Meet the team

He brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to this role gained with 20 years of experience in education and skills. Prior to joining Busy Bees, Anthony started his career as an apprentice and progressed through training and assessment roles into quality, operational and wider senior roles with three large national training providers across multiple sectors and employer types.

Recently, Anthony had worked for his own consultancy business delivering effective business solutions. Anthony has a proven track record at a strategic and operational level in business transformation, funding, data, audit and programme leadership. His experience also includes being the nominee on several occasions, including a provider assessed as ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted.

Joining Busy Bees in 1989 - when the group consisted of just two nurseries – Clare, along with the founders of Busy Bees, has helped design and implement the people, systems and procedures to enable expansion from 50 employees to over 7,000. Clare has also been instrumental in growth of Training from a department operating with the nursery arm of the business to the independent provider of apprenticeships and CPD courses that it is today.

In addition to overseeing Busy Bees Education and Training, Clare is also responsible for the Talent Academy (TA) which supports the Group’s development of talented, highly motivated and skilled staff to meet its quality and growth aspirations.

She has worked across further, higher and primary education for over 20 years in 
a range of roles including administration, delivery, quality and audit, gaining an Ofsted Grade 1 as part of the apprenticeship and employer management team at Walsall College.

Liz heads up the Date and Information Systems Team who are responsible for ESFA contractual compliance, Ofsted data and compliance, apprenticeship data monitoring and management, internal and external audits, monthly funding 
claim submissions, alongside day to day processing of learner paperwork.

Liz is passionate about further education having been a learner, assessor 
and parent seeing the positive impact apprenticeships in particular can 
bring to individuals and employers.

Before her role as Education and Quality Manager and SENCO, Sam has worked as a Development Coach, AT and IQA.By supporting individuals of all abilities to recall, apply and extend through knowledge, experience and developing new skills the impact of quality education can be seen.

Within her career, Sam has continuity developed her own understanding and enhanced those skills, firmly believing you should never stop learning as life never stops teaching.