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Take stock, rebuild bridges and tackle workload, Nicky Morgan told

School leaders call on returning education secretary Nicky Morgan to call a time-out from constant government-led reform, to rebuild bridges with the profession and to tackle workload. Pete Henshaw reports

Returning education secretary Nicky Morgan has been urged to "pause and take stock" as the Department for Education (DfE)opens for business once again after the General Election.

Russell Hobby, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, urged Ms Morgan to focus on winning back the support of the profession and to allow time for government reforms from the previous Parliament to be implemented.

The last five years has seen a number of educational reforms, including an overhaul of the national curriculum, sweeping changes to GCSEs and A levels, the removal of national curriculum levels, and the academies and free schools programme.

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