Safer recruitment includes accurate record keeping on a single central register (SCR) and the ability to accurately cross reference against recruitment files. Peter Senge's model helps us focus on its importance; the five disciplines highlight that SCR checking benefits from personal mastery through careful attention to detail, mental models through questioning assumptions, a shared vision around safeguarding, team learning through collaborative checking, and systems thinking

As simple as water. You might be focused on school improvement and the bigger picture, but have you taken time to reflect; have you stopped and noticed what is happening in your school or have you washed your hands of the small, everyday details. School improvement is about noticing what is in front of you, and acting on it. Coaching can help with change management. A frog hops out of boiling water, but the parable tells us that the frog adapts to gradual change and enjoys h

Should there be more of a coaching culture in schools. Simon Sinek advises us to start with the why. Should there be more coaching as it...