Acknowledgements The Department for Education and Skills would like to thank the Learning City Network for its role in the organisation and delivery of the conferences, and the members of the conference steering group for their contributions. The people involved were: Kate Bagshaw, Learning Partnerships Team, DfES Dennis Carrington, Adult and Community Learning Team, DfES Jan Eldred, National Insitute for Adult Continuing Education Pam Flynn, Goverment Office North West Martin Howarth, Adult Basic Skills Strategy Unit, DfES Kate McGimpsey, Adult and Community Learning Team, DfES Andrew MacDonald, Adult and Community Learning Team, DfES Alan Noble, Learning City Network Anna Reisenberger, Learning and Skills Development Agency Karen Shepperson, Learning City Network Susan Smith, Government Office Yorkshire and the Humber Sara Turton, Yorkshire Forward Jonathan Webster, Adult and Community Learning Team, DfES Martin Yarnit, Learning City Network Learning City Network LCN - The Network for Learning Communities LCN - founded in 1995 - is the largest national organisation of its kind in the world with more than 50 affiliates throughout the UK ranging in size from Birmingham to Great Yarmouth. Membership is open to learning partnerships representing towns, cities, counties and regions.LCN - a company limited by guarantee and a charity - is run by its members through a Board of Directors which each year elects a Chair and Deputy Chair. Its Mission Learning communities - whatever their size - use learning to understand and adapt to change and to enable their citizens to shape the future. Learning communities work together to strengthen their capacity to deal with change and to share best practice. LCN exists to promote learning communities and to support them to collaborate effectively to achieve their objectives. For further information about Learning City Network, please contact Karen Shepperson, Learning City Network Secretariat, 111 Grantham Road, Bingham, Nottingham NG13 8DF Tel: 01949 878118; Fax: 01949 831 171; E-mail: lc-network@ntlworld.com.

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