My mother, Barbara Conway, who has died aged 94, was a civil servant and a volunteer both at her local church and as a school governor. Unable to take up further education in order to secure the opportunities she wanted in life, she achieved much that paved the way for others to succeed.
A longtime governor at Victoria Church of England infants’ school, in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, Barbara was, for several years in the early 2000s, a member of an independent review panel reassessing decisions to exclude pupils. She was also the chair of a committee reviewing admission refusals for the first choice of school.
