David Taransaud

UKCP Reg. Psychotherapeutic Counsellor for adolescents.
David has over 20 years’ experience working with challenging youth in the most deprived boroughs in London.
David frequently presents workshops across the UK and abroad on how to connect, empathise and form a genuine working alliance with
troubled and troubling children and young people. David also works as a foreign consultant in Karachi, Pakistan. David independently set up
an Art Therapy service in north Uganda in an orphanage for former child soldiers and young people affected by conflict and trauma.

Paul Whiteman

Paul Whiteman took up the role of general secretary of NAHT in September 2017, bringing with him a wealth of trade union knowledge, as well as hands-on experience of the vast range of challenges faced by school leaders.

Paul joined NAHT in 2012 as director of representation and advice,with overall responsibility for the directorate that provides advice to members on management, legal and employment issues.

Having started out in retail banking, Paul soon got involved in the Banking, Insurance and Finance Union. His enthusiasm for trade unionism grew, and between 2002 and 2012, he held the position of national officer for the FDA civil service trade union.

Born in Croydon, Paul was educated at John Ruskin High School in Croydon.

He completed an MA in industrial relations and employment law at Keele University in 2000.

Paul Gosling

Paul Gosling is head teacher of Exeter Road Community Primary School in Exmouth, Devon.

He has been a member of NAHT since 2004 and a member of National Executive since 2016.He is also branch secretary of Devon branch.

‘In 2019 Paul became a Doctor of Education for his thesis on children’s narrative identities.’

Simon Kidwell

He is branch secretary of NAHT's Cheshire branch

Tim Sherriff

Tim is currently an educational consultant and Ofsted Inspector.
He has spent the last twenty-four years as headteacher of two primary schools, both serving areas of high deprivation in Wigan.
Until August 2022, Tim was Headteacher and Head of Centre at Westfield Community School and Start Well Family Centre in Wigan, which was rated ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted in its two previous Ofsted Inspections.
Tim was accredited as a National Leader of Education and supported many schools in this role.
He was a member of the NAHT’s Commission on Assessment in 2014 and is currently a member of their Assessment and Accountability Group and a Co-opted member of the National Executive’s Primary Sector Council.
In 2018 Tim was a member of the NAHT’s Accountability Commission.
He chairs and speaks at national conferences on assessment, behaviour and attendance.
Recently Tim has delivered training for the DfE on Reducing Teacher Workload.

Dr Mick Walker

Mick holds a PhD in educational assessment from the University of Leeds and degrees at Masters and Bachelor
levels.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Founding Fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching and a Fellow of the CIEA.
He is passionate about education and aligning the aims of national high volume assessment and testing systems with the aims and realities of everyday teaching and learning in schools, colleges and the workplace to benefit society and to support each individual learner to reach their true potential.