Lack of professional recognition and trust, unsustainable workload, high stakes
Inspection, and falling real pay, are driving leadership attrition and undermining aspiration to lead. These pressures exacerbate the existing lack of diversity across leadership roles and the challenges faced by leaders and aspiring leaders with certain protected characteristics.
To improve leadership supply, NAHT is campaigning for government to:
- restore leaders’ real pay, restore the leadership pay differential; and pressing for an STRB remit to consult with trade unions to devise a new professional pay structure to support all teachers and leaders throughout their careers
- restore trust by empowering school leaders to make the decisions that best meet their learners’ needs, free from centralised diktat and control
- reform inspection and accountability measures to remove drivers of unnecessary workload, fear and stress
- commit to full and meaningful engagement, consultation and collaboration with the profession’s representative bodies when developing policy
- value school leaders and teachers by removing the drivers of the mental health and well-being crisis, and providing accessible, fully funded support (including the delivery of supervision and measures to increase diversity in leadership).
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