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Staff available for media comment
Below is a list of Skills - Third Sector team members who are available for media comment.
For media enquiries contact Deborah Hyde email communications or call 07956 320 486.
Jane Slowey CBE
chair
Jane Slowey is chief executive of the Foyer Federation. She has extensive experience of the third sector and of government at all levels, and has contributed to development of public policy right across government. She is actively involved in the development of new arrangements for commissioning and funding learning and skills for young people and adults, and is helping develop the Third Sector National Learning Alliance, which will provide a voice for not-for-profit learning providers.
In 2008, Jane was invited by the Housing Minister to chair a working group to explore the role of Incentives and Obligations in tackling worklessness among social housing tenants. Among the many other roles she has fulfilled, Jane was Vice Chair of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations for six years; spent eight years as an elected city councillor in Birmingham and was a member of the City Strategic Partnership. She was awarded the CBE for services to disadvantaged young people in the 2009 Queen’s Birthday Honours list.
Keith Mogford - interim chief executive
Keith has a wealth of experience both in the skills world and also the third sector. His previous role was Director of Stakeholder Engagement at National Open College Network (NOCN), a national awarding organisation with a long tradition of working in partnership with a wide range of third sector organisations in developing flexible qualifications. Prior to that Keith was CEO at OCN Eastern Region. He has worked with Skills - Third Sector and previously UK Workforce Hub in the development of qualifications, and in addition had involvement with Lifelong Learning UK (LLUK) in relation to community development qualifications. He was for three years a member of the National Programme Board for Foundation Learning.