Rachel Younger NAHT president‘We’re good at making efficiencies’NAHT, which currently has 49,000 members, was founded in 1897 and became the National Association of Head Teachers, from which its name derives, in 1906. For the last seven years she’s juggled her day job as business leader at St Nicholas Church of England Primary School, in Blackpool, with her NAHT roles. Because most of a school’s budget goes on staffing costs, that gets trimmed first when school leaders are expected to “make efficiencies”, as DfE calls it. When the union formed sector councils in 2013, she sat on its inaugural school business leader council, and became regional president in 2018. Today, Younger is “excited and humbled” about becoming NAHT president, and “ready” for the challenge.