Amelia is Assistant Director for Education Partnerships and Skills at Somerset County Council, where she has responsibility for school improvement, traded services for schools locally and sub-regionally, education system development (including school place planning) and early years improvement and sufficiency.
She has previously acted as Director of Strategy in a national multi-academy trust, worked with thinktanks on education (CST) and local government (LGiU) as well as previous central and local government policy roles, and led on research and evaluation for Ofsted, where she led the research and devised the 'intent, implementation and impact' model underpinning the latest inspection framework.