The Secretariat
The secretariat of the authority prepares information for the board and ensures that decisions of board members are acted upon. We are working closely with the newly-established Data Service in administering the specification and publication of standards.
The information authority secretariat:
- Una Bennett, Head of the information authority
- Anne Fessi, Community and Stakeholder Manager
- Peter Ashton, Quality and Standards Manager
- David Briggs, Change Manager
- Paul Kelman, Change Manager
- Lisa Macdougall, Project Coordinator - Data Collection
- Sarah Williams, Data Collection Co-ordinator
- Sharon King, Data Development Co-Ordinator
- Stephie Brook, Project Support Officer
- Helen Karabatos - PA to Una and Team Administrator
The duties of the secretariat are to:
- Assess new requests for data and balance need against burden before making recommendations to the information authority board.
- Receive representations from further education organisations on the practicality and workability of standards, collection and dissemination processes.
- Publish and promote all of the standards agreed by the information authority board.
- Support the information authority board in communicating decisions.
- Work with the Information Standards Board on common standards.
