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Must we have a deputy headteacher?
It is not mandatory for you to appoint a deputy headteacher at your school. Read the requirements for covering headteacher absence, and find examples of schools without deputy headteachers.
Contents
- No specific requirement to have a deputy headteacher
- Schools without deputy headteachers: examples
- Deputising for the headteacher
- Adding 'phase leader' roles to primary staffing structures
- Administrative staff structures: secondary schools
- Administrative support in primary schools
- Central staffing structures in MATs
- Co-headship in schools: guidance
- Conducting a school staffing review
- Distributed leadership structures
- Leadership structures in 'outstanding' schools
- Leadership structures in primary schools
- Leadership structures in small primary schools
- Organising a cost-effective staffing structure
- Organising a cost-effective support staff structure
- Primary school staffing structures: examples
- Staffing structures: small secondary schools
- Staffing structures: special schools
- The SENCO as a strategic leader: guidance
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