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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.

Colin Forrest

Associate
The Education and Training Foundation           

Colin Forrest was the learning and quality director in a large region with responsibility for the equality and diversity, health safety and safeguarding, learners with learning difficulties and/difficulties and quality improvement teams. In a similar role with LSIS he assisted a full range of providers in sourcing improvement resources. He has kept close to the current equality agenda through his governor experience with a university and the chair of the teaching and learning board of a college for learners with autism. Colin also provides governor support through the AoC’s NSS scheme. Colin holds a doctorate that focussed on the link between inspection and improvement and is an active researcher. 

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. 

Chris Bowles (London)

FE Prevent Co-ordinator           

Chris has a postgraduate education in Middle East Politics and first worked briefly in journalism and the third sector after leaving university. Since 2011 he has worked in local government, starting in economic development and employment and skills support, before later moving to work on the Prevent strategy. He is currently a regional Further and Higher Education Prevent Coordinator for the London area.
 

Hifsa Haroon-Iqbal (Birmingham)

FE Prevent Co-ordinator

Hifsa Haroon-Iqbal works for the Department for Business Innovation and Skills as West Midlands Regional Prevent Lead for Further and Higher Education. She is currently also supporting institutions in the North East region, particularly those in West Yorkshire. Hifsa worked for many years at Staffordshire University, where she completed her Masters in Philosophy before taking up the role of Equality and Diversity Officer and then Stakeholder Engagment Manager. A well known figure nationally Hifsa has been involved in the field of inter faith work for many years and uses her position to raise awareness of and promote equality and diversity across many community groups and professional forums. Hifsa’s publications include ‘The changing spirituality of Muslims dying in the UK: A personal and communal journey’  in Spirituality and End of Life Care Edited by Peter Gilbert (2012), ‘Caring for Elderly Muslims’ in Oxford Handbook of Nursing Older People Edited by Beverley Tabernacle, Marie Barnes and Annette Jinks (2010) and The Absent Minority - Access and Use of Palliative Cancer Services by Black and Minority Ethnic Groups in Leicester  in Nursing Research in Cancer Care Edited by A. Richardson and J. Wilson Barnett (1995). In 2011 Hifsa was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Staffordshire and received an MBE in her Majesty’s New Year’s Honours List for services to community cohesion.