Guidance

Department for Education non-executive appointments

Information about non-executive appointments to the Department for Education’s public bodies.

From:
Department for Education
Published
1 May 2018
Last updated
11 November 2024 — See all updates

Applies to England

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Appointments made: April 2024 to March 2025

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Appointments made: April 2023 to March 2024

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Appointments made: April 2022 to March 2023

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Appointments made: April 2021 to March 2022

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Appointments made: April 2020 to March 2021

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Appointments made: April 2019 to March 2020

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Appointments made: April 2018 to March 2019

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Details

The details provided include the start dates, end dates or duration of appointments, their time commitment and remuneration, and any political activity and other interests declared by appointees.

A public appointment is generally a ministerial appointment to the board of a public body or advisory committee. The appointments and reappointments listed are made by the Secretary of State for Education, unless stated otherwise.

Public bodies across the UK deliver important and essential public services. This includes large public bodies overseen by boards of directors, and small advisory committees made up of lay members, experts and specialists.

An appointee to the board of a public body will often be involved in:

  • providing direction and leadership – this includes setting the organisation’s strategy, agreeing business plans to deliver the strategy and recruiting key staff
  • holding senior staff to account – this includes holding managers to account on how the body is managed, its business plans are delivered and its budget is spent
  • representing the work and views of the body – this might be to ministers, parliamentarians, key stakeholders and the wider public

Those appointed to advisory bodies provide independent expert advice to government departments and ministers on specific issues.

A public appointment could give you a chance to:

  • give something back and contribute your expertise to help the community and influence decisions that affect everyone’s lives
  • return from a career break
  • meet people from all walks of life who also want to make a difference
  • develop your career, gain board experience and improve your skills

Public appointments are made in accordance with the Cabinet Office Governance Code for Public Appointments. Regulation is carried out by the Commissioner for Public Appointments. All appointments are made on merit and political activity plays no part in the decision-making process.

For further information on non-executive appointments, email PublicAppointments.DFE@education.gov.uk.

The Department for Education’s public bodies include:

  • Adoption Special Guardianship Leadership Board
  • Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel
  • Children’s Commissioner for England
  • Construction Industry Training Board
  • Engineering Construction Industry Training Board
  • Film Industry Training Board
  • Further Education Commissioner’s Office
  • His Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education, Children’s Services and Skills
  • Independent Assessors for Student Finance, Appeals and Complaints
  • Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education
  • LocatED
  • Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills
  • Office for Students
  • Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation
  • School Teachers’ Review Body
  • Social Mobility Commission
  • Social Work England
  • Student Loans Company Ltd

Updates to this page

Published 1 May 2018
Last updated 11 November 2024 + show all updates

  1. Added additional 'Student Loans Company: non-executive board member' to 'Appointments made: April 2024 to March 2025'.

  2. Added, 'Student Loans Company: non-executive board members' to 'Appointments made: April 2024 to March 2025'.

  3. Added, 'Social Work England: chair ' and 'Social Work England: non-executive directors' to 'Appointments made: April 2024 to March 2025'.

  4. Added, 'Student Loan Company: Independent Assessors' to September 2024 of 'Appointments made: April 2024 to March 2025'.

  5. Added School Teachers’ Review Body: chair and members to 'Appointments made: April 2024 to March 2025'.

  6. Added Office for Students: interim chair appointment to 'Appointments made: April 2024 to March 2025'.

  7. Added 'Department for Education: non-executive board member' to 'Appointments made: April 2024 to March 2025'.

  8. Added 'Social Work England: Chair' to 'Appointments made: April 2024 to March 2025'.

  9. Added board member reappointment of Construction Industry Training Board.

  10. Two board members of the Engineering Construction Industry Training Board have been reappointed. We have updated 'Appointments made: April 2024 to March 2025'.

  11. Updated with the extension of 4 Student Loans Company Independent Assessors.

  12. Added appointment of Lauren Costello to 'Appointments made: April 2024 to March 2025'.

  13. Added 'LocatED: board members' to 'Appointments made: April 2024 to March 2025'.

  14. Added 'Construction Industry Training Board (CITB): board members' to 'Appointments made: April 2024 to March 2025'.

  15. Updated 'Appointments made: April 2023 to March 2024' with the appointment of interim Chair of the Board for Social Work England.

