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Local Power and Adult Learning
What can adult learning do for local government?
| Date: | Monday 1 December 2008 |
| Venue: | Glaziers Hall, 9 Montague Close, London Bridge, London SE1 9DD |
| Ref: | C1745 |
| Fee*: | £250 Private, public and statutory sectors £150 Local Authorities, VCS and NIACE members Free places for Honorary Life Members of NIACE (Includes lunch, tea/coffee.) NB: NIACE does not charge VAT on conference and course fees |
[Background] [Objectives] [Aims] [Audience] [Programme] [Application Form]
Background
NIACE has been in the forefront of work to win an understanding that there’s much more to adult learning than day or evening classes. The transformational power of learning is increasingly recognised as an important ingredient in a host of policy agendas. This conference will explore the added value that adult learning can bring to local policy, the partnerships that can be made, and will look at how policy makers and practitioners can work together. It will also look at how adult learning can be placed in councils' community strategies, in Local and Multi-Area Agreements, and in the work of the Local Strategic Partnerships.
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Objectives
The conference will include:
 | perspectives from government and opposition speakers on the role of local government and adult learning |
| views from the Local Government Association (LGA) and Local Authorities on the role adult learning can play and the support needed to add maximum value |
| examples of good practice in a variety of local government functional areas |
| opportunities for discussion, questions and networking |
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Aims
This conference will explore how adult learning can support and extend the work of local authorities in developing vibrant, economically successful and socially inclusive communities for the twenty first century and how government systems might provide a framework for successful joining of learning and local government agendas at a time of system change.
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Audience
The event will be of interest to local government policy makers, adult education providers, those engaged in government agencies with a role in adult learning and senior practitioners.
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Programme
| 10:00 | Arrival and registration (tea/coffee available) |
| 10:30 | Welcome and introduction to the day from the Chair Chair: Sue Meyer, Deputy Director, NIACE |
| 10:40 | Keynote addresses:
Local Agendas and Adult Learning
Local Agendas and Adult Learning
Local Government and Adult Learning Priorities and Needs
Regeneration and Adult Learning
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| 12:40 | Lunch |
| 13:30 | Informal Adult Learning: planning and funding
Katherine Cowell, Deputy Director, Workforce, Quality, ESOL and IAL, Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills |
| 13:50 | Questions from the floor |
| 14:00 | Putting it all together
Councillor John Merry, Leader of Salford City Council |
| 14:20 | Questions and round table discussion: local government and adult learning across contexts – planning and funding, regeneration, arts and culture, social care, children and young people, sustainability and well-being |
| 15:00 | Future scoping: The Inquiry into the Future for Lifelong Learning and the place of the local Professor Bob Fryer CBE, Chief Learning Advisor, Skills for Health |
| 15:30 | Close of conference (tea/coffee available) |
This programme is correct at the time of going to press. The organisers reserve the right to make changes to the published programme in the event of one or more of the advertised speakers being unable to attend. Delegates will have no claim against NIACE in respect of such changes.
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Application Form
(For people not using the online reservation system above.)
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Download Application Form for this event (PDF file) Tip: to save ink, don't print the cover page |
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When you have printed out the Application Form, please complete the relevant sections on pages 7 & 8 and post them along with your purchase order (1) and/or cheque to: Gurjit Kaur, NIACE, 20 Princess Road West, Leicester, LE1 6TP or Fax it on 0116 254 8368. Please retain pages numbered 2 -6 for your information. For further information (or if you would like to be sent a paper version of the application form) please contact Gurjit Kaur, Tel: 0116 204 2833, email: gurjit.kaur@niace.org.uk stating your full postal address. (1) Application Forms from individuals must be
accompanied by a Sterling cheque or Banker's draft. Invoices will be raised on
organisations only if a Purchase Order is sent along with the Application Form.
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