The State Government is reviewing high profile board positions held by two senior Education and Child Development bureaucrats who lost their jobs last week in the wake of the Debelle inquiry.

Deputy chief executive Gino DeGennaro resigned last week and the chief executive of the Office of Non-Government Schools, Jan Andrews, also left the department after chief executive Tony Harrison decided against renewing her contract.

However, the pair have broader roles in government which are now under the microscope.

DeGennaro is the Chair of the State Procurement Board, while Andrews is on the board of the children’s performing arts company, Windmill Theatre, and is also a representative on the boards of the Australian Children’s Television Association and Government Skills Australia.

A spokesperson for Education Minister Jennifer Rankine said the pair’s board and committee membership would cease where DeGennaro or Andrews were departmental representatives.

“The remaining board memberships will be resolved over the coming weeks,” the spokesperson said.

InDaily can also reveal that both bureaucrats were promoted by Weatherill when he was Education Minister.

It’s well known that DeGennaro was elevated by Weatherill to acting chief executive after Weatherill removed chief executive Chris Robinson in 2010.

Less well known is that Andrews was given her latest position in the department at the specific request of Weatherill when he was Education Minister in 2011.

In a circular to departmental staff on 1 August 2011, then chief executive Keith Bartley said that Andrews had been appointed to the position “at the request of the Minister for Education, the Hon. Jay Weatherill”.

In the circular Bartley also praised Andrews’ performance in her previous role as a departmental deputy chief executive in charge of schools and children’s services.

“In the short time that I have worked with Jan, I have valued greatly her support as a colleague,” he wrote. “She has led the development of our school improvement and accountability framework and has established successfully our regional strategy…”

When Weatherill announced Bartley as Robinson’s permanent replacement in February 2011, he told Parliament he was pleased with DeGennaro’s performance in the acting role.

“… I would also like to acknowledge the excellent work of the Acting Chief Executive, Gino DeGennaro, and express my appreciation for him agreeing to continue in that role until Keith commences,” Weatherill said.

Last week, Education Department chief executive Tony Harrison said he did not want DeGennaro or Andrews in his leadership team.

“… I don’t believe I was in a position to have those two members a part of my senior executive group moving into the future based on my assessment of their individual involvement with the Debelle matter, but also more broadly in relation to them performing the roles as senior people in the organisation,” Harrison told journalists.

DeGennaro resigned after discussions with Harrison about the Debelle inquiry, and Harrison decided not to renew Andrews’ contract as chief executive of the Office of Non-Government Schools and Services.

Justice Bruce Debelle criticised DeGennaro in his royal commission report for failing to tell Weatherill, at a meeting between the two in December 2010, about the arrest of an after-school hours care worker for the sexual assault of a child. His conclusion was the Department “failed in its duty to it minister”.

Andrews was described by Debelle as “the person with the ultimate responsibility for the management of critical incidents at schools”, and was the author of an email to Weatherill’s staff describing the arrest of an out of school hours worker for “sexual behaviour” with children.

Debelle found that Weatherill’s staff did not pass on the contents of the email to the minister.