Increasing head teachers' pay to 150,000 to reflect extra responsibilities brought about by the Children Act, as suggested last week by the Secondary Heads Association, would make their salaries tens of thousands of pounds higher than most directors of children's services.
The call was perhaps made at the wrong time. It came days after an Ofsted report on managing challenging behaviour found fewer than half of schools had satisfactory partnership arrangements with health and social services (Children Now, 9-15 March 2005). On the other hand, the report's conclusion could suggest that joined-up working is a task too far for a workforce already under huge pressure.
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