Andrew Warren has been named as the new regional schools commissioner for the West Midlands.

He is currently the chair of the Teaching Schools Council and executive director of Manor Teaching School in Wolverhampton.

He is taking over from Christine Quinn, who will retire at the end of the year.

Mr Warren said: “I have been a headteacher and system leader in this region since 1994 and I am really looking forward to working with my RSC team and school leaders to ensure that every child goes to a great school.

Every child ‘should go to a great school’

“That was my aim as a teacher, a headteacher, chair of the Teaching Schools Council, and now soon to be RSC.”

He will oversee more than 1,000 academies and free schools across the region.

Mr Warren is a former primary school head, who led three different schools over a 17-year period, and set up the Britannia Teaching School Alliance in Stoke-on-Trent, which worked with over 100 schools.

He also has experience working in local government, having been seconded for a year to work for Stoke-on-Trent City Council as an assistant director in the children and young people’s directorate.