The best leadership in schools focuses on improving teaching and learning with headteachers seeing this as their core business. Common characteristics of the best leadership include honest self-evaluation and leadership shared across the school. This is the conclusion of an Ofsted inspection.

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Organisations with a sense of shared purpose outperform those with no sense of shared purpose. This is the conclusion from a survey of more than 2000 employees commissioned by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

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This report from the Department for Work and Pensions sets out an approach to measuring attitudes to age and quantifying the experiences of ageism in Britain. It provides a framework for assessing attitudes to age which can be used in any measurement exercise.

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