Transparency data

Ofsted business appointment rules advice: July 2018 to December 2022

Updated 16 December 2022

Applies to England

December 2022

Name of Applicant	Sean Harford
Title of Civil Service Role	National Director Education
Date left/retired from Civil Service	31 August 2021
New employment / appointment	Education Development Trust Consultant – Review of Quality Assurance & Self-Assessment Processes
Summary of the department’s decision on the application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied)	You should not use, or share, any sensitive or confidential information gained during your employment with Ofsted or use such information to secure advantage to EDT unless this information is already in the public domain. You may of course use information that would be freely available to a member of the public. You should avoid any implication that your former role of National Director Education, would offer EDT an advantage in terms of financial gain or competitive advantage. You should avoid any implication that your former role of National Director, Education would offer EDT an advantage in terms of inspection and regulation. You should not use your former contacts at Ofsted, the Department for Education or government to secure work or commercial advantage for EDT. You must not use the title HMI, in any form including “former HMI”, once you have left Ofsted. You should refrain from activity, which could constitute lobbying of government, on the inspection and regulation of education or children’s social care until 1 September 2023.

November 2022

Name of Applicant	Sean Harford
Title of Civil Service Role	National Director Education
Date left/retired from Civil Service	31 August 2021
New employment / appointment	Interim Director Oak Academy
Summary of the department’s decision on the application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied)	You should not use, or share, any sensitive or confidential information gained during your employment with Ofsted or use such information to secure advantage to Oak Academy unless this information is already in the public domain. You may of course use information that would be freely available to a member of the public. You should avoid any implication that your former role of National Director Education, would offer Oak Academy an advantage in terms of financial gain or competitive advantage. You should avoid any implication that your former role of National Director, Education would offer Oak Academy an advantage in terms of inspection and regulation. You should not use your former contacts at Ofsted, the Department for Education or government to secure work or commercial advantage for Oak Academy. You must not use the title HMI, in any form including “former HMI”, once you have left Ofsted. You should refrain from activity, which could constitute lobbying of government, on the inspection and regulation of education or children’s social care until 1 September 2023.

October 2022

Name of applicant	Gill Jones
Title of Civil Service Role	Deputy Director, Schools and early Education
Date left/retired from Civil Service	31 October 2022
New employment / appointment	Chief Officer for Quality and Safeguarding, Busy Bees Nurseries Ofsted Inspector Schools Consultant
Summary of the department’s decision on the application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied)	You should not use, or share, any sensitive or confidential information gained during your employment with Ofsted or use such information to secure advantage to Busy Bees Nurseries, or any school that has engaged you as a consultant, unless this information is already in the public domain. You may of course use information that would be freely available to a member of the public. You should not promote your consultancy work while working as an Ofsted Inspector or use the contacts gained through your work as an Ofsted Inspector to promote your consultancy work or secure consultancy work. You should avoid any implication that your former role of Deputy Director, Schools and Early Education Policy, would offer Busy Bees Nurseries, or any school that engages you as a consultant, an advantage in terms of financial gain or competitive advantage. You should avoid any implication that your former role of Deputy Director, Schools and Early Education Policy would offer Busy Bees Nurseries, or any school that engages you as a consultant, an advantage in terms of inspection and regulation. You should not use your former contacts at Ofsted, the Department for Education or government to secure work or commercial advantage for you or for Busy Bees Nurseries. You must not use the title HMI, in any form including “former HMI”, once you have left Ofsted. You should refrain from activity, which could constitute lobbying of government, on the inspection and regulation of education or children’s social care until 1 November 2024.

March 2022

Name of applicant	Sean Harford
Title of Civil Service Role	National Director Education
Date left/retired from Civil Service	31 August 2021
New employment/appointment	Camden Learning
Summary of the department’s decision on the application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied)	You should not use, or share, any sensitive or confidential information gained during your employment with Ofsted or use such information to secure advantage to Camden Learning, unless this information is already in the public domain. You may of course use information that would be freely available to a member of the public. You should avoid any implication that your former role of National Director of Education would offer Camden Learning an advantage in terms of financial gain or competitive advantage. You should avoid any implication that your former role of National Director of Education would offer Camden Learning an advantage in terms of inspection and regulation. You should not use your former contacts at Ofsted, the Department for Education or government to secure work or commercial advantage for you or for Camden Learning. The standard restriction on any use of the title HMI in any form including “former HMI” continues to apply. You should refrain from activity, which could constitute lobbying of government, on the inspection and regulation of education or children’s social care until 1 September 2023.