  16. Added "Social Work England – non-executive director appointment" section to Appointments made: April 2023 to March 2024 html attachment.

  17. Updated 'Appointments made: April 2023 to March 2024' with the appointment of Alison Steele and Ian Critchley as panel members for the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel.

  18. Updated 'Appointments made: April 2023 to March 2024' with the appointment of Mark Prisk as Chair of LocatED.

  19. Added the appointments of Andrew Colquhoun, Helen Higgs, Mark Fotheringham, Mark Riley, Paul de Leeuw and Richard Law as board members on the Engineering Construction Industry Training Board (ECITB) to 'Appointments made: April 2023 to March 2024'.

  20. Updated 'Appointments made: April 2023 to March 2024' with the appointment of Sir Ian Bauckham CBE as interim Chief Regulator of Ofqual and Frances Wadsworth CBE as interim Chair of Ofqual.

  21. Updated 'Appointments made: April 2023 to March 2024' with the appointment of Mark McClennon and Jane Hadfield as board members for the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education.

  22. Updated 'Appointments made: April 2023 to March 2024' with the appointment of Gary Page as a board member for the Student Loans Company.

  23. Updated 'Appointments made: April 2023 to March 2024' with the appointment of Sir Martyn Oliver as His Majesty’s Chief Inspector for Education, Children’s Services and Skills.

  24. Updated 'Appointments made: April 2023 to March 2024' with the reappointment of Shelagh Legrave as Further Education Commissioner.

  25. Updated 'Appointments made: April 2023 to March 2024' with the reappointment of Verity Hancock and Simon Levine to the board of the Office for Students as non-executive directors.

  26. Updated 'Appointments made: April 2023 to March 2024' with the appointment of Phil Cook, Nigel Duncan and Becky Lazzarato Edwards as Deputy FE Commissioners. The current commissioners have had their terms of appointment extended until 31 December 2023.

  27. Updated 'Appointments made: April 2023 to March 2024' with the reappointment of Annie Hudson as Chair of Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel, the reappointment of Jenny Coles and Simon Bailey as panel members of Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel, and the extension of Shelagh Legrave's term as Further Education Commissioner.

  28. Added the reappointments of Malcolm Press, Jessica Leigh Jones and John Cope as iFATE board members to 'Appointments made: April 2023 to March 2024'.

  29. Added Dr Catherine McClellan’s reappointment as an Ofqual board member.

  30. Added the details of those reappointed to the Ofsted board between April 2023 and March 2024.

  31. Added reappointment of Frances Wadsworth as Deputy Further Education Commissioner.

  32. Added the appointments of Michael Strong as chair and Philip Ellis as a board member at LocatED to 'Appointments made: April 2023 to March 2024'.

  33. Added the appointments of Peter Lauener as non-executive chair of the Student Loans Company board and Natasha Toothill as a Student Loans Company board member to ‘Appointments made: April 2022 to March 2023’.

  34. Added the appointment of Andrew McCulloch as Social Work England's interim chair to ‘Appointments made: April 2022 to March 2023’.

  35. Added the appointment of Holly Price as a Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) board member to ‘Appointments made: April 2022 to March 2023’.

  36. Added the appointment of Caleb Stevens as an Office for Students board member to ‘Appointments made: April 2022 to March 2023’.

  37. Added information about the extension of Martha Longdon’s appointment as board member for the Office for Students to 'Appointments made: April 2022 to March 2023'.

  38. Added section 'December 2022' to 'Appointments made: April 2022 to March 2023' to include details of new appointments.

  39. 'Appointments made: April 2021 to March 2022': 'March 2022' entry updated to reflect a change of end date for Dr Michael Spence and the appointment of Sir Martyn Oliver as a non-executive director of the OfS.

  40. Added 'Ofsted: board members' under August 2022 to reflect new appointments.

  41. Added the appointments of Louisa Finlay, Owain Jones and Michael Green as board members of the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) to 'Appointments made: April 2022 to March 2023'.

  42. Added information about the extension of Lynn Lawrence’s appointment as board member for the School Teacher’s Review Body (STRB) to 'Appointments made: April 2022 to March 2023'.

