A ULT Academy in Kettering Consultation Report February 2009 Acknowledgements The Consultants thank Pamela Hutchinson, Head Teacher of Montagu School, and the Head Teachers, Inga Walters & Roger Tweed, Avondale Infants School and Dawn Cotter, Avondale Junior School for making our arrangements possible during this consultation process. Our special thanks to Sharon Stratton, PA to Mrs Hutchinson, who provided us with excellent administrative support, liaising with and coordinating all our arrangements with key stakeholders. We are also grateful to the school’s administrative and catering teams and to all the staff and students who made us welcome. We thank the staff and stakeholders who gave generously of their time to be interviewed and whose views were immensely valuable to this report. We also thank all those who attended the public meetings and other group meetings, including those who participated in the Parents’ Telephone Survey. Your views were greatly valued. A special thanks to the students who told us of their concerns and their views about the proposed new academy. We thank the sponsors, United Church Schools Trust and the United Learning Trust, particularly Martyn Baker, ULT Project Director and Duncan Mills, Northamptonshire County Council, Academies Lead and the Project Officers team for their project management support. Finally, we thank Marissa Lestrade, Research Assistant, part of our team working on this project; ORB for the conduct and analysis of the Parents Survey; Carolyne Hill Design for the consultation documentation, report cover and map; Justin McLaren and Nigel Barber and the team at 8hwe Communications Consultancy for their skilled advice and generous support throughout. We enjoyed working with you all. Jocelyn Barrow and Dawn Hill DJB Consultancy February 2009 A ULT Academy in Kettering Consultation Report February 2009 CONSULTANTS' PROFILES DAME JOCELYN BARROW - Lead Consultant Dame Jocelyn Barrow is the lead Consultant at DJB Consultancy which has undertaken 17 public consultations on Academy projects to date. She is also a Principal Consultant at Focus Consultancy Ltd. She is a senior executive with a distinguished and wide ranging career in education, public service, and community relations. She has held Government appointments with a variety of national organisations and statutory bodies and Inquiries. She was a founding member and General Secretary of CARD (Campaign Against Racial Discrimination) which was responsible for developing the Race Relations legislation of 1968. She has been a senior teacher in Tower Hamlets and later a teacher-trainer at Furzedown College and Lecturer at the Institute of Education, London University in the 1960s. She was a pioneer in introducing multi-cultural education addressing the needs of the various ethnic groups in the UK. She was the first black woman Governor of the BBC, and was Founder and Deputy Chair of the Broadcasting Standards Council. Her Government appointments and voluntary public service include: Governor of the Commonwealth Institute for 8 years; Council member of Goldsmith’s College, University of London; Trustee of the National Museums and Galleries of Merseyside, where she was instrumental in the establishment of the Trans- Atlantic Slavery Gallery and the Maritime Museum in Liverpool. She is also a Trustee of the Horniman Museum, and the Irene Taylor Trust providing Music in Prisons. She was a Foundation Governor of the West London Institute of Education, now part of Brunel University, and a Governor of the Polytechnic which now forms the University of East London. She was Chair of the Inquiry for the Inns of Court Law School into the Education of Barristers, and Chair of the Inquiries into Secondary Education in Brent and in Newham. She has recently chaired (2003-2005) The Mayor of London’s Commission on African and Asian Heritage and Culture. She has been active in voluntary and community organisations for over 35 years, including dealing with issues relating to race, gender, women and housing. In 1972, Jocelyn Barrow was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for work in the field of education and community relations. In 1992, she was made a Dame of the British Empire (DBE) for her work in broadcasting and contribution to the work of the European Union as a Member of the Social and Economic Committee, representing the UK in Brussels. Dame Jocelyn has received honorary Doctorates from the University of East London in 1994, the University of Greenwich in 1996, the University of Middlesex in 1999 and the University of York in 2007. A ULT Academy in Kettering Consultation Report February 2009 DAWN HILL Dawn Hill is the other partner in DJB Consultancy, and has worked on 17 Academy public consultation projects. She has extensive professional experience in education and health care and a long record of voluntary and community work. She is a trained nurse (SRN) and an experienced practitioner in Human Resources Management, Social Policy Administration and Healthcare. She has postgraduate diplomas in Personnel Management and Social Administration from the London School of Economics and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. She has previously worked in senior management positions in the National Health Service, Social Services and as Head of Education Personnel at Southwark Local Education Authority. For 8 years she co-ordinated the UK Research and Health Promotion projects at Focus Consultancy Ltd. and carried out a number of health and social care reviews of service provision for black and minority ethnic communities in the UK and media campaigns for the Department of Health. She co-ordinated a European African and Health Partneriat programme for 4 years. In her work in health promotion she has piloted initiatives on sex education in schools as part of the Personal Social and Health Education (PSHE) curriculum and the Healthier Schools Partnership programmes in two schools, and has worked with Partners in Evaluation on an evaluation of the Healthier Schools Partnership Programme in Lambeth. From November 1999 to November 2007, she has been a Non-Executive Director of Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and has chaired its Equality and Diversity and Personnel and Workforce Board sub- committees. She is Chair of the Governors of the Evelina Children’s Hospital School and a member of the Evelina Children’s Hospital Appeal Committee. Dawn Hill has been actively involved with voluntary activities and community organisations for over 30 years. Her community activities include board membership of the Black Cultural Archives, currently working on proposals to establish Britain’s first national Black Heritage Centre, to be located in Lambeth. She is an independent lay panel member for Lambeth Education Appeals. She founded Rainbow Community Nursery in Hackney in 1973 and was Chair of Norwood Girls School in Lambeth for 8 years. She has been Vice Chair of the African Caribbean Family Mediation Service, whose Home-School Mediation project provided services to a number of schools in South London. She chaired Blackliners for 10 years, the London-based HIV/AIDS service for African, Caribbean and Asian people, a non-governmental voluntary organisation of which she was a founder in 1989. .