Former Department for Education special adviser Mark Lehain has been named as head of education at the Centre for Policy Studies think tank.
Lehain, a former head of the New Schools Network and the founder of Bedford Free School, was appointed as a policy SpAd at the DfE last October by then education secretary Nadhim Zahawi.
He remained in-post under Michelle Donelan and then James Cleverly over the summer.
But he was replaced last month by former Downing Street education adviser Rory Gribbell after Kit Malthouse became education secretary.
