Peter Lavender is the Deputy Chief Executive at NIACE where he has worked since 1999. He has been a Further Education inspector, an advisor to the committee of inquiry into provision for students with learning difficulties and/or disabilities and is one of the authors of the report Inclusive Learning (HMSO, 1996). Peter has also worked as a school teacher, a county adult basic skills coordinator and as a senior member of staff in the Norfolk Adult Education Service, managing literacy, language and numeracy programmes for adults. Peter was a member of the LSC’s Equality and Diversity Committee (chairing the disability committee), a college governor at Leicester College for six years (vice chair of the quality, curriculum and standards committee), and a Board member of the Basic Skills Agency. He is a Board member of the UK Commission for UNESCO and chairs the Education Committee. For ten years Peter has been a research supervisor for the Open University’s Ed D programme. He has a doctorate in applied research in education from the University of East Anglia and an honours degree in education. He received an OBE for services to education in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2006.
John will provide a brief historical outline of ACE’s previous funding crises and consider what we can learn from this history. He will discuss what can be done to re-gain ground and in particular, the role research can play in this strategy.
The Eastside Project is a community development project involving over 400 households on the eastern side of Masterton. The project was a Council initiative with Wairarapa REAP contracted to lead the project. It has involved extensive community consultation, identification of community needs and a range of actions including the development of a community house.
The Aranui community trust is a community development organisation that has been in the Aranui community for 10 years. This workshop will provide a brief introduction to the way the Trust approaches community development and how it uses the process of partnership and other approaches to achieve the community identified goals.
Dale Williams is a trade certified motorcycle engineer, businessman and local body politician. He began his involvement in local politics in 1995 on the Otorohanga Community Board and District Council and was elected Mayor in 2004.
Dale has initiated a unique apprentice support scheme and ten other youth initiatives in Otorohanga consistently achieving the lowest registered youth unemployment statistics of all authorities in New Zealand.
He is passionate about working collaboratively with his community to create successful pathways for young people from school to work.