Schools must publish their inclusion strategy by 31 December 2026. But the document is only part of the picture. When the same situation keeps returning to the same people, the attendance conversation that never quite moves forward, the transition that always needs the same adult, it is telling you something a written strategy alone cannot show. Is the support working, or are committed people making it look as though it is?

Inclusion plans fail in the gap between what a school intends and what learners and staff can reliably expect when the day goes wrong. What has to hold.

Repeated pressure is rarely just a people problem. Human-fit leadership looks beyond resilience training to redesign the systems, routines and pathways that create overwhelm, repeated escalation and lost capacity, helping people function better without asking them to keep absorbing what the system fails to hold.