Beyond Wiping NosesBuilding an informed approach to pastoral leadership:Sets out how pastoral care fits in as a crucial aspect of the function and purpose of schooling and shares practical insights on how schools can get it right. Within the current culture of interest in developing research informed approaches to teaching, the focus has inevitably been focused around pedagogy. However, with the well documented increase in pupil anxiety and mental ill health in recent times, there is also a pressing need for schools and