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Leadership wellbeing: It’s good to talk

With huge pressure on today’s school leaders, Julian Stanley from the charity Education Support Partnership discusses two of their programmes offering wellbeing and mental health support

Firefighting has always come with the territory for headteachers but in the current climate, it may feel for many experienced leaders that it has reached new heights.

With budgets stretched to breaking point and workloads at an all-time high, school leaders need practical strategies to remain at their best and they need to be at their best in order to adequately support and enable their staff to manage their own wellbeing and workloads.

More than ever before, heads need time and space to sustain their own resilience and wellbeing. It is essential to the foundations of our education system, now and for the future.

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