Employment & conditions

Understand how to manage concerns from staff, parents/carers and governors about the headteacher’s conduct, and get tips on how to maintain a good relationship with your headteacher.

Understand your role in headteacher capability procedures. Be clear on what happens during the process, including during formal meetings also dismissals and appeals.

Know how to put together a panel and arrange and conduct a hearing as a chair or governance professional. If you're on a panel, find out what will happen during the hearing, and how to make your decision.

Get to grips with how much notice headteachers and heads of school must give in maintained schools and academies.

Exit interviews help improve staff retention by letting you find out why staff are leaving. Understand when governors and trustees should be involved. Download our template questionnaire to find out what questions to ask.

Understand what a strategic focus on wellbeing looks like, and how to use it to create a culture of wellbeing in your school or trust.

Find out how you can promote a healthy staff work-life balance without stepping on the toes of the day-to-day running of your school.

Get answers to your questions about strike action. Find out about the rights and responsibilities of staff in your school, and how your school should respond to industrial action.

Find out who your headteacher needs to inform about industrial action and school closures, and understand what your role is. Use our questions to ask your headteacher about talking to striking and non-striking staff.