Partnership board members
The strategy is overseen by the School Partnership Board whose members include:
- Clare Kershaw - Director of Education
- Nicola Woolf - Assistant Director of Education, West Essex and School Partnership Board chair
- Alex Abercrombie - SEND Strategy Lead
- Stephen Chynoweth, Head of Education and Early Years, North East Essex
- Carrie Prior - Church of England representative
- Maria Shepherd - Catholic Church representative
- Dida Burrell - Mid-quadrant meeting chair
- Nicky Patrick - North East quadrant meeting co-chair
- Kerry Malcolm - North East quadrant meeting co-chair
- Katherine Parker - South quadrant meeting co-chair
- Heidi Blakeley - South quadrant meeting co-chair
- Colin Raraty - West quadrant meeting chair
- Carole Herman - Association of Secondary Headteachers in Essex (ASHE)
- Pam Langmead - Essex Primary Headteachers' Association (EPHA)
- Emily Welton - Essex Special Schools Education Trust (ESSET)
- Ruth Bird - Essex School Governance Association (ESGA) chair
- Jo Coton - Academy Trust representative
- Rod Lane - Primary governor
- Janet Wood - Secondary school governor
Chairs and co-chairs
The quadrant chair and co-chairs lead meetings each term with partnership leads and Teaching School Hub representatives to:
- support and encourage school engagement in partnership working
- advise and support partnership development and maturity
- facilitate sharing of best practices between quadrant partnerships
- support partnership sustainability and impact within quadrants
- ensure partnership take up and best use of support within quadrants
- set and track quadrant progress against key priorities reflecting county-wide priorities
The chairs and co-chairs of these meetings are:
- Dida Burrell - Chair of Mid quadrant meeting
- Kerry Malcolm - Co-Chair of North-East quadrant meeting
- Nicky Patrick - Co-Chair of North-East quadrant meeting
- Heidi Blakeley - Co-Chair of South quadrant meeting
- Katherine Parker - Co-Chair of South quadrant meeting
- Colin Raraty - Chair of West quadrant meeting