  43. Added Student Loans Company reappointment announcement for July 2022.

  44. Updated 'Appointments made: April 2022 to March 2023' with the appointment of Sally Shearer to the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel.

  45. Updated 'Appointments made: April 2022 to March 2023' with latest Ofqual board member appointments.

  46. Added the re-appointment of Martin Post as a board member on the STRB to the page ‘Appointments made: April 2022 to March 2023’.

  47. Added the reappointment of Kevin McLoughlin as a Board Member of the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) to the page ‘Appointments made: April 2022 to March 2023’.

  48. Added the extension of Charlotte Moar and Stephen Tetlow’s terms as Student Loan Company board members to the page ‘Appointments made: April 2022 to March 2023’.

  49. Added the reappointment of Engineering Construction Industry Training Board board members to 'Appointments made: April 2022 to March 2023'.

  50. Updated 'Office for Students: non-executive board member reappointments and appointments' section of 'Appointments made: April 2021 to March 2022'.

  51. Added Peter Lauener's reappointment as Chair of the Construction Industry Training Board to 'Appointments made: April 2022 to March 2023'.

  52. Added Hamid Patel CBE and Carole Stott MBE's reappointment as Ofsted board members to 'Appointments made: April 2022 to March 2023'.

  53. Added Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education board members appointments to 'Appointments made: April 2021 to March 2022'.

  54. Added Office for Students: non-executive board member appointments and reappointments to 'Appointments made: April 2021 to March 2022'.

  55. Updated 'Appointments made: April 2021 to March 2022' to include Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education board member appointments.

  56. Updated 'Appointments made: April 2021 to March 2022' to include Ofqual board members term extension.

  57. Added information about December 2021 updates to panellists of the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel.

  58. Added 'Further Education Commissioner: deputy commissioners' appointments.

  59. Added reappointment of Ann Harris as board member for Social Work England.

  60. Added appointment of Ian Bauckham as chair of Ofqual.

  61. Added reappointment of Elizabeth Fagan to the board of the Office for Students as an ordinary member.

  62. Updated 'Appointments made: April 2021 to March 2022' with the latest appointment to the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel.

  63. Updated 'Appointments made: April 2021 to March 2022' with the latest appointments to the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel.

  64. Amended the latest 'Social Work England: board members' appointment update.

  65. Updated 'Appointments made: April 2021 to March 2022' with latest Social Work England board member appointments.

  66. Added the appointment of Dr Jo Saxton as Chief Regulator of the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual). She will serve from 18 September 2021 for a period of 5 years.

  67. Added reappointment of Martha Longdon to the board of the Office for Students (OfS) as a 'student experience' board member for 15 months from 1 October 2021 to 31 December 2022.

  68. Added a term extension announcement for deputy commissioners Frances Wadsworth, Meredydd David, Martin Sim, Andrew Tyley and Steve Hutchinson until 31 December 2021.

  69. Updated December 2020, Adoption and Special Guardianship Leadership Board: Chair appointment details. From the 19 July 2021 the time commitment increased from 40 days to 60 days per year.

  70. Added appointment of Baroness Ruby McGregor-Smith CBE as Chair of the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education board.

  71. Added an announcement on appointments and reappointments of student finance appeals and complaints independent assessors.

  72. Added appointments and reappointments for School Teachers’ Review Body to 'Appointments made: April 2021 to March 2022'.

  73. Added the reappointment of Lynda Armstrong as Chair of the Engineering Construction Industry Training Board.

  74. Updated the remuneration for Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector Amanda Spielman in the May 2021 reappointment announcment.

  75. Added reappointment announcement for Child Safeguarding Practice Review panel members.

  76. Added an announcement about the reappointment of Amanda Spielman, the Chief Inspector of Ofsted.

  77. Added an announcement on reappointments of student finance appeals and complaints independent assessors.

  78. Added an announcement on reappointments to the Social Work England board.

  79. Added the reappointment of LocatED Chair to 'Appointments made: April 2021 to March 2022'.

  80. Added FE commissioner and interim FE commissioner appointments in 'Appointments made: April 2021 to March 2022'.

  81. Added Ofqual board members updates for Delroy Beverley, Lesley Davies and Ian Bauckham to March 2021.

  82. Added the reappointment of LocatED Board Members Philip Ellis, Julian Rudd-Jones and Caroline Tolhurst to to 'Appointments made: April 2020 to March 2021'.

