Anthony Benedict Email & Phone Number

I have been a qualified teacher for 26 years. I started my career as an English teacher. I have worked in five different authorities and held senior roles, predominantly in secondary education, in six different schools. As Deputy Head Teacher, Standards and Effectiveness, I was a key player in moving my school from requires improvement to outstanding in just five years. As Executive Head Teacher of Tameside Pupil Referral Service, I have moved the service from Requires Improvement to good in eighteen months. In 2022 I completed a diploma in trauma and mental health and gained practitioner status. I completed the National Professional Qualification in Executive Leadership in May 2023.A quarter of my current role is to reduce permanent exclusion across Tameside. I chair and lead the headteacher's exclusion group and have created an innovative outreach programme which focuses on a proactive, relational approach. I am developing a ‘relational inclusion’ approach encompassing ACES, Trauma, Attachment and Emotion Coaching. I am a member of the Violence Reduction Unit steering group for Greater Manchester and the Greater Manchester Trauma and Attachment working party. Instead of responding to symptoms, I am passionate about gaining an understanding of the root cause of some of the issues young people and their communities face.

Listed skills include Teaching, Curriculum Development, Public Speaking, Educational Leadership, and 5 others.