Anntoinette Bramble trained as a teacher, beginning her career in 2006 and later becoming a deputy head. Elected to Hackney Council in 2010, she was appointed deputy mayor for the London borough in 2016. In July, Bramble replaced fellow Labour councillor Richard Watts as chair of the Local Government Association's (LGA) children and young people board.
As a teacher, are you concerned about councils' waning influence on schools?
Local authorities' education role is diminishing, but they still have responsibility for the education of the most vulnerable children.
Off-rolling is a concern and many LGA members have mentioned that. The LGA wants to work with the Department for Education to better understand informal exclusions and how we monitor it - we don't know how often it is happening, which is the real challenge.
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