Drawing on four years’ experience as Regional Schools
Commissioner for South London and South-East England,
Dominic Herrington has spent recent months helping
academy schools across the country to continue driving
up standards – building on the recent milestone of more
than 50 per cent of children in state-funded schools in
England now studying in an academy or free school.
Herrington will now help to deliver operational changes
to the work of Regional Schools Commissioners (RSC) in
the coming months – to help schools, academy trusts and
local authorities work with them by creating an even
more joined-up team in each of the eight RSC regions.
National Schools Commissioner Dominic Herrington, said:
Over the last eight months I have thoroughly enjoyed
working with academy trusts. I am very much looking
forward to continuing to work with the team of
Regional School Commissioners – helping them to
support and challenge school leaders to deliver the
best possible education for children right across
England.
Academies Minister said:
Having worked with Dominic extensively over several
years at the Department for Education, I am delighted
by his appointment. He brings great energy and deep
expertise to this important role.
More than 8,300 schools in the country have become an
academy or opened as a free school since 2010 and
hundreds of schools each year make the positive choice
to become an academy.
Today’s announcement will help schools and trusts
across the county to build on the successes to date –
with figures
published earlier this year showing that
standards are rising faster in many sponsored academies
than in similar council-run schools.
The department is in the process of confirming a
permanent replacement for the Regional School
Commissioner for the South East England and South
London Region.
