The Department for Education (DfE) has appointed four new non-executive board members to serve for the next three years. Naomi Eisenstadt, Steve Crocker, Rebecca George and Margaret Casely-Hayford It comes after Sir Kevan Collins was appointed lead non-executive board member last month. He had served on the board since Labour鈥檚 election in July. The DfE鈥檚 board is chaired by education secretary Bridget Phillipson and 鈥渟upported鈥� by the lead member and other directors and senior civil servants. Its main responsibilities are to provide 鈥渟trategic and operational leadership to the department鈥�, to scrutinise the delivery and performance of policy and to 鈥渃hallenge the department and its senior officials on how well it is achieving its鈥痮bjectives鈥�. Remuneration is 拢15,000 per annum per non-executive board member for an estimated time commitment of 24 days per year. Appointees include trustee of Collins’s former charity Eisenstadt is chair of the NHS Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board and an adviser to the Social Mobility Commission. She is also a trustee of the Education Endowment Foundation, which Collins used to run, and an adviser to the Sutton Trust. She is a Labour member, and served the Blair government as the first director of the DfE鈥檚 Sure Start Unit and as chief adviser on children’s services. Steve Crocker is an improvement adviser to Bristol and Oxfordshire councils and runs his own consultancy. He also mentors the Isle of Wight鈥檚 director of children鈥檚 services. He chairs the DfE鈥檚 SEND change programme advisory group. Rebecca George was a managing partner at Deloitte who now serves as a non-executive director of the Metropolitan Police as a member and past president of BCS, the Chartered Institute of IT. Margaret Casely-Hayford is a non-executive director of the Co-op group, on the advisory boards of SquarePeg and a patron of Leathersellers鈥� Academy Schools. She used to be chancellor of Coventry University. She is also a member of the Co-operative Party, which has an electoral pact with the Labour Party. Phillipson said she was “welcome our four new non-executive directors. “Their collective experience brings renewed vigour to our mission to break down the barriers to opportunity.” She also thanked outgoing non-executive directors Toby Peyton-Jones and Jack Boyer “for their dedication and service. Their contributions have been instrumental in supporting the department, and we are grateful for their commitment.鈥