  • Funding
  • Suspension

ASCL responds to Ofsted report on religious education

  • Curriculum
  • Ofsted
  • Religious education

ASCL comment on primary school offer day

  • Primary

ASCL responds to EPI report on school groups

  • Performance Tables
  • EPI

EPI report on falling pupil numbers is a timely warning

  • Budget
  • EPI

ASCL responds to Speakers for Schools’ report on university access

  • Post-16
  • University

ASCL comment on IFS report on impact of Sure Start

  • Funding
  • SEND

ASCL Cymru comment on IWPRB review of teacher and leader pay and conditions

  • Cymru
  • Wales
  • Budget

ASCL comment on appointment of Dame Christine Gilbert to lead review into Ofsted’s response to the death of Ruth Perry

  • Ofsted

Teacher Degree Apprenticeship will not be enough to solve recruitment crisis

  • Recruitment and Retention
  • Apprenticeships

ASCL comment on rise in severe absence in schools

  • Attendance

ASCL comment on school capacity data

  • SEND

ASCL Cymru comment on appointment of new Cabinet Secretary for Education

  • Cymru
  • Wales
  • Government

ASCL Cymru comment on IFS report calling for rethink in Welsh education policy

  • Cymru
  • Wales
  • Policy

ASCL comment on NFER report that recruitment and retention crisis shows no signs of abating

  • Pay
  • Recruitment and Retention

Education unions ASCL, Community, NAHT, NASUWT and NEU call for a fully funded pay increase 

  • Pay
  • Funding
  • Recruitment and Retention
  • STRB
  • Workload

Post-16 sector needs resources more than reform, says ASCL in response to Advanced British Standard

  • Funding
  • Assessment
  • Post-16
  • Maths
  • Advanced British Standard

ASCL comment on postgraduate initial teacher training targets

  • Teaching
  • Post-18
  • Training

Children’s Commissioner report highlights lack of progress over children’s mental health

  • Health and Wellbeing
  • Mental Health

EPI report on ‘suspensions grades gap’ reflects crisis in special educational needs system

  • GCSE
  • Suspension
  • SEND
  • EPI

ASCL comment on Ofsted’s response to Education Select Committee

  • Ofsted
  • DfE

General Secretary's speech to ASCL Annual Conference 2024

  • ASCL
  • Funding
  • Government

Many classrooms in poor condition after more than a decade of government underinvestment

  • School estates

ASCL calls for ‘change of tone’ as survey reveals parental disputes with schools are a factor in pupil absence

  • Parents
  • Attendance

ASCL comment on Ofsted’s ‘big listen’

ASCL President's speech to ASCL Annual Conference 2024

  • Funding
  • Government

ASCL response to the Chancellor’s Spring Budget

  • Funding
  • Budget
  • Government

ASCL comment on EPI analysis showing maths results for disadvantaged pupils are lower than before the pandemic

  • Assessment
  • Maths

ASCL comment on IFS analysis of school funding

  • Funding
  • Finance

ASCL comment on submission of evidence to the STRB

  • Pay
  • Recruitment and Retention
  • STRB

ASCL comment on government evidence to the STRB

  • Pay
  • Recruitment and Retention
  • STRB

ASCL comment on increase in school absence fines to £80

  • Attendance

ASCL Cymru comment on Education Minister’s statement on attendance

  • Cymru
  • ESTYN
  • Attendance

ASCL comment on Labour’s plan to tackle online misogyny and sexual harassment

  • Sexual harassment

ASCL comment on Sutton Trust briefing on closing the attainment gap

  • National Tutoring Programme
  • Attainment Gap

Pay levels of school business leaders may lead to mass exodus

  • Conditions
  • Pay
  • Funding
  • Business Leadership
  • STRB

School mobile phone crackdown is a non-policy for a non-problem

  • Leadership
  • Mobile phones

ASCL comment on EPI report on access to extra-curricular activities

  • EPI

ASCL comment on RAAC removal plan

  • DfE
  • RAAC

Schools with RAAC urgently need more support, says ASCL letter to Secretary of State for Education

  • RAAC
  • School estates

Teacher degree apprenticeships will not solve the recruitment crisis

  • Recruitment and Retention

ASCL comment on ChatGPT trial in schools

  • Workload
  • AI

ASCL comment on Ofsted report on urgent need to reform alternative provision 

  • Inclusion
  • Ofsted
  • Alternative provision

ASCL comment on NFER report into barriers faced by teachers of colour

  • Inclusion
  • Recruitment and Retention
  • Diversity
  • Representation

ASCL NI comment on deal to restore devolution at Stormont

  • Northern Ireland

Scrapping of hair and beauty T-level underlines need to suspend defunding of other qualifications

  • Post-16
  • BTEC
  • T Levels

ASCL comment on Education Select Committee’s call for major changes to school inspections

  • Inspection
  • Education system

Children and young people will not benefit from minimum service levels

  • Minimum service levels

Funding statistics mask impact of inflation on schools

  • Funding
  • Budget
  • Finance

ASCL comment on Sutton Trust report on deterioration of early years education

  • Primary
  • Early years
  • Disadvantage Gap

Chancellor must use Spring Budget to commit to eradicating RAAC from school and college estate

