ASCL Leadership Podcast

April 2025

Emma Harrison, ASCL Business Leadership Specialist is joined by Kelly Potton, Advocate Director, Education Mutual, and Pam Burrows, People Booster to announce our new series of roadshows for business leaders which will be taking place in June 2025.

To find out more or book your place visit www.ascl.org.uk/business/roadshows

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Join our policy specialists, for our new series of short engaging and informative podcasts aimed at giving you a quick digest of key issues.

In this edition, Julie McCulloch, ASCL Senior Director of Strategy, Policy & Professional Development, focuses on the interim report from the Curriculum and Assessment Review.

In this edition, ASCL SEND and Inclusion Specialist Margaret Mulholland speaks with Philip Stock, Deputy Headteacher at Greenshaw High School and Director of Greenshaw research school and Amelie Thompson, Assistant Director of Education, SEND and Specialist Provision, Greenshaw Learning Trust about the value of adopting a graduated approach to support barriers to learning at classroom level and as a driver to whole school improvement.

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March 2025

Emma Harrison, ASCL Business Leadership Specialist and Julia Harnden, ASCL Funding Specialist are joined by Nigel Brunning, Chief Operating Officer, South East Essex Academy Trust and Gareth Edmonds, Chief Operating Financial Officer, Northern Education Trust to talk about treasury management.

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February 2025

Emma Harrison, ASCL Business Leadership Specialist talks to Paul Edmond, Chief Finance and Sustainability Officer, HEART Academies Trust and Co-chair of UK Schools Sustainability Network and Helen Burge, Consultant School Business Leader and Co-chair of UK Schools Sustainability Network about sustainability and climate change.

To book your place at ASCL's Conference for a Sustainable Future on 5 June, please visit www.ascl.org.uk/sustainability2025

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Join our policy specialists for our series of short, engaging and informative podcasts aimed at giving you a quick digest of key issues.

In this edition, Richard Bettsworth, ASCL Director of Public Relations, is joined by Julie McCulloch, ASCL Senior Director of Policy, Strategy and Professional Development, to talk about another measure in the Children's Wellbeing and Schools' Bill, namely a limit on branded school uniform items.

Join our policy specialists for our series of short, engaging and informative podcasts aimed at giving you a quick digest of key issues.

In this edition, Tiffnie Harris, ASCL Primary Specialist, summarises the plans and the problems for breakfast clubs in every primary school in England.

February 2025

Emma Harrison, ASCL Business Leadership Specialist talks to Scott Sivier, Business Manager from Havant Academy about men’s mental health.

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Join our policy specialists, for our new series of short engaging and informative podcasts aimed at giving you a quick digest of key issues.

The plans for report cards are the first subject that ASCL’s Director of Public Affairs Richard Bettsworth and ASCL’s Deputy Director of Policy Tom Middlehurst tackles.

In this edition, Emma Harrison, ASCL Business Leadership Specialist, discuss cyber crime with Dave Cobb, Business Manager, Saint Cecilia's Church of England School and Aston Smith, Headteacher, Charles Darwin, Biggin Hill.

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