Our Team

Our Appropriate Body (AB) team provide a fair and independent quality assurance service for school inductions.

Mark Beyer-Woodgate, Harris Institute Senior Director & Harris Institute Teaching School Hubs.

Mark is the named person for Appropriate Body services and oversees this division. As Designated Safeguarding Lead, all ECTs and schools have direct access to Mark's support and can raise concerns at any time. All disclosures and complaints about induction will be investigated thoroughly and sensitively and a resolution achieved. The AB contacts will only take action once a concern has first been raised with the school and both parties have been unable to reach a resolution. Mark chairs panels for the National AB Peer Review,  Reduced Inductions, Extended Inductions, Risks of Failure and Appeals. Mark is also is a member of the London and East of England AB networks, engages and oversees local delivery partners and reports to the DfE on AB policy and implementation of the statutory guidance.  For more information please visit Mark's full profile here: https://www.harrisinstitute.org.uk/18/meet-our-team-1/person/2/mark-beyer-woodgate. To contact Mark please email: Mark.BeyerWoodgate@harrisinstitute.org.uk. 

Our Regional AB Lead, Kate Castro-Martin, is responsible for leading the strategic direction and operational management of the AB  service across all our TSH regions. Kate oversees AB delivery partners, AB reviewers, and the AB administration team. She is the main point of contact from onboarding to completing induction and leads our quality assurance function, visiting schools, providing training, and advising on panels regarding struggling ECTs.

Our AB Coordinator, Melanie Jones, is responsible for tracking ECT progress; managing our online platform, ECT Manager; quality assuring our marketing, events and communications, including our weekly bulletins; reporting to the Teacher Regulation Agency; and liaising with school business partners on SLAs and invoices.

Our AB administrator, Sophie Bannister, is responsible for school registrations and onboarding, responding to ECT Manager help desk tickets, and general communications with schools.

Our Director of Teacher Development, Natasha Evans, is an experienced AB leader and manages any conflicts of interest with appeals panels for failing ECTs, or reviews for reduced or extended inductions.

 

Our AB Delivery Partners, Catalyst Academy Trust, Seven Kings High School, Redbridge Local Authority and Waltham Forest Local Authority provide localised school support and monitoring of Induction, review ECT reports, provide feedback, and manage ECTs on support plans.

Andrea Parfett, Appropriate Body Lead at Catalyst Academies Trust, Thurrock on behalf of Chafford Hundred Teaching School Hub

Chris D'Netto, Appropriate Body Lead at Seven Kings High School, Redbridge on behalf of North East London Chobham Teaching School Hub

Sylvia Harper, ECT Coordinator at Waltham Forest Local Authority on behalf of North East London Chobham Teaching School Hub