Learning from practice

Learn lessons from how other local authorities and partners have developed and implemented succession planning.

Evidence Into Practice Guides

A series of guides that share intelligence and insights into the leadership succession challenge facing schools. More guides will be published over the coming months as local strategy develops.

The following tool is to be used in conjunction with the What are we learning about... the school leadership labour market? guide.


Good practice guides

Working documents provided by local authorities who attended a supra regional conference in York on 4 June 2008. Of value to other colleagues both in the North and also across the country.


Local solutions for leadership succession: advice for
local areas

Lessons learned from the succession planning pilot activity between September 2006 and July 2007.


Greenhouse schools

This report provide school leaders with examples of practical strategies used by a selection of schools that have made growing tomorrow's leaders an integral and essential part of what they do.


Leadership succession: An overview

Advice to help you deal with the challenge of an increasingly short supply of headteachers.


Collaboration checklist

This tool provides a checklist describing the most important steps to take in establishing collaboration. Suggested agendas and schedules are included for illustrative purposes.


Widening the talent pool

This interactive guide looks at the experiences of women and of black and minority ethnic (BME) school leaders and considers new models of headship.


Dedicated headship time: exemplar policy

An exemplar policy for ensuring that headteachers have a reasonable workload and work-life balance.