The National Youth Agency - Education and Training Standards Committee

Education and Training Standards Committee

The ETS Committee is made up of volunteer representatives from a wide range of youth work roles and organisational backgrounds.

The ETS Committee members chair the professional validation panels that review and inspect the universities and colleges of higher education that offer youth work programmes. The Committee members meet three times a year to discuss the outcomes of this professional validation work, the professional validation of vocational qualifications and the quality assurance of all qualifications. The Committee also considers contemporary developments in the youth work field and issues affecting youth work education and training. The ETS Committee offers policy guidance and advice to the youth work field on all matters relating to youth work education and training.

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The current membership of the ETS Committee is:

2 members of the Executive Board (to act as Chair and Vice-Chair)

Mike Counsell
Helen Dye

14 members

1 from Community and Youth Workers Union (CYWU)

Dave Ireland: Training and Cirriculum Support Manager Cornwall

1 from Federation of Community Work Training Groups (FCWTG)

Lorraine Grey: Liverpool John Moores University

1 from JNC Employers' side

Allison Wheeler: Principal Negotiating Officer JNC

1 from JNC Staff side

Doug Nichols: CYWU

1 from National Association of Youth and Community Education Officers (NAYCEO)

Keith Raynor Lunn: NAYCEO

2 from National Council for Voluntary Youth Services (NCVYS)

Mary McGinty: Spectrum
Paul Adams: Universityof East London

1 from Regional Youth Work Advisers Group

Miriam Jackson: Regional Youth Work Advisor

1 from Association of Principal Youth and Community Officers (APYCO)

Sushilla Khoot: Head of Youth Service, London Borough of Newham

2 from Training Agencies Group (TAG)

Mary Tyler: DeMontfort University
Janet Batsleer: Manchester Metropolitan University

1 from Awarding Bodies Forum

Gill Mason, City and Guilds

1 from Sector Skills Council

Maureen O'Mara, LLUK

1 member from Unison

Tim Price: Member of Unison National Forum for Y&C Workers

5 members from the wider field of youth and community work and who have a contribution to make to the education and training of youth and community workers at a national level.

Wal Warmington: Consultant
Graham Griffiths: Bradford College
Carol Bull: Consultant
Stephen Peck: The Scout Association
Mary McLoughlin: Principal Training Officer St Helens College

3 Co-optees to be determined by the Committee.

Gill Millar: Regional Youth Work Advisor, Learning South West

+ Assessor(s) and Observer(s) -non voting members

Stella Butler (for information only): Ofsted