Governors

Local Authority Governors

Judy Downey – Chair

Rachel Allison - Deputy Chair
	Contact Number: 020 8372 0812 E-mail: rachel.allison@haringeylibdems.org I was appointed as a Local Authority Governor in January 2008. I am the Deputy Chair of the Full Governing Body and the Chair of the Curriculum Committee. I have two school age children and in my work as a local councillor have a special interest in children's services. I have a degree in Human Sciences and have previously produced short films and worked extensively as a copywriter.
Geoff Gilbey

Tom Davidson

Community Governors

Michael Modell

E-mail: m.modell@ucl.ac.uk

I have been a community governor at Blanche Nevile for the past 3 years with special responsibility for Numeracy. I am also a member of the Curriculum and Resources Committees.

My work background was medical academia. I was a general practitioner for thirty years at the James Wigg Practice in the Kentish Town Health Centre, a large multiethnic practice which pioneered the concept that primary care should be provided by a team made up of health professionals from many different disciplines, not just doctors. I was also a member of the Department of Primary Care at University College, and responsible for teaching medical students about the practice of medicine in the community, outside teaching hospitals. After I retired I became a governor at a secondary school for boys with behavioural difficulties and am also the Chair of Crossroads Care Camden, a charity dedicated to providing support for carers who look after a relative or friend. We have lived in the same house in Haringey for 44 years, in recent years sharing it with our daughter and her family. This has meant that two of our grandchildren went to the same primary school (Highgate Primary), as did our children in the 1970s.

Douglas Ford

I was appointed a school governor at Blanche Nevile in January 2009 and am a member of the Curriculum Committee, with responsibility for careers education and business enterprise.

I graduated in Politics from Liverpool University and did post-graduate work at the University Of Kent and the London School of Economics. Most of my career has been spent in secondary school teaching though I also worked for the Bank of England, British Council, Open University and English Heritage. I became an OFSTED school inspector before going abroad as an education advisor specialising in careers education and guidance. Currently, I work as an economics and business studies private tutor.

My leisure interests focus on cinema, theatre, walking and travel (particularly to China and Japan).

Parent Governors

Katherine Hadoke
	E-mail: katherinehadoke@yahoo.co.uk I joined the board of governors at Blanche Nevile in 2009 and am a member of the Resources and the Curriculum Committees. I have a profoundly deaf son with a cochlear implant. During my 8 years experience of bringing up a deaf child I have studied Auditory Verbal Therapy, Cued Speech and British Sign Language. I am also a member of the National Deaf Children’s Society and the Cochlear Implanted Children’s Society. My own education is to degree level in Maths and Drama. As a freelance actor I work regularly for the Learning Trust and previously for the Dfes recruiting head-teachers, fasttrack teachers and governing body advisers.
Stephen Bentley-Klein

Stephen Radley

Darren and Denise Bacchus