Exclusive: DfE fails to update Regional Schools Commissioner register of interests for almost a year

The Department for Education has failed to update its public record on the interests of its Regional Schools Commissioners and their Headteacher Boards for nearly a year, Education Uncovered can disclose.

A spreadsheet setting out these interests – which range from past and present involvement with particular schools to positions held by relatives– has not been amended since June 27^th, 2017.

With two of England’s eight Regional Schools Commissioners having left their posts since that date, these two former RSCs remain on the spreadsheet with their interests declared, but their successors – those actually in the job, since September last year – do not feature.

In addition, the records in relation to members of Headteacher Boards, accessible via the same spreadsheet, have also not been changed since last June, before last autumn’s elections to the posts.

This means that the 640 lines of data on Headteacher Board (RSC/HTB) members’ interest appears to relate entirely to previous members of these influential bodies, rather than the current ones.