Ealing schools finance team update

There have been a number of recent changes to the Ealing schools accountancy team.

Sailesh Patel recently joined Ealing as schools finance manager. He has worked at several local authorities over 23 years and spent the last 14 years or so in education.

Finance team contact numbers

Here are Sailesh’s current team and their contact numbers:

• Nathan Nye - 020 8825 8212
• Lorna Brown - 020 8825 8519
• Sailesh Patel - 020 8825 9927
• Kim Byrant - 020 8825 6567
• Ryan Whitley - 020 8825 8102

Russell Dyer, the assistant director of accountancy has also left the council and been replaced by Ruth Hodson as an interim. Like Sailesh, she has lots of experience across several local authorities over the last 20 years.

Sad news

Unfortunately we also have some sad new to share that Stephen Bell who left Ealing in December 2023 sadly passed away in May of this year.