WILLIAM_ALLITT - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Retired Environmental Physics Researcher
Alan Jones is a retired environmental physics researcher who lives in Midway. He came to South Derbyshire 40 years ago to work in the coal industry investigating workplace dust and noise. More recently he has worked at the University of Birmingham analysing and reviewing data on air pollution from vehicles and incinerators, and on bio-aerosols. Between 1989 and 2009 he was a member of Derbyshire County Council.
Ian lives locally and is Company Secretary of Sharpe's Pottery Heritage and Arts Trust and Vice Chair of ‘Swad in Bloom'. Ian is also Director of ‘Learning for Leadership Cymru' (since 2014), lead tutor on the Welsh Leadership Academy and an advisor to the Welsh Local Government Association and previously to the LGA (on leadership and community engagement) and Welsh Government (on the community use of school buildings, local government governance and safeguarding). Ian was a County Councillor in Warwickshire from 1980-2005, Chair of the Education Committee (1985-89) and Leader of the County Council from 1993 until 2005. Ian was previously a teacher, Pastoral Head and then Head of Faculty in a large inner city comprehensive school (from 1972-2000) and Operations Manager then Director of Operations for a nationwide Community Education Charity (2000-2014). Ian has a B.ED Hons in Education, Sociology and Geography from Nottingham University (1972).
Job Titles:
- Deputy CEO at South Staffordshire College
Whilst a co-opted Governor at The William Allitt School, Kirk is Deputy CEO at South Staffordshire College. His role includes responsibility for the college's curriculum offer spanning Key Stage 5 16-18 year olds, adults and apprentices, quality improvement, learner services as well as marketing and PR. He also represents the West Midlands on a Further Education National Curriculum Reform group.
Kirks experience in education spans over 30 years in further education from a teacher to departmental manager and now Senior Leader. He is also Chair of a Local Governing Body for an Academy in Staffordshire. His particular skills relate to curriculum design and quality improvement. He has also led colleges through Ofsted inspections and monitoring visits.
Job Titles:
- Senior Lead for Behaviour and Welfare