OUR SCHOOL SUPPORT TEAM
PAUL HODGKINSON-CEO
Before Paul became our Chief Executive Officer, he worked as a Head teacher and then as our Executive Principal. Under his executive leadership, our Academies have been judged Outstanding by Ofsted on nine occasions.
He has twenty years’ experience in school leadership and has spent the last five years working locally, regionally and nationally on school-to-school support assignments.
Paul specialises in behaviour, internal alternative provision, school self-evaluation, MAT leadership, staff wellbeing and Governance
REBECCA LEONARD- DIRECTOR OF ACADEMY OPERATIONS
Rebecca currently works across the Bolton Impact Trust as our Director of Academy Operations and before this worked as the Head teacher of one our Secondary Alternative Provision Academies which secured its third Outstanding Ofsted judgement under her leadership.
Rebecca also works as a School SIP and specialises in Safeguarding, Policy and Compliance, AP curriculum, AP leadership and HR processes.
ALISON WOOSEY- DIRECTOR OF EDUCATIONAL STANDARDS
Alison currently works across the Bolton Impact Trust as our Director of Educational Standards and before this, worked as the Head teacher of one our Secondary Alternative Provision Academies which secured its fourth Outstanding Ofsted judgement under her leadership.
Alison specialises in research-led approaches to AP curriculum and AP Leadership. She is also the CPD lead here at the Bolton Impact Trust.
DR CHRIS FIELDING -ACADEMY LEAD PRIMARY
Chris is an experienced school leader who, before joining the Trust, was a mainstream primary school Head teacher. He is currently the Head teacher of our Primary Alternative Behaviour Academy. Over many years Chris has supported thousands of trainee teachers by providing training for ITT providers.
Chris specialises in behaviour, primary AP curriculum and school leadership
BYRON BILLINGTON – DEPUTY ACADEMY LEAD SECONDARY
Byron has been with the Trust for over twenty years and has experience of running the Trust’s vocational skills academy and more recently as a Deputy Head teacher in one of our secondary Alternative Provision Academies. He has worked for many years in an outward facing capacity and has carried out behaviour reviews in a number of Alternative Provision settings
Byron specialises in Vocational study, behaviour, AP leadership and home/school partnerships
GEMMA MORRIS- PERSONAL LEARNING LEAD SECONDARY
Gemma has many years of experience working across Medical and Behaviour AP Settings. She is currently the Personal Development Lead (SLT) in one of our Secondary Alternative Provision Academies and before that worked in our pregnancy unit. She has delivered training on student profiling processes to mainstream and AP colleagues
Gemma specialises in leading Personal Development across the curriculum, Careers and student profiling
COLLETTE MORRIS- DESIGNATED SAFEGUARDING LEAD
Collette is vastly experienced Alternative Provision leader who currently works as the Safeguarding Lead (SLT) in one of our Secondary Alternative Provision settings. She has delivered training and acted in a consultancy capacity to a range of settings and her systems are widely regarded as high quality.
Collette specialises in Safeguarding and working with external stakeholders
ANDREA WHITEHEAD- SEND LEAD
Andrea has many years of experience in special school leadership and is currently the Pupil Support and SEND Lead in our Secondary SEMH Academy. She was an integral part of the leadership team who helped move the school from Inadequate to Good in 2019 and she has developed SEND systems that are now widely recognised as excellent practice. She has advised and supported schools with their approach to meeting student needs.
Andrea specialises in SEND, managing EHCP processes and working with external stakeholders.
MELISSA SMITH- DEPUTY ACADEMY LEAD QUALITY OF EDUCATION
Melissa was a Maths teacher prior to moving into special school leadership where she now holds the position of Deputy Head with responsibility for Quality of Education in our Secondary SEMH Academy. She was an integral part of the leadership team who helped move the school from Inadequate to Good in 2019. Melissa was the architect of our ‘Personal Success Target’ approach to measuring success and has trained many colleagues in assessment methodology.
Melissa specialises in Special School curriculum, data systems and special school leadership.
NICK HOCKENHULL- EXTERNAL CONSULTANT
Before he retired in August 2022, Nick enjoyed a stellar career as an English teacher, mainstream pastoral lead and as the Head teacher of one of our Secondary Alternative Provision Academies. He now works as one of the Trust’s External advisors working with our Academy teams and with the schools we support.
