Regional School Commissioners

(asked on 3rd December 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, who the Regional School Commissioners are; how many schools are located in each of the regions for which they are responsible; and how many schools in their area each commissioner has not visited since taking up that role.


Answered by
Edward Timpson Portrait
Edward Timpson
This question was answered on 9th December 2015

There are eight Regional Schools Commissioners. Profiles on each commissioner are published online: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/schools-commissioners-group/about/our-governance.


Regional Schools Commissioners have responsibility for a region. The commissioners are: Sir David Carter (South West England); Dominic Herrington (South England and South East London); Martin Post (South Central England and North West London); Dr Tim Coulson (East of England and North East London); Pank Patel (West Midlands); Jennifer Bexon-Smith (East Midlands and the Humber); Victoria Beer (Lancashire and West Yorkshire); and Janet Renou (North of England).


The number of schools in each region is listed in the table below. This number is the number of free schools, studio schools, University Technical Colleges, academies and local authority maintained schools.

Region

Number of schools

South West England

2331

South England and South East London

3297

South Central England and North West London

2982

East of England and North East London

2376

West Midlands

2671

East Midlands and the Humber

2667

Lancashire and West Yorkshire

3389

North of England

1816


We do not hold data on the number of schools in each region which have not been visited by the Regional Schools Commissioner. Regional Schools Commissioners are responsible for approving new academies, intervening in underperforming academies and free schools in their area, and matching underperforming maintained schools with a strong academy sponsor.

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