and those who practise it. Essays in leadership for changing times. 

Nineteen writers with a wealth of varied experience provide invaluable advice on the social and educational context in which we work; pastoral issues and the law; pastoral strategies, teams and tactics; pastoral care of younger children; the essentials of pastoral care in prep schools; the boarding houseparents; running a girls' house in a coeducational school; from housemaster to Headmaster; pastoral care of staff; developing people and developing yourself; nursing and pastoral care; head of the sixth form; the role of the chaplain; advising on the next stage: an important pastoral issue; caring for international boarders; pastoral issues in a world of global communication; dealing with challenging teenagers.

Edited by: Dr Nigel Richardson, Head of the Perse School, Cambridge from 1994-208 and Hilary Moriarty, National Director of The Boarding Schools’ Association