Nick specialises in curriculum design, English, school leadership and pastoral interventions. He also carries out whole school behaviour reviews and audits of internal AP provision.
BESPOKE SUPPORT PACKAGES
Bespoke support packages can be developed to meet your requirements We offer support and training in the following areas;
MAT LEADERSHIP
Description: Advice and support from our experienced Central Team about becoming a more effective Executive team, self-evaluation processes and preparing for MAT Summary Evaluations.
Delivery Method: Face to Face
Price: £600/day
ALTERNATIVE PROVISION/SPECIAL
SCHOOL LEADERSHIP
Description: Advice, support, and training around the key elements of AP and Special School Leadership including access to our Big 10 Leadership checklist
Delivery Method: Face to Face
Price: £600/day
SCHOOL SELF-EVALUATION
Description: Access to the processes we have developed to ensure that Academy selfevaluation activities are accurate and impactful
Delivery Method: Face to Face
Price: £600/day
GOVERNANCE
Description: Full access to our full suite of Governance resources (including report templates) and advice on how we manage the Strategic Risk Register
Delivery Method: Virtual 2 hours
Price: £150
SAFEGUARDING
Description: Advice, support and training from our experienced Trust and Academy DSL teams including systems, processes and engaging successfully with Agencies
Delivery Method: Face to Face
Price: £500/day
INTERNAL ALTERNATIVE PROVISION
Description: Support with developing best practice in mainstream internal alternative provision. Advice focuses on referral and review processes, building a catalogue of interventions and analysing what successful placements look like. The package will include access to our AP checklist
Delivery Method: Face to Face
Price: £300/ half day
BEHAVIOUR MANAGEMENT STRATEGY
Description: Behaviour review visits from our team which will comprise meetings with school leaders, staff and students, analysis of data, visiting lessons and analysing the impact of policies and interventions. All reviews are followed by a recommendations report.
Delivery Method: Onsite
Price: £1100/day
EHCP PROCESSES
Description: An introduction to the processes which allow us to track student progress against the recommendations in their EHCPs (Education Health and Care Plan)
Delivery Method: Face to Face or virtual
Price: £200/half day
ALTERNATIVE PROVISION AND SPECIAL SCHOOL CURRICULUM
Description: Advice support and training around developing Trust-wide and Academy curriculum intent statements and how to ensure that curriculum implementation is a high standard
Delivery Method: Face to Face
Price: £500/day
VOCATIONAL STUDY
Description: Full access to the team who lead our Vocational Skills offer across the Trust and access to our curriculum plans and resources
Delivery Method: Face to Face
Price: £400/day
CAREERS EDUCATION IN ALTERNATIVE AND SPECIAL SETTINGS
Description: Advice, support, and training from our experienced team of leaders who have responsibility for work experience, careers education, meeting Gatsby benchmarks and supporting AP and Special School students with securing successful post-16 destinations
Delivery Method: Face to Face
Price: £400/day
PASTORAL INTERVENTIONS AND STUDENT PROFILING
Description: Training, support, and free resources around our highly impactful student profiling systems
Delivery Method: Face to Face
Price: £250/half day
STAFF WELLBEING
Description: Access to our full suite of staff wellbeing resources including our staff wellbeing charter and our wellbeing credits system.
Deliver Method: Face to face or virtual
Price: £250/half day
PRICING & PAYMENTS
Pricing
Supporting Category
CEO Support
External consultant Support
Central Leadership Support
Academy Lead Support
Subject Specialist Support
Payments
Daily Rate
£700
£500
£500
£450
£350
Fees quoted are correct at the time of publication. All fees quoted are exclusive of VAT which will be charged where applicable. Payments should be made to The Bolton Impact Trust.
Notes
1. At the outset, the resource required to support, and the number of days will be agreed.
2. Package rates may be agreed for specific reviews or where a number of visits are required across a period of time.
3. Additional charges for any reasonable travel, subsistence and accommodation cost will be added to invoices.
4. Costs will be invoiced at 50% of the fixed price in advance, the remainder of the fixed price, plus any variable costs on the completion of the report.
5. Where there a number of visits, invoices will be issued after each visit at mutually agreed points.
6. Support will include an agreed number of visits and report.
7. Time charged will include preparation, visit(s), report-writing, and travel time over one hour.
8. An admin fee of 5% of the total fixed price will be charged