  83. Added the appointment Lord Wharton of Yarm, James Wharton, as Chair of the Office for Students.

  84. Added appointment of Krish Kandiah as Chair of the Adoption and Special Guardianship Leadership Board

  85. Added Pamela Scriven's extended term on the Board of Ofsted to 'Appointments made: April 2020 to March 2021'.

  86. Added the appointment of Nigel Duncan as interim Deputy FE Commissioner.

  87. Removed a line from the interests list of Ofqual Interim Chair Ian Bauckham.

  88. Added December 2020 appointments to the Student Loans Company board.

  89. Added announcement about the appointment of Rachel de Souza as Children’s Commissioner for England to 'Appointments made: April 2020 to March 2021'.

  90. Added the appointment of Ian Bauckham as Interim Chair of the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual) to 'Appointments made: April 2020 to March 2021'.

  91. Added the appointment of Lord Patel of Bradford as Chair of Social Work England.

  92. Added appointment for Annie Hudson as Chair of the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel.

  93. Added October 2020 appointments to the Student Loans Company board.

  94. Added appointments information for October 2020.

  95. Added announcement about the reappointment of non-executive board members for the Office for Students.

  96. Added the extension of the Further Education Commissioner appointment to 'Appointments made: April 2020 to March 2021'.

  97. Added announcement about the Social Mobility Commission interim chairs.

  98. Added announcement about the appointment of a new Chair of Ofsted.

  99. Added July 2020 announcement of 'Ofqual: board members' appointments and reappointments.

  100. Added Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) appointment information for June 2020.

  101. Added announcement of Chris Claypole's reappointment as trustee of the Engineering Construction Industry Training Board (ECITB) to 'Appointments made: April 2020 to March 2021'.

  102. Added LocatEd chair and board member appointment information.

  103. Added the extension of 5 Deputy Further Education Commissioner appointments.

  104. Added LocatEd chair and board member appointment information.

  105. Added Ofqual board member appointment information.

  106. Added School Teachers’ Review Body chair and board members appointment information.

  107. Added information about ECITB trustees appointments to April 2020 to March 2021.

  108. Added appointment of Karen Manners as interim chair of the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel.

  109. Added appointment of Peter Lauener to chair of the Student Loans Company.

  110. Added announcement about Professor Julius Weinberg’s extension as chair of Ofsted.

  111. Updated list of Department for Education’s public bodies.

  112. Added the 'Student Loans Company: Interim Chair' appointment.

  113. Added Further Education Commissioner appointment.

  114. Updated appointments for November 2019.

  115. Added Ofqual board member appointment.

  116. Added July 2019 appointments for Ofqual board members and chair, Oftsed board membership, the School Teachers' Review Body and Social Work England.

  117. Added information about changes to the role of chair for the Social Mobility Commission.

  118. Updated appointments for May 2019.

  119. Updated appointments for February 2019.

  120. Added appointments for April 2019 to March 2020.

  121. Updated appointments for January and February 2019.

  122. Updated appointments for January 2019.

  123. Added appointments for January 2019.

  124. Added appointments for November 2018.

  125. Added appointments for October 2018.

  126. Added September 2018 appointments of independent assessors for student loans complaints and appeals.

  127. Added 'Social Work England: board members' announcement.

  128. Added Martha Longdon, Office for Students 'student experience' board member.

  129. Added 'Office for Students: Independent Statutory Reviewer' announcement.

  130. Added the 'Appointments to the School Teachers’ Review Body' to September 2018.

  131. Announced the appointment of new members to the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel.

  132. Added 'Office for Students: Interim Statutory Reviewer on Access and Participation Plans' announcement.

  133. Announced new Chair of the Social Mobility Commission.

  134. Added information about the extension of the Interim Student Experience Board member role for the Office for Students.

  135. Added information about the Chair of the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel.

  136. Announced the appointment of new members to the Institute for Apprenticeships board.

  137. First published.

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