ECA executive committee

In my former life, I was an information specialist in museums! I gave that up after my youngest child was born and started clerking in 2005. Being one of those sad people that love documentation, I found that I really enjoyed clerking and regarded it as a natural extension of my previous experience. In 2007 I undertook and achieved the Clerks’ BTEC award. I now clerk for two schools and serve as Board Secretary for the Billericay Community Trust.

I've worked in local government for many years, first with Essex County Council and then, until retirement in May 2009, with Thurrock Council, where I was Governor Support Officer. I have a passionate belief in the stakeholder model of governance and the important work that governors - and clerks - do. I have been Clerk to Governing Bodies for more years than I care to remember - including for a period before the 1988 Educations Reform Act! - and at the end of my service with Thurrock was Clerk to five Governing Bodies and two IEBs (Interim Executive Boards).

Chris Kitchin – West Area Representative and Acting Treasurer (Spring 2010)

I joined the Essex Clerking Agency about 2 years ago having worked as a teacher and lecturer before setting up my own educational consultancy. I continue to work for an Examination Body as an External Verifier/Writer and Trainer. I currently clerk for about 12 schools and would be happy to be "shadowed" by a new Clerk.

I started clerking the committees at a special needs school in Bocking in 2004, then became the Clerk to the Governors at a Braintree Secondary school in 2008. I am now clerk at a fantastic special needs school in Chelmsford. In 2007 I undertook and achieved the Clerks' Btec Award. I have clerked more permanent exclusions than is decent, but am lucky enough not to have had to clerk a staff disciplinary hearing! I am looking forward to working on the ECA Executive, representing colleagues in Mid Essex.