LANCASHIRE headteachers are willing to help more than one school, a new poll has found.

A survey of nearly 400 heads and deputies - including some from Lancashire - by the National College for School Leadership (NCSL) discovered 88 per cent (340) of those quizzed said they would be willing to offer leadership support to other schools at the same time as their own.

Steve Munby, chief executive of NCSL, said: "It's great to see that so many school leaders want to contribute to the development of the wider education system as well as to the development of their own schools."