All of the Officers of LEAF are working lecturers, as is every member of LEAF's National Council.   LEAF has worked very hard to preserve and enhance its members rights and has done so in a variety of ways:   Political campaigns in the United Kingdom and in Europe concerning abuses to lecturers in Further Education.   Evidence to the Select Committee of the House of Commons (Education & Employment)   Efforts to get key issues affecting lecturers raised in Parliament. John Cryer's two parliamentary adjournment debates on Further Education are examples of LEAF's influence in this respect.   LEAF's efforts to draw attention to the behaviour of Roger Ward of the CEF/AOC were significant in his removal. It is a little known fact that John Cryer MP (Hornchurch), whose Parliamentary debate was instrumental in bringing Ward before the Select Committee, shares his constituency with Havering College! LEAF had many meetings with John Cryer at the House of Commons on these matters.   LEAF's Memorandum on the Crisis in Further Education published in the House of Commons Report of the Select Committee - Vol 2.   Questions tabled in the House of Commons and in the European Parliament concerning the use of agency employers in the sector.   Consultations with the DTI on the use and abuse of agencies.   Letters to the DTI concerning the White Paper 'Fairness at Work'.   Consultations with David Forrester, the Director of Further Education, (Baroness Blackstone's Chief Adviser). Pay and conditions matters.   Meetings with Bryan Davies, now Lord Davies of the FEFC.   Interventions by way of case work and attendance at grievance, disciplinary and dismissal hearings.   Tribunal cases involving, dismissal, redundancy, indirect discrimination, the transfer regulations and agencies.   We had one of our members reinstated under his previous terms and conditions when he refused to join an agency and was dismissed by Carshalton College. The College also paid him compensation. Around sixty other staff, who were not members of LEAF, had signed up with the agency concerned.   LEAF are currently fighting a case on behalf of our members who were employed in a prestigious London Art School. They were dismissed after many years of service with the School, in our view wrongfully and unfairly. A tribunal on this matter is set for March. The advice from our lawyers is that we have a very good case.   Day to day support for our members, access to legal advice, and much more.     Return to top of Page