  • Budget
  • Finance

Test of Ofsted actions is what happens on the ground

  • Inspection
  • Ofsted

Education unions respond to workload taskforce recommendations

  • Conditions
  • Workload

Sutton Trust’s call for fairer admissions is only one part of the picture

  • Attendance
  • Free school meals

Labour’s child health action plan must be properly resourced

  • Health and Wellbeing
  • Health and safety
  • Government

ASCL welcomes Labour’s focus on improving pupil attendance

  • Mental Health
  • Attendance
  • Free school meals

School and further education inspections to begin from 22 January

  • Inspection
  • Ofsted

ASCL comment on pause to Ofsted inspections

  • Inspection
  • Ofsted

ASCL fully supports new GCSE in British Sign Language

  • Curriculum
  • GCSE
  • British Sign Language

STRB must not feel constrained by remit letter

  • Pay
  • Recruitment and Retention
  • STRB

Ofsted inspections are untenable following coroner’s report

  • Inspection
  • Ofsted
  • Health and safety
  • DfE

ASCL Cymru comment on Welsh government budget

  • Funding
  • Cymru
  • Budget
  • Government

ASCL will now review whether guidance on gender questioning children is clear and deliverable

  • Guidance
  • Transgender pupils

Ministers must act on EPI findings of widening disadvantage gap

  • Government
  • EPI
  • Disadvantage Gap

Advanced British Standard is ‘headless chicken policymaking’

  • Post-16
  • Qualifications

NI Executive must implement funding recommendations of Independent Review of Education

  • Funding
  • Northern Ireland

ASCL supports call by Lords committee to scrap EBacc

  • Examinations
  • GCSE
  • Qualifications
  • Education system

ASCL and NAHT call for immediate pause to Ofsted inspections

  • Inspection
  • Ofsted

ASCL responds to research showing parents favour inspection reform

  • Accountability
  • Inspection
  • Ofsted
  • Parents

IFS report shows reality behind government’s school funding boasts

  • Funding
  • Government

ASCL NI comment on letter urging Secretary of State to end cycle of underfunding

  • Funding
  • Northern Ireland

ASCL responds to ‘catastrophic’ trainee teacher recruitment figures

  • Pay
  • Recruitment and Retention

Coroner’s verdict on death of Ruth Perry must be a catalyst for change

  • Accountability
  • Inspection
  • Ofsted

ASCL comment on increase in RAAC-affected schools and colleges

  • Funding
  • RAAC

ASCL welcomes OCR’s launch of first digital GCSE

  • Assessment
  • GCSE
  • Digital

PISA results “should not be used for cheap political point-scoring”

  • Assessment
  • PISA

ASCL responds to reports of mandatory minimum service levels

  • Government
  • Industrial action
  • Minimum service levels

ASCL NI president warns of ‘a sense of injustice’ in education

  • Pay
  • Funding
  • Workload
  • Northern Ireland

ASCL comment on Ofsted annual report

  • Recruitment and Retention
  • Inspection
  • Ofsted

ASCL comment on PAC report on deteriorating school estate

  • RAAC
  • School estates

ASCL comment on additional GCSE support materials

  • Assessment
  • Examinations
  • GCSE

ASCL comment on Teacher Wellbeing Index 2023

  • Teaching
  • Recruitment and Retention
  • Workload
  • Staff absence

School Cuts website relaunched as funding crisis in education deepens

  • Funding
  • Finance

ASCL comment on 89% of schools being ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’

  • Accountability
  • Inspection
  • Ofsted

ASCL comment on report from parliamentary inquiry on young carers

  • Carers

ASCL comment on Sutton Trust report on lack of mental health support

  • Health and Wellbeing
  • Mental Health

ASCL responds to NFER report on teacher training bursaries

  • Pay
  • Teaching
  • STRB
  • Training
  • NFER

Schools on brink unless Chancellor delivers £1.7 billion in Autumn Statement for 2024/25, says joint letter to Chancellor from four education unions

  • Funding
  • STRB

ASCL responds to EEF teacher workload reports

  • Teaching
  • Workload
  • Flexible working

ASCL responds to new research from Beyond Ofsted

  • Inspection
  • Ofsted

ASCL comment on NFER evaluation of tutoring programme

  • Disadvantage Gap
  • National Tutoring Programme
  • NFER

ASCL comment on Ofsted press release about schools focusing tutoring on exam students

  • Ofsted
  • Examinations

ASCL comment on £2m investment in Oak for AI development

  • Funding
  • Curriculum
  • AI

ASCL responds to Education Secretary’s letter on RSHE materials

  • Curriculum
  • DfE

ASCL comment on minimum service levels

  • Teaching
  • England

ASCL comment on NFER’s impact evaluation of the second year of the National Tutoring Programme

