Background
Jeffery (son of George Herbert Jeffery and Margaret née Thornton) was educated at King"s School, Canterbury, before going up to Jesus College, Cambridge.
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Tom Jeffery
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Education
He graduated from Cambridge with the degree of Master of Arts, before further attending the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham.
Career
He served as Acting Permanent Secretary on several occasions, notably for 3 months from December 2011 to March 2012. Jeffery joined the Civil Service in 1981 in the Department of Education and Science (Data Encryption Standard) and was promoted up the grades. In 1998 he was appointed Head of Children Services at the Department of Health, where he served until his appointment as Director of the Children & Families Group at DfES in 2001.
He was Director-General of Children Young People & Families at the Department for Education from 2003 until 2011.
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Nationality
British