Education matters to ASCL members - it should matter to politicians too

Amid the chaotic, morale-sapping, unseemly political turbulence of these past few weeks, I’ve been spending time out in the real world. It’s been like parole.

So, whilst Westminster has been spinning downwards in humiliating turmoil, here at ASCL we’ve stayed well away. Instead, I’ve been pleased to be on the road with other members of the ASCL policy and member support team, plus our Presidential Trio, and – like some bunch of groovy rockers – we’ve been turning up in different UK venues as part of ASCL’s series of Autumn Leadership Conferences.

And there’s been something incredibly, genuinely grounding about it. Because whilst as delegates you come to these conferences to listen to us, we come to them to listen to you.