The Teaching Leaders charity exists to support and develop middle leaders in schools working in challenging circumstances across England and is expanding its role in primary schools. James Toop explains more about the programme

This year has been one of significant change for primary schools with new progress and accountability measures as well as new assessments.

As headteachers are increasingly required to “step up” to take on a greater system leadership role, spending more time out of their own school, there is also a greater demand on primary middle leaders to “step up”, taking on more responsibility for sustaining good outcomes, developing staff and managing performance both within their own context and increasingly across a number of schools.

This need is all the more acute in schools in challenging contexts where there is often an additional challenge around the supply, recruitment and retention of teachers and leaders.

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