Guidance

Enrichment framework expert working group

Published 15 June 2026

Applies to England

Group members

Anne Appelbaum

Anne is Director of Children, Young People & Learning at Arts Council England, with responsibility for programmes and policies that support the creative lives of children and young people. She commissioned the first equality analysis of Arts Council’s work for, by and with children and young people and set up the first Youth Advisory Board.

Dr Tesca Bennett 

Tesca is the former Executive Principal at Haberdashers’ Knights Academy, part of the Haberdashers’ Academies Trust South, Multi Academy Trust. She is a passionate advocate for inclusive leadership and educational equity. She serves as trustee for The Brit School, The Teaching Trust Awards, and is Vice Chair at Astrea Multi Academy Trust. She is an executive coach and facilitates the National Professional Qualification for Headship.

Alistair Crawford 

Alistair is the Workforce Development Lead at Eden Academy. Prior to this, he worked in a range of specialist and mainstream schools across the East Midlands as a teacher, senior leader and Director of Inclusion. As an experienced Specialist Leader of Education and School and Multi-Academy Trust reviewer, Alistair has supported many schools and colleagues to develop their SEND provision and improve outcomes for young people with additional needs.  

Sam Ellis 

Sam is Business Development Manager at Oasis Trust. Oasis works in communities across education, housing, justice, health, youth, and family support. Oasis has 54 academies across England.

Lt Col Edward Fairnington 

Edward is the Head of Co-Curricular at Matravers School. He has interests in the development of the individual alongside their formal academic achievements. He has overseen programs such as the Combined Cadet Force, Duke of Edinburgh’s Awards, Sports Leaders UK qualifications, Ten Tors and Jubilee Challenge, Pixl Edge awards, and accessible outdoor education visits throughout Europe.

Polly Harrow

Polly is Assistant Principal for student experience at Kirklees College and Chair of National Association of Managers of Student Services (NAMSS). Polly was appointed FE student support champion by DfE in 2023.

Donna Hubbard-Young 

Donna is Deputy CEO for Bishop Hogarth Catholic Education Trust which has 35 schools across Darlington, Billingham, Hartlepool, Stockton, and Durham. The trust has recently acted as one of the coordinating organisations for the Enrichment Partnerships Pilot co- funded by DfE and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS).

Linda Magrath OBE 

Linda is the CEO of the Laurus Trust, an experienced National Leader of Education and an Ofsted Inspector. The Trust currently has 6 secondary schools, 5 primary schools and a newly opened alternative provision.

Ruth Marvel OBE 

Ruth is the CEO of The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award (DofE). DofE exists to help young people build life-long belief in themselves, supporting them to take on their own challenges, follow their passions, and discover talents they never knew they had.

Joanne Moss

Jo is the Strategic Policy Lead for Children and Young People at Sport England, where she oversees national policy work designed to help more children and young people lead active lives. She recently led the national review of the School Games Organisers Network, working closely with multiple Government departments.  

Connie Muttock 

Connie is the Head of Policy at the Centre for Young Lives, the independent think tank and delivery unit dedicated exclusively to improving the lives of children, young people, and families in the UK. Connie leads the centre’s policy research and influencing activity, including authoring Beyond the Classroom, a report which considered the role of enrichment in tackling school absence.

Eddie Playfair

Eddie is the Senior Policy Manager at Association of Colleges. Before this, he worked in a number of Further Education settings, including as Principal at Newham Sixth Form College in East London.

David Robinson 

David is the Director for Post-16 and Skills at the Education Policy Institute (EPI). David’s background includes 6 years at DfE, as the lead analyst on school accountability and capital funding. Since joining EPI David has led a broad range of research on post-16 education, with a focus on inequalities.   

Liz Robinson 

Liz is the co-founder and CEO of Big Education, a Multi-Academy Trust of schools in underserved communities in inner London. Big Education runs a number of projects and programmes, including Rethinking Assessment, Rethinking Leadership, the ‘Rethinking School’ project and the Big Education Leadership Programme, to facilitate innovation, build capacity in others and advocate for change.  

Paul Roseby OBE 

Paul is the CEO and Artistic Director of the National Youth Theatre. Over more than a decade, he has commissioned over 150 plays, pioneered a leading free alternative to formal acting training, launched a global cultural exchange programme, and directed hit productions including the London 2012 Welcome Ceremonies. He has chaired the Evening Standard Future Fund with TikTok, leads a national backstage skills drive with Netflix, and spoke on AI in immersive education at Bett UK with Microsoft. 

Paul Walton

Paul is the Acting Headteacher at All Saints Catholic College, a mixed secondary school in London. Ofsted judged All Saints College to be outstanding in their most recent inspection (2022). The school designs their co-curricular offer to “provide students with a wide range of activities to grow their confidence and expose them to activities they wouldn’t ordinarily undertake”.