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Thinking and Acting Strategically:
The Strategic Role of Local Authority Adult Learning
| Date: | Tuesday, 10 December 2002 |
| Venue: | Tower Thistle Hotel, Tower Hill, London |
| Ref: | C9-52/12/02 |
| Fee: | £200 per delegate £125 for each additional delegate from each organisation (All fees include lunch, teas and coffee) |
[Background ] [Aims] [Audience] [Programme]
Background
Local authorities have at least two roles in relation to adult learning. The first role relates to securing the provision of a wide range of adult and community learning opportunities for their residents. This may be through directly running an adult and community learning service or by commissioning such provision from others. The second role is more strategic. It relates to thinking and acting strategically. Within the local authority, this means thinking about how learning can be woven through other wider social policy commitments of the authority. Outside the local authority, it means ensuring that local residents really are well served by the education and training opportunities available to them in the area.
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Aims
This conference aims to:
 | enhance awareness of the importance of strategic thinking and action, |
| update knowledge of key social policy objectives in which local authority adult learning has a part to play, |
| strengthen understanding of how local authority adult learning can contribute to these policies, |
| develop, through discussion, shared guidance on thinking strategically when acting on them. |
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Audience
This event would be of interest to all those who are keen to see vibrant local authorities underpinned by a commitment to building a culture of learning. This might include:
| local authority adult learning managers and officers, |
| local authority officers from all departments, |
| local authority elected members, |
| chief executives and members of the senior management team in local authorities, |
| Learning and Skills Council officers and managers interested in the contribution local authorities can make to their agendas, and managers of Learning Partnerships. |
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Programme
| 10:00 | Arrival and registration
(Tea/Coffee available) Chair for the day: Ian Mearns, Deputy Leader, Gateshead Council |
| 10:30 | Welcome and Introduction Alan Tuckett, Director, NIACE |
| 10:40 | Thinking and Acting
Strategically Kevin Ford, FPM (Ford Partnership Management), Leicester |
| 11:00 | Group Discussion |
| 11:30 | Local Authorities and Basic
Skills Susan Pember, Director, ABSSU, DfES |
| 11:50 | Group Discussion |
| 12:20 | Lunch |
| 13:10 | Adult Learning and
Neighbourhood Renewal Neighbourhood Renewal Unit, ODPM |
| 13:30 | Group Discussion |
| 14:00 | Adult Learning and Cultural
Development David McNulty, Assistant Director, Lifelong Learning Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council (to be confirmed) |
| 14:20 | Group Discussion |
| 14:50 | Panel
Discussion Chaired by Alan Tuckett, Director, NIACE |
| 15:20 | Adult
Learning and
Renewing Democracy Ivan Lewis MP, Minister for Adult Learning and Skills |
| 15:45 | Closing
Comments Tony Belmega, Assistant Director, Policy and Development and Head of Adult and Community Learning, Learning and Skills Council |
| 16:00 | Close of Conference (Tea/Coffee available) |
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