National Professional Qualifications (NPQs): call for evidence

Closes 16 May 2025

Opened 27 Mar 2025

Contact

NPQFrameworks.EVIDENCE@education.gov.uk

Overview

We are seeking recent, relevant and high-quality research that may inform updates to the evidence-base underpinning 3 NPQ frameworks.  

This call for evidence is seeking research that may inform changes to the following frameworks only: Headship (NPQH), Senior Leadership (NPQSL) and Executive Leadership (NPQEL).

Please read and refer back to the guidance included at the bottom of this page when completing the survey to submit evidence. 

Why your views matter

This is an evidence gathering exercise. This call for evidence is one part of the process to formally review the NPQs, which aims to ensure they are based on the best available evidence and best-practice of teaching and leadership in education.  

Give us your views

Online Survey

Audiences

  • Teachers
  • Headteachers
  • Governors
  • Training providers
  • Local authorities
  • Adult education providers
  • Further education colleges
  • Sixth form colleges
  • Independent specialist colleges
  • Designated safeguarding leads
  • SENCOs
  • Educational Psychologists
  • School business managers
  • Governing bodies and academy trusts
  • Bodies representing schools and local authorities
  • Unions and representative organisations
  • Government bodies and departments
  • Those researching children’s social care or education systems, with links to educational outcomes of Children in Need
  • Academies (including free schools), voluntary aided schools, voluntary controlled schools, foundation schools and community schools
  • Universities
  • Higher Education leaders and workforce
  • Further Education leaders and workforce
  • Higher Education governing bodies

Interests

  • Education
  • Sufficiency
  • Academies
  • Admissions
  • Establishing maintained schools
  • Governance
  • Health and wellbeing
  • Intervention
  • Planning
  • Pupil data
  • Statutory policies and guidance
  • Travel to school and colleges
  • Keeping children safe in education and other settings
  • Preventing neglect, abuse and exploitation
  • Safeguarding disabled children
  • Social workers' standards
  • Alternative provision
  • Attendance and absence
  • Behaviour and discipline
  • Pay, conditions and pensions
  • Recruitment
  • Teachers' standards
  • Training and development
  • Capital funding
  • Financial management
  • Procurement for schools
  • School and academy funding
  • School funding reform
  • SEND code of practice
  • Teaching and learning (SEND)
  • Equality
  • Teacher assessment
  • Primary assessment
  • Accountability