BFET EXECUTIVE TEAM

DECLARATION OF INTERESTS

Executive Team

/ Current
Employment / Appointments / Membership of Professional Bodies
Ms Deeba Akram-Saleem
Speech & Language Therapist / Central Manchester Foundation Trust (CMFT) (working on a Service Level Agreement with the Bright Futures Educational Trust) /
  • Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists
  • Health Professions Council
  • Association of Speech & Language Therapists In Independent Practice
  • Unite (Union)
  • Treasurer for the North (previously West Yorkshire) Special Interest Group for Speech and Language Therapists working with Bilingual children with language difficulties

Ms Elizabeth Allen
Consultant / Consultant, Bright Futures Educational Trust. Education Consultant 1st January – 31st December 2015
Academic Consultant, the Prince’s Teaching Institute October 2014 – September 2015 /
  • Trusteeships: national association for Able Children in education (NACE)
  • Directorships: Engineering Development Trust (EDT)
Inspiring Futures Foundation
Newstead Wood School
  • Membership of Professional bodies: Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA)

Ms Jennifer Andrews
Education Consultant / Bright Futures Educational Trust / School Governance:
  • Chair of IEB (Newall Green High School – April 2014 to date, will end on conversion to an academy)
  • Chair School Improvement Board (Salford City Academy – United Learning – May 2014 to date)
  • Governor at Willam Hulme academy (UL, five+ years)
  • Governor at Manchester Federation of Schools for Social, Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties (September 2014)
  • Trustee Piper Hill Learning Trust (March 2015)

Ms Lynette Jane Beckett
Head of Human Resources / Bright Futures Educational Trust / Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)
Mr Gary Handforth
Executive Principal/Director of Education / Bright Futures Educational Trust /
  • Senior Partner – Challenge Partners
  • Future Leaders (Leadership Development Advisor)
  • Manchester Schools Alliance (Reference Group Member)
  • Prince’s Teaching institute (Advisor for Primary Leadership development)
  • Membership of Professional Bodies: National Association of Headteachers

Mr Des McIvor
Head of IT / Bright Futures Educational Trust / None
Ms Judith O’Kane
Director of Education, Executive Principal Melland High School / Bright Futures Educational Trust / NAHT
Mr Adam Rumble
Child and Educational Psychologist / Bright Futures Educational Trust /
  • British Psychological Society (BPS) – started 2006
  • BPS Division of Child and Educational Psychology – Started 2008
  • Association of Educational Psychologists – started 2011
  • Health and Care Professionals Council – started 2014
  • National Autistic Society – started 2015

Ms Sue Sormaz / Bright Futures Educational Trust /
  • None

Mr George Liam Thomas
Trainee Educational Psychologist – 4 days per week within BFET with 1 day per week assigned to the university of Manchester for the purpose of completing my Doctorate in educational and Child Psychology, which I am due to complete around 20/4/2015 / Bright Futures Educational Trust /
  • Since Summer 2014, I have also worked as an examiner for AQA (given my previous role as an A-level Psychology teacher) and marked the PSYA1 exam (Psychology AS-level, unit 1, AQA A specification) in summer 2015.
  • Trainee member of the Association of Educational Psychologists, transferring to full membership upon my qualification

Ms Audrey Whelan
Finance Manager / Bright Futures Educational Trust / None
Ms Katherine Winward
Trainee Educational Psychologist / Bright Futures Educational Trust / None