Sarah Hannafin is Head of Policy (Practice and Research) at NAHT, the school leaders’ union, where her policy remit includes curriculum, statutory assessment and qualifications, pupil mental wellbeing and safeguarding. She leads the union’s work on RSHE; having campaigned strongly for statutory status of the subjects, the key foci are now protection, development and implementation.
Before joining NAHT in 2015, Sarah spent 18 years working in schools, starting as a learning support assistant before qualifying as a teacher of Religious Education. She spent eight years of her teaching career on the senior leadership team where her responsibilities included teaching, learning, pastoral support and safeguarding.