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Roy Blatchford CBE

Roy Blatchford is founder of www.blinks.education - working with schools, local authorities, academy trusts, colleges and universities in the UK and internationally. He currently chairs the Essex Education Task Force, the Gloucestershire Education Forum and the children's communication charity Speech and Language UK.

Roy was Founding CEO (2006 - 2016) of the National Education Trust and of www.netacademies.net. Previously he served as one of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools (HMI) in England, with national responsibilities for school improvement and for the inspection of outstanding schools. He has extensive experience of writing inspection frameworks, nationally and internationally, and has reviewed over 1000 schools and colleges in Europe, USA, Middle East and India. He spent three years implementing education system reform in the Middle East.

Roy is an international trainer and conference speaker on language, school improvement, curriculum development, leadership and governance. He has been an adviser to various UK governments, including Deputy Chair of the DfE Teachers Standards Review (2011) and of the Headteachers Standards Review (2014). He chaired ASCL's Commission 'The Forgotten Third'.

Roy began his teaching career in London, moving to be Principal of schools in Oxfordshire and Milton Keynes. He is Visiting Fellow at Reading University, was a visiting university professor in the USA, and is co-founder of the Mumbai-based education foundation Adhyayan.

Roy is the author/editor of over 150 books. He was appointed CBE for services to education in the 2016 New Year Honours.

Language talks: November 2021 - .pptx

Language talks: November 2021 - .pdf

2007 David Bell 2008 Estelle Morris 2009 Shami Chakrabarti 2010 Alan Milburn 2011 Maggie Atkinson 2012 Peter Hyman 2013 David Laws 2014 Michael Barber

2015 Tony Little 2016 Sally Coates 2017 Laura McInerney 2018 Geoff Barton 2019 Rachel Macfarlane 2020 Suspended 2021 Suspended

Must do better: how to improve the image of teaching and why it matters (February 2022)

'Must do better: how to improve the image of teaching and why it matters' by Harry Hudson & Roy Blatchford is available from John Catt Educational.