Leadership jobs in challenging schools in remote and deprived areas serving deprived pupils are most difficult to fill,report saysSchools in England are struggling to recruit headteachers, with posts in deprived areas particularly hard to fill and attitudes towards headship roles growing increasingly negative, and according to a report. While there are fewer applications for headships across the country,leadership jobs in challenging schools in remote and deprived areas serving deprived pupils are the most difficult to fill.
Some schools looking for recent heads have to advertise repeatedly in order to fill the posts. High levels of stress and workload associated with school accountability measures are among the reasons why posts are hard to fill, while taking on a challenging school with a destitute Ofsted rating is seen as a career risk.
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Source: theguardian.com