Gill Jones MBE

Gill Jones is currently working for Busy Bees Nurseries, as their international quality lead. Gill started her career over 40 years ago as a teacher in Essex, moving to Wirral following her marriage and shortly after becoming an advisory teacher for music at the start of the National Curriculum. She was promoted to deputy head and later to headteacher of several primary schools. She worked for the National College of School Leadership (NCSL) as a network lead, training headteachers and as an assessor for the NPQH and other leadership programmes. She joined Ofsted in 2007 as one of His Majesty’s Inspectors. She became the Deputy Director for Early Years in 2012. She was responsible for several of Ofsted’s good practice surveys, such as ‘Teaching and Play, a Balancing Act’, ‘Destined to Disadvantage’ and ‘Bold Beginnings’. In recent years, she was the responsible director for schools and early education. She led on the importance of early reading, as well as leading Ofsted’s curriculum u