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Toby Salt, Deputy Chief Executive and Strategic Director

Toby Salt

Toby is responsible for NCSL's Primary and Secondary Strategic Initiatives; E-learning including NCSL's online communities; Stakeholders and School Networks; and Marketing and Communications.

He was formerly the executive head of a federation of two West Sussex schools. For the last three and a half years he has also been a director at the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) Innovation Unit.

Toby is a founder member of the governing council of NCSL and an invited representative on a range of Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) reference/working groups. He is also a governor of Chichester College and a member of a number of educational and national policy think tanks. Toby has held a variety of school and community leadership roles over the past 20 years. He has worked across the age phases and in a wide range of mainstream and specialist educational settings. He has a BEd (Hons) as well as a Masters in Education.

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