Norfolk education services
The structure of Norfolk County Council's Children's Services, with focus on the education teams
Children's Services leadership team structure
- Executive Director: Sara Tough
- Director of Learning and Inclusion: Chris Snudden
- Director of Children's Social Care: Phil Watson
- Director of Commissioning Partnerships and Resources: Sarah Jones
- Director of Quality and Transformation: James Wilson
Education Services key contacts
Education Achievement and Early Years Service
Head of Service:
- John Crowley - 01603 222557 or john.crowley@norfolk.gov.uk
Senior team:
- Sarah Burgess: Senior Adviser, Achievement - 01603 307786 or sarah.burgess@norfolk.gov.uk
- Amanda Lowe: Senior Adviser, Assessment - 01603 303304 or amanda.lowe@norfolk.gov.uk
- Jo-anne Lamb: Senior Adviser, Early Years Learning - 01603 638096 or jo-anne.lamb@norfolk.gov.uk
Service support:
- Ruth Foster: Service Support Manager - 01603 223007 or ruth.foster@norfolk.gov.uk
- Sue Brown: Business Support Team Leader, PA to Early Years Adviser - 01603 223462 or sue.brown@norfolk.gov.uk
Education Vulnerable Groups Achievement And Access Service
Head of Service:
- Stuart Mason - 01603 222572 or stuart.mason@norfolk.gov.uk
Senior team:
- Keeley White: Head of VS for LAC, Adopted and SGO - 01603 307794 or keeley.white@norfolk.gov.uk
- Karen Taylor: Head of VS School Sensory Support - 01603 704040 or karen.taylor@norfolk.gov.uk
- Steph Askew: Head of VS for SEND - 01603 307761 or stephanie.askew@norfolk.gov.uk
- Wendy Rudd: Projects Manager - 01603 307742 or wendy.rudd@norfok.gov.uk
Service support:
- Sarah Kendrick: Service Support Manager - 01603 303316 or sarah.kendrick@norfolk.gov.uk
Education Participation, Infrastructure and Partnership Service
Head of Service:
- Sebastian Gasse - 01603 307714 or sebastian.gasse@norfolk.gov.uk
Senior team and managers:
- Karen Hutchison: Senior Adviser, Strategy and Partnership - 01603 223906 or karen.hutchison@norfolk.gov.uk
- Sue Dale: Senior Adviser, Strategy andPartnership - 01603 224342 or sue.dale@norfolk.gov.uk
- Judith Elliott-Hunter: Senior Adviser, Partnership - 01603 222788 or judith.elliott-hunter@norfolk.gov.uk
- Sam Penn: Head of Professional Development Learning (secondment) - 01603 303320 or samantha.penn@norfolk.gov.uk
- Mary Jane Edwards: Senior Adviser Leadership and Governance - 01603 222304 or maryjane.edwards2@norfolk.gov.uk
- Karin Porter: Participation andTransition Strategy Manager - 01603 679174 or karin.porter@norfolk.gov.uk
- Jane Blackwell: Place Planning Manager - 01603 222287 or jane.blackwell@norfolk.gov.uk
- Eric Clarke: Admissions Manager - 01603 223489 or eric.clarke@norfolk.gov.uk
- Isabel Horner: Sufficiency Delivery Manager - 01603 222246 or isabel.horner@norfolk.gov.uk
- Caroline Money: School Organisation Manager - 01603 228828 or caroline.money@norfolk.gov.uk
- Melvyn Ruff: Provider Strategy Manager - 01603 638379 or melvyn.ruff@norfolk.gov.uk
Service support:
- Michelle Smith: Service Support Manager - 01603 222994 or michelle.smith@norfolk.gov.uk
Education Quality Assurance and Intervention Service
Head of Service:
- Sue Smith - 01603 307750 or sue.smith@norfolk.gov.uk
Senior team:
- Micky Harcourt-Heath: Senior Adviser - 01603 303314 or micky.harcourt-heath@norfolk.gov.uk
- Helen Wardale: Governance Intervention Lead Officer - 01603 303356 or helen.wardale@norfolk.gov.uk
- Stuart Graver: Senior Leader - 01603 307721 or stuart.graver@norfolk.gov.uk
- Doug Dale: Senior Leader - 01603 303319 or doug.dale@norfolk.gov.uk
- Debbie Leahy: Senior Leader - 01603 307719 or deborah.leahy@norfolk.gov.uk
- Kelly Waters: Senior Adviser, Safeguarding - 01603 307729 or kelly.waters@norfolk.gov.uk
- Sonia Walker: Senior Adviser - 01603 303311 or sonia.walker@norfolk.gov.uk
Service support:
- Lynda Read: Service Support Manager - 01603 307750 or lynda.read@norfolk.gov.uk
Education High Needs / SEND Service
Interim Head of Service:
- Lorraine Stephen - 01603 307700 or lorraine.stephen@norfolk.gov.uk
Senior team:
- Stuart Brunton-Douglas: High Needs Programme Manager - 01603 222337 or stuart.brunton-douglas@norfolk.gov.uk
- James Thatcher: Principal Education Psychologist - 01603 307562 or james.thatcher@norfolk.gov.uk
- Stephen Higgins: Principal Education Psychologist - 01603 307550 or stephen.higgins@norfolk.gov.uk
- Barbara Kewn: Interim SEND Operations Manager - 01603 638297 or barbara.kewn2@norfolk.gov.uk
SEND and Alternative Provision Transformation
SEND and AP Transformation Lead:
- Michael Bateman - michael.bateman@norfolk.gov.uk
Senior team:
- Nicki Rider: Senior Adviser SEND and AP Transformation and Commissioning - 01603 223876 or nicki.rider@norfolk.gov.uk
- Maxine Blocksidge: Senior Adviser SEND and AP Strategy and Self-Evaluation - 01603 307738 or maxine.blocksidge@norfolk.gov.uk
Service support:
- Kate Hinchley: Service Support Manager - 01603 303328 or kate.hinchley@norfolk.gov.uk
Educator Solutions
Head of Service:
- Stuart Mullineux - 01603 223824 or stuart.mullineux@norfolk.gov.uk
Senior team:
- Alison Randall: Governance and Finance Services - 01603 224273 or alison.randall@norfolk.gov.uk
- Ian Cooper: Human Resources Services - 01603 222897 or ian.cooper@norfolk.gov.uk
- Samantha Penn: Professional Development and Learning - 01603 303320 or samantha.penn@norfolk.gov.uk
- Alison Corfield: Music Service - 01603 307790 or alison.corfield@norfolk.gov.uk
- Lisa Hallett: Marketing and Norfolk Outdoors - 01603 307778 or lisa.hallett@norfolk.gov.uk
- Bill How: Operations Manager - 01603 303317 or bill.how@norfolk.gov.uk