  • Funding
  • Tutoring
  • National Tutoring Programme
  • NFER

ASCL NI comment on Department of Education’s corporate plan

  • Northern Ireland
  • DfE

ASCL comment on digital exams

  • Assessment
  • Examinations
  • Technology

ASCL comment on government’s refusal to restore £370m of school funding

ASCL comment on EPI report showing widening disadvantage gap

  • Funding
  • Attainment 8
  • EPI
  • Disadvantage Gap

ASCL comment on phonics screening check results

  • Primary
  • Early years
  • Reading

ASCL Cymru comment on sector summaries section of Chief Inspector’s Annual Report

  • Funding
  • Cymru

Education unions call on Government to restore £370m NFF funding

ASCL responds to Labour’s plan to encourage stronger lifelong numeracy

  • Primary
  • Maths

ASCL comment on IFS report showing rise in school costs outpacing inflation

  • Funding
  • Finance
  • Government

ASCL responds to NFER report on post-Covid learning gap

  • NFER

ASCL comment on Rishi Sunak’s ‘Advanced British Standard’

  • Curriculum
  • Post-16
  • A Levels
  • T Levels

ASCL comment on mobile phone ban during school day

  • Government
  • England

ASCL responds to AQA’s call for a new approach to numeracy, literacy and digital fluency

  • Examinations
  • Literacy
  • Digital

ASCL comment on announcement of four new attendance hubs

  • Mental Health
  • Attendance
  • DfE

ASCL comment on Education Select Committee’s report on school absence crisis

  • Mental Health
  • SEND

Education organisations outline new commitments for action on equality, diversity and inclusion in education

  • Equalities
  • Inclusion
  • Diversity

ASCL comment on Jo Saxton stepping down as chief regulator

  • Examinations
  • Ofqual

Pepe Di’Iasio confirmed as next ASCL General Secretary

  • ASCL
  • About

Eight unions and the NGA call on the Prime Minister to invest £4.4bn+ per year to get a grip on the school buildings crisis

  • Funding
  • Government
  • Risk assessment
  • Environment
  • RAAC

ASCL comment on Prime Minister’s plan for ‘British Baccalaureate’

  • Post-16
  • Key Stage 4
  • A Levels
  • T Levels
  • Qualifications

ASCL comment on NFER report on teaching assistants leaving to work in better paid roles

  • Employment
  • Teaching
  • Support staff
  • NFER

Education unions in united call to Secretary of State for urgent measures to improve teacher pay and conditions

  • Pay
  • STRB
  • Workload

ASCL comment on IFS report on applications to secondary schools

  • Progress 8
  • Secondary
  • DfE

ASCL comment on updated list of RAAC-affected schools

  • Health and safety
  • DfE
  • RAAC

ASCL comment on new teacher workload taskforce

  • Recruitment and Retention
  • Workload

ASCL comment on NFER report on schools with in-year deficits

  • Funding
  • Primary
  • England

ASCL comment on NFER report on impact of cost-of-living crisis on schools

School leaders’ unions write to Education Secretary demanding apology for her ‘insulting’ and ‘unacceptable’ remarks

  • Health and safety
  • DfE
  • RAAC

ASCL calls for consultation on single-phrase judgements following Ofsted complaints reform

  • Inspection
  • Ofsted
  • DfE
  • Performance measures
  • Education system

ASCL comment on Labour’s plan to reintroduce School Support Staff Negotiating Body

  • Pay
  • Business Leadership
  • STRB
  • Support staff

ASCL calls for urgent answers over crumbling concrete crisis

  • Health and safety
  • DfE

ASCL Cymru calls for urgent answers over use of RAAC in Welsh schools and colleges

  • Cymru
  • Health and safety

Unions write to education secretary to demand answers on RAAC in schools

  • Funding
  • Health and safety
  • Risk assessment
  • DfE
  • RAAC

ASCL comment on crumbling concrete guidance

  • Inspection
  • Health and safety
  • Risk assessment
  • DfE

ASCL NI comment on report into children’s mental health and wellbeing

  • Health and Wellbeing
  • Mental Health
  • Northern Ireland
  • Behaviour
  • Education system

ASCL comment on GCSE and Level 2 VTQ results

  • Assessment
  • Examinations
  • GCSE
  • Ofqual
  • Secondary
  • VTQs

ASCL NI comment on GCSE and vocational qualification results

  • Assessment
  • GCSE
  • Northern Ireland
  • Secondary
  • VTQs

Pepe Di’Iasio nominated for ASCL General Secretary

  • ASCL

ASCL announces dates of strike ballot

  • Funding
  • Government
  • Education system
  • Industrial action
  • Ballot

ASCL to hold formal strike ballot

  • Teaching
  • Education system
  • Industrial action
  • England

Results of ASCL consultative ballot on industrial action in England

  • Pay
  • Industrial action
  • England

Results of ASCL consultative ballot on industrial action in Wales

  • Pay
  • Wales
  • Industrial action

ASCL responds to energy bill relief scheme

  • Funding
  • Business Leadership
  • Financial planning
  • Finance
  • Government
  • Energy costs

ASCL comment on Ofsted’s publication of its 5-year strategy 

  • Accountability
  • Inspection
  • Ofsted
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