Roy Blatchford CBE is founder of Blinks Education working with schools, local authorities, academy trusts, colleges and universities in the UK and internationally. He was Founding Director of the National Education Trust and served as Her Majesty’s Inspector of Schools (HMI) in England, with national responsibilities for school improvement and for the inspection of outstanding schools. Roy has extensive experience of writing inspection frameworks, nationally and internationally, and has inspected and reviewed over 1,000 schools and colleges in Europe, USA, Middle East and India.