Workshop Facilitators

Selina Stewart - Event Chair

Associate & Prevent Lead
The Education and Training Foundation
             
Selina Stewart is an associate with the Education and Training Foundation leading on the Prevent duty. She has developed the content of the Prevent for FE and Training website and led on the development of the Prevent online training modules. She is currently developing a further Prevent duty support package for the sector.

Selina’s background is in teaching in inner-city Birmingham. Much of her career was spent at Joseph Chamberlain, an inner-city sixth form college. She has also managed adult and community provision. She has extensive experience of working in partnership with a wide range of small and medium sized businesses and charities.

Alex Miles

Performance, Contracts & Business Improvement Manager
WYLP    

Alex has worked in the FE Sector for over 10 years managing multiple Government funded contracts and is a senior manager at West Yorkshire Learning Providers Ltd (WYLP).

Alex is responsible for the overall operational management, quality improvement, contract management and business improvement for WYLP and the delivery partners who subcontract for the provisions of Apprenticeships & Traineeships.

Alex is the Safeguarding & Prevent designated officer, as well as the Ofsted nominee, and provides mentoring & consultancy support for both subcontractors and the wider network of providers in Yorkshire.   Alex is a member of the national Prevent Pilot group and is regularly completing provider health checks & risk assessments on Safeguarding & Prevent.

Alex is a registered mentor on the ELMAG leadership network and is a registered member of the ‘inspiring futures’ and ‘inspiring women’ programme. 

Kat Cooper

FE Prevent Co-Ordinator
          
After graduating, Kat worked for the Open University in the North West with roles in student registration and learner support where she specialised in support for students with disabilities and additional requirements. She then went on to complete the National Graduate Development Programme for Local Government, based at the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, which included a broad range of operational and strategic roles in housing, heritage democracy and community safety. Going on to specialise in community safety and specifically Prevent, Kat started this role supporting Higher and Further Education on Prevent related issues in January 2013.

Kat has an undergraduate degree from the University of Leeds and a postgraduate diploma in Local Government Management from the University of Warwick.