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News story LATEST ESFA SENIOR STAFF MOVES An update from Eileen Milner, ESFA chief executive, on senior staff moves in the agency This was published under the 2019 to 2022 Johnson
Conservative government Eileen Milner, chief executive of ESFA, said: > The Department for Education has appointed ESFA’s Director of > Academies and Maintained Schools (AMSD), Mike
Pettifer, as the > Director responsible for overseeing the Department’s COVID-19 > continuing response plan. > > Mike will continue the work he undertook to establish the team
in > March as single accountable Director for the next 18 months. The > role of the team has evolved rapidly over the past few months, and > Mike will lead the transition into a
recovery phase. Mike will > move across to his new role in the coming weeks. > > Mike has over 25 years’ experience working in the FE and skills > sector in teaching, policy
and planning. Currently, Mike is the > Director responsible for funding academies directly as well as the > funding of local authorities to fund maintained schools. > > Warwick
Sharp, Principal Private Secretary to the Secretary of > State, will be moving across to head up ESFA’s Academies and > Maintained Schools Directorate later this summer. > >
Warwick will be taking up a significant part of Mike’s AMSD > portfolio at the start of Summer recess on an acting basis, with a > recruitment process into a permanent position taking
place later in > the year. > > Warwick has over 12 years experience in education strategy and > policy. He is currently responsible for leading Private Office > Directorate,
including the Secretary of State’s immediate Private > Office as well as supporting Ministers, the Permanent Secretary, > Special Advisers and the Board. > > I wish Mike and
Warwick all the very best as they step into their > new roles. SHARE THIS PAGE The following links open in a new tab * Share on Facebook (opens in new tab) * Share on Twitter (opens in
new tab) UPDATES TO THIS PAGE Published 25 June 2020