email: neil@neilfletcher.org.uk
Neil has been working as a consultant in the post-school education and training sector since 2003.  From 2006 to 2008 he was appointed by the Mayor as an adviser to his London Skills and Employment Board (LSEB) and was closely involved in the preparation of the Skills Strategy for London – published May 2008. He has always been keenly interested in the 14 -19 sector, closely involved in developing the 14-19 Diplomas, and has worked with local authorities, schools, colleges and national bodies (he is an Associate with the Learning and Skills Network – LSN) building the local systems for delivering the enhanced curriculum for young people up to the age of 19. Among his current  clients are the Royal Institute for Public Administration (RIPA) for whom he has worked on capacity-building (Botswana, and in 2010 the government of Libya). Also Birkbeck College (Business Relations Unit) and various local government national bodies.
Between 1998 and 2003 he was Head of Education and Lifelong Learning at the Local Government Association (LGA) and before that was education chief at NALGO and UNISON. For 11 years Neil was an elected member of the Inner London Education Authority (ILEA), chair of Further and Higher Education for 6 years and Leader of ILEA from 1987 until 1990. During these years he was prominent in many national education capacities. He was also for 8 years a councillor (for a time Deputy Leader) in the London Borough of Camden. He has taught in secondary schools and in FE. He has been a governor of the LSE, chair of governors at the City Literary Institute, and is perhaps proudest of his role in creating through a seven-college merger the London Institute – which later became the University of the Arts London.