December 2021

Name of applicant	Sean Harford
Title of Civil Service role	National Director Education
Date left/retired from Civil Service	31 August 2021
New employment / appointment	Possible appointment to British Council
Summary of the department’s decision on the application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied)	The following conditions would apply to any future appointment with the British Council: - You should not use, or share, any sensitive or confidential information gained during your employment with Ofsted or use such information to secure advantage to the British Council, unless this information is already in the public domain. This includes refraining from using any information of a kind that would not be made available on request to the general public. - You should not use your former title or position at Ofsted to secure financial gain or competitive advantage to the British Council. Once you leave your employment you are no longer entitled to use the title HMI in any form including ‘former HMI’. - You should not use your former contacts at Ofsted or the Department for Education to secure work or commercial advantage for the British Council. - You should refrain from activity, which could constitute lobbying of government, on the inspection and regulation of education or children’s social care until 1 September 2023.

June 2021

Name of applicant	Bradley Simmons
Title of Civil Service role	Regional Director
Date left/retired from Civil Service	30 June 2021
New employment / appointment	Assistant Director of School Improvement at Westcountry Schools Trust (MAT)
Summary of the department’s decision on the application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied)	Work undertaken for any school, college, local authority, charity or employer must continue to be subject to the following conditions: - Not use, or share, any sensitive or confidential information gained during your employment with Ofsted or use such information to secure advantage to your company or any other employer, unless this information is already in the public domain. This includes refraining from using any information of a kind that would not be made available on request to the general public. - Not use your former title or position at Ofsted to secure financial gain or competitive advantage for your company. Once you leave your employment you are no longer entitled to use the title HMI in any form including former HMI. - Not use your contacts at Ofsted or the Department for Education in a way which would not be available to a member of the general public to secure work or commercial advantage for you or your company. - Refrain from activity, which would constitute lobbying of government, on the inspection and regulation of education or children’s social care.

March 2019

Name of applicant	Luke Tryl
Title of Civil Service role	Director of Strategy
Date left/retired from Civil Service	1 March 2019
New employment / appointment	Director Public First
Summary of the department’s decision on the application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied)	Work undertaken for any school, college, local authority, charity or employer must continue to be subject to the following conditions: - Not use, or share, any sensitive or confidential information gained during your employment with Ofsted or use such information to secure advantage to Public First, unless this information is already in the public domain. This includes refraining from using any information of a kind that would not be made available on request to the general public. - Not use your former title or position at Ofsted to secure financial gain or competitive advantage to Public First. - Not use your contacts at Ofsted or the Department for Education to secure work or commercial advantage to Public First. - Refrain from activity, which would constitute lobbying of government, on the inspection and regulation of education or children’s social care.

July 2018

Name of applicant	Amelia Walker
Title of Civil Service role	Deputy Director, Research and Evaluation
Date left/retired from the Civil Service	6 July 2018
New employment/appointment	National Director Strategy and Quality Improvement, Ormiston Academies Trust
Summary of the department’s decision on the application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied)	Work undertaken for any school, college, local authority, charity or employer must continue to be subject to the following conditions: - Not draw on any privileged information that was available as a Civil Servant in the course of the new work. - Not use any contacts within the sector, Ofsted, or the Department for Education to secure any information of a kind that would not be made available on request to any member of the public. - Not share any sensitive or confidential information gained in the course of the employment which is not already within the public domain or use this confidential information to secure work. - Not draw on the Ofsted job title or status once leaving Ofsted as this title is pertinent to those who currently hold the role. This includes any potential publication and validation of the research carried out. - Not be involved in lobbying the UK government on behalf of the employer.