Clare Wilson LL.B (hons) Lond, QTLS, MSET, CIPP/E, CIPM, former senior leader and teacher. Clare’s background as a DPO, an author, senior examiner, teacher trainer and teacher of law, makes her uniquely placed to manage a team committed supporting management and governance in education.

Education Data Hub began in 2017 with one person whose job was to assess what support Derbyshire schools needed to help them comply with the new GDPR. The answer was a lot!  So the service formed starting with 30 pilot schools. Our team of qualified Data Protection Officers has grown to support to more than 360 schools, academies and Trusts nationally.

During this work the DPOs noticed many schools needed help assessing and understanding their cyber security requirements. So the Cyber Security Service was born.  This team quickly achieved recognition for its pioneering work alongside the DfE, the National Cyber Security Centre and IASME, supporting schools nationwide in achieving cyber resilience.  The Cyber Ready Project now supports around 400 schools to meet the DfE Cyber Security Standards.

Education Data Hub provides schools and trusts with a complete information governance and security offering, under the vision …“to enable schools to become secure, efficient, and trusted handlers of information”.

Elliott is responsible for all matters regarding Information Security, Cyber Security and Data Protection across ParentPay Group globally. He has 20 years of experience, with a background in technology architecture, infrastructure, networking, technical project management, penetration testing and incident response.

Elliott is driven by his passion for all things InfoSec, protecting ParentPay Group, their people, and their customers from the rapidly-evolving cyber threat landscape and the ever-growing breadth and depth of skills and knowledge required to do so.

James Garnett is Director of IT at United Learning, a Multi-Academy Trust of over ninety academies and independent schools. He was the programme lead for the EdTech Demonstrator Delivery Partner,  managing the EdTech Demonstrator programme on behalf of the Department for Education from April 2021 until September 2022.

He began his career in education as a teacher of maths 25 years ago before moving on to lead on IT, EdTech and systems in schools and then for United Learning. He leads United Learning’s Group Digital Strategy (focusing on narrowing the digital divide) and how technology can amplify the processes of teaching and learning. He has responsibility for Information and Cyber Security and sits on United Learning’s Carbon Neutral Board and Information Governance Committee.

James was appointed a Trustee of Sheffield Theatres in 2021 and more recently as a Trustee of Apps For Good. In January 2024 James leaves United Learning to pursue a long held desire to take his experience of working at the largest MAT and share it with the wider education community as a consultant. His focus will be, unsurprisingly, cyber security, information governance, digital strategy and, preparing for and managing growth.