Profile of Chris Malone, Head of Education and Learning

After our recent Headteachers' Conference, we received feedback that delegates would like to hear some biographical information about our new Head of Education and Learning, Chris Malone:

Chris Malone brings a wealth of experience to Warwickshire. She was a primary headteacher in Gloucestershire, and taught in several primary schools, large and small in urban and rural Herefordshire, across the full primary age range. She has also worked as an advisory teacher for early years, NVQ assessor, principal of a Further Education Centre and a playgroup leader.

More recently, Chris spent six years in Gloucestershire and four years in Oxfordshire, in a range of local authority leadership roles. Examples include senior commissioning manager for services from birth to 25 in a joint commissioning team managed by Health, and line managing social care managers, Access and Inclusion Manager, Early Years Strategic Lead, and Strategic Lead for Education Quality. She also spent eight months working for Ofsted as an HMI for schools.

In recent years she has shared the role of Deputy Director for Education, with two colleagues, and led a genuinely 'system-led' school improvement function. Chris has a relentless focus on improving outcomes for vulnerable learners, as well as a determination to achieve cost effectiveness with reducing budgets. A resident of Warwickshire, she is married with three grown up children, one of whom teaches in the county.