Kent School Appeals is a skilled team comprising Andrew Williamson and Paul Clark as our two principal advisors, Julia Shaw as data and analytics specialist and Anne Le Floch as our professional report writer. 

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Andy has worked in education for over twenty five years. He has been a senior school adviser for Kent Local Authority and a regional board member for the Kent Association of Headteachers. He has represented Kent Headteachers for a Select Committee on  social mobility and admissions in Kent grammar schools. Andy has a Masters Degree in Educational Studies and for the last seven years he has been the Headteacher of a Kent Grammar School.  

 

Paul has also worked in schools for thirty years and is an experienced educational consultant specialising in social education and school admissions. He has spent a number of years working and advising on the Primary-Secondary transition to parents, families and schools in Kent. Paul has undertaken research & presented at National Conferences on the difficulties associated with school transition. 

 

Between them they have sat in over 700 school appeals over the last five years with a wide variety of Appeal panels. 

With Julia and Anne who support with their specific data analysis and written presentation skills, Kent School Appeals has a network of school senior leaders in both the Primary and Secondary sectors whom they can call upon for the latest information at both a county and individual school level.