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He was the first in his extended family to go into higher education. He attended the College of St Paul and St Mary in Cheltenham, after which he qualified with a BEd. degree with honours. He won a distinction for his teaching in his final year. He gained a Master of Arts degree in Education (management) at The Open University and a Professional certificate in teaching mathematics at Leicester University.

He has an extensive and wide-ranging teaching career. He taught in a secondary school in East Sussex teaching English as a foreign language; a middle school in West Sussex; a junior school in Grantham and a primary school in Melton Mowbray. He moved to Manchester in 1996 as a deputy and then as a headteacher of a primary school in Middleton.

He is a qualified external assessor and external advisor. He was a team leader marking mathematics SATs and was a Lincolnshire lead for Year 6/7 transition.

For 11 years, Allan was one of Her Majesty’s Inspectors. At Ofsted, he was the regional lead for initial teacher education, the regional lead trainer and the national trainer for equality and diversity.

For two years, he was the regional director for a large MAT responsible for all of the academies in the north region, and Trust-wide responsibility for EYFS and pupil premium.

From 2020 for two terms, he worked as a Manchester LA quality assurance professional and senior advisor.

From 2021 he has worked as a QAS professional for Liverpool, Wirral and Manchester LA. He is free-lance education consultant and works with individual schools, MATs and Local Authorities including Bury and Manchester.