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 the growth of Busy Bees Education and Training operating from the nursery arm of the business to the independent provider of apprenticeships and CPD courses that it is today.

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.

Samantha began her career with Busy Bees in 2008, providing education to Children within Nurseries. Over the course of her career, she has progressed within various management roles transferring to Busy Bees Education and Training in 2016 securing a position delivering apprenticeships in Childcare and Management. Over the span of several years Samantha gained experience developing her skills set leading in roles and departments across Operations and Quality.

In October 2020 Samantha became our Head of Operations, leading the Operations team, responsible for delivering over 19 apprenticeships across England and Scotland. Samantha has a passion for seeing other excel and exceed their own boundaries/abilities.