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# The Inspectors of Education, Children’s Services and Skills Order 2026

## Title and introductory text {#prelims}

2026 No. 269
Education, England
Children And Young Persons, England
The Inspectors of Education, Children’s Services and Skills Order 2026
Made
10th March 2026
Coming into force
11th March 2026
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 10th day of March 2026
Present,
The King’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council
His Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 114(1) of the Education and Inspections Act 2006, is pleased, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, to order as follows:

## 1 Citation and commencement {#article-1}

This Order may be cited as the Inspectors of Education, Children’s Services and Skills Order 2026 and comes into force on 11th March 2026.

## 2 Appointment of His Majesty’s Inspectors of Education, Children’s Services and Skills {#article-2}

The persons named in the Schedule to this Order are appointed as His Majesty’s Inspectors of Education, Children’s Services and Skills.

## SCHEDULE The persons appointed as His Majesty’s Inspectors of Education, Children’s Services and Skills on 11th March 2026 {#schedule}

Article 2
Ruth Baldwin
Lorraine Margaret Bamforth
Andrew Charles Beattie
Elizabeth Jane Bennett
Amy Blackburn
Samantha Leslie Carnegie
Mark Lane Carter-Tufnell
Lisa Bridget Corrigan
Elliot Costas-Walker
Gemma Louise Dixon
Martin Elliot Dyer
Katherine Jane Fallan
Christopher John Fielding
Anneka May Fisher
Helen Mhairi Grace Fowler
Helen Roberta Rose Fry
Lorraine Greco
Karen Lindsay Hambleton
Nicholas James Edward Hitchen
Laura Anne Hopley
Neil Adrian Johnson
Duncan Kamya
Usman Kamruddin Kothia
Emily Ann Leonard
Ross Christopher Marks
Vanessa Louise Mason
Claire Louise Medhurst
Jody Louise Murphy
Ulric Devere Neblett-Leigh
Kathryn Pym
Lyndsey May Reed
Piers Saunders
Tess Madeleine Sharman
Yvette Stanley
Sarah Jane Stevens
David Kenneth Stevenson
Thomas Geoffrey Theobold
Nichola Jane Tomkow
Michael Joseph Wardle
Sarah Louise Wilson