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Education and Children’s Services e-newsletter
Welcome to our first electronic newsletter of 2018. I hope that you had a good Christmas and New Year
While our work on behalf of members in Education and Children’s Services (ECS) slows down over Christmas, it has picked up apace since with reps and full-time officers supporting members through individual casework, consultations and campaigning.
Since we last sent communications we held a highly successful Biennial General Meeting and Professional Seminar for members in Bristol where a new Group Executive Council (GEC) was elected.
It was great to see an influx of new members to reinforce the work of existing stalwarts, and the GEC will be meeting to agree it’s strategic plan of activity for the Group shortly.
If you have any queries or feedback, don't hesitate to let me know.
Kind regards
Steve Thomas
Prospect National Secretary
Your new GEC
Prospect’s ECS Group and officers will continue to focus on that casework, consultation and campaigning I mentioned earlier, but also consider how we support the growing number of independent members and non-members working as non-teaching professionals in ECS.
Your new GEC is
- Jill De Paolis (President)
- Paul Watson (Vice President)
- Niki Elliott (Vice President)
- Diana Robinson
- Liam Kernan
- Maria Marsh
- Mark Patton
- Sara Griffiths
- Vinod Hallan
- Peter McAllister
- Tommy Doherty
- Sean Maguire
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