Bristol City Council’s Latest Director of Education Jumps Ship for Liverpool

Bristol Director ditches city to tinker with the same in Liverpool

Bristol City Council’s Director of Education will be leaving the city for Liverpool, a little over a year after starting the same role in Bristol.

Having spent a year turning the Delivering Better Value in SEND into the Bristol Safety Valve fiasco, the transformation was no water into wine success. Bristol Send is left in disarray with its secretive application to the Department of Education pushed through by the former Labour education lead Asher Craig, ahead of the May 2024 elections.

Liverpool City Council says it is ‘very excited’ to welcome Bhogal-Welsh to its Education and Inclusion team.

It says: ‘Reena will be responsible for improving education outcomes for children and young people in the city, overseeing the schools admission process, and insuring that LCC meets all its statutory duties in relation to education.’

Bhogal-welsh leaves Bristol with an average wait time for an EHCNA of 35 weeks (January 2024), with 374 EHCPs exceeding the 20-week timeframe.

She reported to Bristol Schools Forum at the time that they were trying to ensure no assessment goes beyond a year.

She said: ‘As the service sees the continued rise of EHC Needs Assessments in process, there remains a tension between finalising EHC Needs Assessments (within the 20-week timeframe), finalising those already outside 20 weeks (legacy), reducing the number of weeks open for assessments superceding the 20-week timeframe whilst ensuring no assessment supersedes 52 weeks.’

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