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Welcome to AHDS

AHDS is a modern forward thinking union working for you. We are geared for the twenty-first century, but we have all the background knowledge and experience you would expect from a union that has represented school leaders for over 30 years.

AHDS is dedicated to school leaders – we are the only real option if you want your union to properly represent the perspective of heads, deputes and principal teachers from around Scotland.

With headlines galore about the impact of the recession on public finances it is clear that there are two key challenges ahead for this session and for some time to come:

• Increasingly tight budgets
• Full implementation of CfE

The combination of these factors promises to make the coming period particularly testing.  It is becoming clear that there will be a significant reduction in public sector budgets - some are suggesting that the public sector will need to contract by 20% in the next five to seven years.  This is not a problem created by education but education budgets will inevitably have to take their share of the squeeze.  As well as engaging at the national level to argue for protection of learning & teaching and to highlight that expectations will need to reduce in line with funding, AHDS aims to provide school leadership teams with advice and support to help navigate through these challenges. 

In addition, we are here to make sure the voice of school leaders is heard in all education policy debates. 

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Greg Dempster
AHDS General Secretary