Few people have made a greater impact on Catholic education in the United Kingdom than Jane Heffernan. With almost 25 years of experience in senior leadership positions at Catholic schools, she has served as either headteacher or executive headteacher in all the Catholic secondary schools across the London boroughs of Hackney and Islington, and she has been instrumental in preventing the closure of two of them.
While saving Catholic schools from closure is laudable in itself, it is also crucial for their continuation, as current government legislation prevents new Catholic schools from opening. Without Heffernan’s intervention, thousands of children in London would have been denied access to a Catholic education.
