To consider, through consultation and research, the particular basic skills needs of adults who do not speak English as their first language and to make proposals as to how those needs can best be met as an integral strand of the national adult basic skills strategy
| Chairman |
| Derek Grover |
Director Skills and Lifelong
Learning, DfEE |
| Members |
| Jaz Banghar |
Basic Skills Agency |
| Denise Bearchell |
DfEE (Standards, Quality and
Access Division) |
| Paul Jackson |
DfEE (Schools Inclusion Division) |
| Liz Lawson |
Lead Development Adviser for
Basic Skills and ESOL, Further Education Development Agency |
| Annie Merton |
Development Officer, NIACE |
| Lynette Oliphant |
Curriculum Manager ESOL, City
& Islington College |
| Chris Taylor-Ozgen |
Education and Training Manager,
Refugee Council |
| Dr Philida
Schellekens |
Consultant |
| Mary Simpson |
Croydon Community
Education Service |
| Margaret Siudek |
Croydon College and National Association
for Teachers of English and Community Languages |
| Helen Sunderland |
London Language and
Literacy Unit |
| Jane Ward |
Manchester Adult
Education Service |
| Meena Wood |
Head of Continuing
and Adult Education, Southwark College |
| Secretary |
| Martin Norfield |
DfEE (Adult Basic
Skills ) |
