ASCL Leadership Podcast

In our series of Associates podcasts, ASCL Professional Leadership Communities Manager Sharon Ealing talks with ASCL Associates and Professional Associates— former heads, business leaders, CEOs and other senior leaders — about life beyond school and college leadership. In this two-part conversation, Sharon Ealing talks with ASCL Professional Associate Steve Playford about life after headship. In t...

In our series of Associates podcasts, ASCL Professional Leadership Communities Manager Sharon Ealing talks with ASCL Associates and Professional Associates— former heads, business leaders, CEOs and other senior leaders — about life beyond school and college leadership. In this two-part conversation, Sharon Ealing talks with ASCL Professional Associate Steve Playford about life after headship. In t...

ASCL Independent Sector Specialist Neil Smith considers how viable and desirable formalising relationships between independent schools and MATs might be. www.ascl.org.uk/PolicySnapshots

Emma Harrison, ASCL Business Leadership Specialist talks to James Browning, COO of Lift Schools about AI and all things digital. www.ascl.org.uk/podcasts/brunch

Emma Harrison, ASCL Business Leadership Specialist talks to Heena Dave, Co-founder, Climate Adapted Pathways for Education (CAPE) and Paul Edmond, Chief Financial Officer, Heart Academies Trust about sustainability and climate change. www.ascl.org.uk/podcasts/brunch

December 2025 Emma Harrison, ASCL Business Leadership Specialist talks to Melanie Moffatt, ASCL Pensions Specialist to discuss all things pension related. www.ascl.org.uk/podcasts/brunch

September 2025 Emma Harrison, ASCL Business Leadership Specialist talks to Tiff Harris, ASCL Primary and Data specialist and Rob Gould from Barker, to discuss the latest round of school-based nursery application phases. www.ascl.org.uk/podcasts/brunch

In this edition, ASCL SEND and Inclusion Specialist Margaret Mulholland speaks with Elizabeth Harris, Headteacher at Monega Primary School and Katie Ives,SENCO, Monega Primary School about the work done over the last few years to improve and strengthen inclusive teaching and learning in their schools. www.ascl.org.uk/podcasts/send

September 2025 Emma Harrison, ASCL Business Leadership Specialist talks to Emma Searl, Chief Finance Officer at The New Guild Trust who won the National SBL of the Year at the School Business Services awards. www.ascl.org.uk/podcasts/brunch

April 2025 Emma Harrison, ASCL Business Leadership Specialist is joined by Kelly Potton, Advocate Director, Education Mutual, and Pam Burrows, People Booster to announce our new series of roadshows for business leaders which will be taking place in June 2025. To find out more or book your place visit www.ascl.org.uk/business/roadshows www.ascl.org.uk/podcasts/brunch

Join our policy specialists, for our new series of short engaging and informative podcasts aimed at giving you a quick digest of key issues. In this edition, Julie McCulloch, ASCL Senior Director of Strategy, Policy & Professional Development, focuses on the interim report from the Curriculum and Assessment Review.

In this edition, ASCL SEND and Inclusion Specialist Margaret Mulholland speaks with Philip Stock, Deputy Headteacher at Greenshaw High School and Director of Greenshaw research school and Amelie Thompson, Assistant Director of Education, SEND and Specialist Provision, Greenshaw Learning Trust about the value of adopting a graduated approach to support barriers to learning at classroom level and as...

February 2025 Emma Harrison, ASCL Business Leadership Specialist talks to Paul Edmond, Chief Finance and Sustainability Officer, HEART Academies Trust and Co-chair of UK Schools Sustainability Network and Helen Burge, Consultant School Business Leader and Co-chair of UK Schools Sustainability Network about sustainability and climate change. To book your place at ASCL's Conference for a Sustainable...

March 2025 Emma Harrison, ASCL Business Leadership Specialist and Julia Harnden, ASCL Funding Specialist are joined by Nigel Brunning, Chief Operating Officer, South East Essex Academy Trust and Gareth Edmonds, Chief Operating Financial Officer, Northern Education Trust to talk about treasury management. www.ascl.org.uk/podcasts/brunch

Join our policy specialists for our series of short, engaging and informative podcasts aimed at giving you a quick digest of key issues. In this edition, Richard Bettsworth, ASCL Director of Public Relations, is joined by Julie McCulloch, ASCL Senior Director of Policy, Strategy and Professional Development, to talk about another measure in the Children's Wellbeing and Schools' Bill, namely a limi...

Join our policy specialists for our series of short, engaging and informative podcasts aimed at giving you a quick digest of key issues. In this edition, Tiffnie Harris, ASCL Primary Specialist, summarises the plans and the problems for breakfast clubs in every primary school in England.

February 2025 Emma Harrison, ASCL Business Leadership Specialist talks to Scott Sivier, Business Manager from Havant Academy about men’s mental health. www.ascl.org.uk/podcasts/brunch

Join our policy specialists, for our new series of short engaging and informative podcasts aimed at giving you a quick digest of key issues. The plans for report cards are the first subject that ASCL’s Director of Public Affairs Richard Bettsworth and ASCL’s Deputy Director of Policy Tom Middlehurst tackles.

In this edition, Emma Harrison, ASCL Business Leadership Specialist, discuss cyber crime with Dave Cobb, Business Manager, Saint Cecilia's Church of England School and Aston Smith, Headteacher, Charles Darwin, Biggin Hill. www.ascl.org.uk/podcasts/brunch

Listen to our policy specialists as they give a brief outline of what to expect at the upcoming Autumn Leadership Conference 2024 October-November 2024 Book your place now www.ascl.org.uk/alc

In this edition, Emma Harrison, ASCL Business Leadership Specialist, and Louise Hatswell, ASCL Conditions of Employment Specialist: Pay, discuss flexible working in the education sector for all staff with Antonia Spinks, CEO, Pioneer Educational Trust.

Richard Bettsworth, ASCL Director of PR, and Julie McCulloch, ASCL Director of Policy, discuss the pre-election debate, ASCL's General Election campaign for education, and how school and college leaders can get involved via the hashtag #EducationMatters www.ascl.org.uk/manifesto

Julie McCulloch, ASCL Director of Policy and Richard Bettsworth, ASCL Director of PR, discuss what the political parties are saying on education. www.ascl.org.uk/manifesto | #educationmatters

In this edition, ASCL SEND and Inclusion Specialist Margaret Mulholland speaks with Soofia Amin, Assistant Headteacher, Kensington Primary School and John Claughton, Retired Headmaster, King Edward’s School Birmingham and Co-founder of WoLLoW about languages and highlighting the fundamental opportunities that school leaders face around inclusion, as well as celebrating young people and their poten...

In this edition, Emma Harrison, ASCL Business Leadership Specialist, and Julia Harnden, ASCL Funding Specialist, discuss PFI contract in schools with Cheryl Campbell from Thomas Tallis School and Sian Turner from The Co-operative Academies Trust.