Jonathan has worked in education for over 25 years and is passionate about the importance of children’s early experiences in education. He has worked across a wide range of schools as a teacher, senior leader and as a senior advisor for a large local authority, where he led the curriculum and learning and teaching teams. Jonathan is an experienced school improvement partner and is also a qualified and practising Ofsted Inspector, working in the London Region. Jonathan’s focus in the trust is first and foremost focused on working with senior leaders to ensure that safeguarding is effective in all trust schools. He is also responsible for the trust quality of education strategy which focuses on securing high quality curricula and enabling excellent teaching and learning. His experience and expertise in teacher training and school improvement has supported each of the trust’s schools in their ongoing improvement journeys. Jonathan works outside of the trust offering training and consultancy on school improvement, leadership and management and curriculum, teaching and learning. He also supports and contributes to national networks through conference keynotes and events. Jonathan is a trustee of the London based charity ‘Growing Against Violence’. The charity runs workshops for schools tackling gang culture and safeguarding threats associated with gangs and social media. The charity has reached over 300,000 children and young people across London an the home counties since its inception. As a member of the executive leadership team, Jonathan also supports the work and development of governance across all trust schools.