We have had further conversations with the Secretary and the Group Deputy Secretary George Harrisson around the Org chart and some of the machinations and “odd names” ( Chief Operating Officer; Chief People Officer ..) and were re-assured that schools were still the main focus. The re-organisation followed the Mercer Review into the “span of control” of senior officers among other things. Our DoE Cluster has two Ministers ( Sarah Mitchell & Geoff Lee) and its focus is on life-long learning from Early Childhood right through to “skills”.

As part of the restructure we have the roles of corporate EDs and Directors being re-written and there will be jockeying for positions right through until September and its very concerning.

SPC President Craig Petersen & I met the new A/Dep Sec David Withey who comes to us from Treasury. He is keen to get out into schools, so we will arrange it.