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Achievement for all: characteristics of effective inclusive leadership

Subject: Developing your leadership
Audience: Headteachers, Middle leaders and aspiring headteachers
Date of publication: August 2010   |   File format and size: PDF, 279 Kb

School leaders have a key role in promoting and implementing the Achievement for All (AfA) project in primary, secondary and special schools. Headteachers and senior leaders need to take collective responsibility for the leadership of inclusion across their schools.

This publication will help schools that are engaged in the AfA project to identify the strengths of their provision and their priorities for development and improvement. Ultimately, it is available to help you to make better provision for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), and to further improve their achievement and progress.

Understanding effective school leadership

Complementing and building on Achievement for All: Guidance for Schools (DCSF 2009c), the publication specifically seeks to raise awareness and develop understanding of the characteristics of effective school leadership.

It looks at:

  • what we know about school leadership
  • what we know about the leadership of SEND
  • elements of effective leadership of AfA
  • implications of the new Ofsted framework

It is not a definitive statement on effective inclusive leadership, but more a set of prompts for reflection, discussion and exploration in schools, which in turn may feed back into the development of leaders and leadership in children's services.