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As Pride Month begins, new Childline data highlights the fears many LGBTQ+ young people still face. Why belonging, acceptance and mental wellbeing matter in every school.

The recently published report from the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) should make uncomfortable reading for anyone involved in school leadership. Its central finding is both striking and concerning: pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) are not evenly distributed across England's mainstream schools. Instead, they're becoming increasingly concentrated within a subset of schools. Some schools are carrying significantly higher levels

A critique of the DfE’s increasingly performative social media strategy and why government communications should focus less on virality and more on rebuilding trust with schools and teachers.

Foundational knowledge is more than the basics. It's the essential knowledge, vocabulary and concepts that enable pupils to understand, remember and build future learning. This blog explores why secure foundations matter, how they support deeper thinking and why curriculum clarity has become increasingly important.

Partnership oversight in higher education has become increasingly complex. As universities work across larger and more diverse partnership portfolios, the challenge is no longer simply one of compliance or operational management. It’s about how institutions secure continuous improvement, respond proportionately to risk and, ultimately, safeguard students’ educational entitlement across a wide range of contexts. Yet historically, whilst universities have often had partnership

Based on early apprenticeship inspection reports under the revised framework, this blog explores key themes shaping provision. From curriculum coherence to inclusion and stretch, it highlights what inspectors are focusing on and what this means for leaders preparing for inspection.

Improvement planning should be a dynamic, disciplined process, not a static document. Rooted in self-evaluation, focused on root causes and delivered through 100-day cycles, this approach sharpens priorities, strengthens impact and drives sustained improvement.

A practical guide to writing evaluatively, helping leaders move beyond description to precise judgement. Introduces the Funnelling Approach and Janus lens to sharpen self-evaluation, strengthen evidence use and drive more effective improvement planning.

Schools are recruiting ECTs, but too many leave within five years, often due to workload. Drawing on DfE advisory work, this article explores how leaders can create the conditions through culture, mentoring and workload reform that enable early career teachers to stay and thrive.

What could Office for Students learn from Ofsted? Stronger use of first-hand evidence, clearer frameworks and sharper, more timely reporting to shift regulation from compliance toward meaningful improvement.