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Leadership: Finding time for yourself

As a primary school leader you will face constant pressures, but making time for your wellbeing and to reflect is crucial. Julian Stanley advises

As we embark on a new calendar year and as winter’s cold, dark days continue, let us remind ourselves of the heartening recent findings on education in the latest British Social Attitudes Survey.

Commissioned by the Department for Education (DfE), the research has been carried out annually for the last 30 years. It is a reliable insight into what the British public thinks on a vast range of issues.

And as the general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, Geoff Barton, pointed out on seeing the latest findings, these results give anyone working in education “a fair bit to celebrate”.

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