Daljit Kaur

Daljit is Director of Service Development at iCoCo, having joined the Institute at its inception in 2005. Her role is to work with organisations and individuals from all sectors to help provide practical solutions to the Community Cohesion challenges. She has played a key role in many of iCoCo's local reviews, including Oldham, Sandwell, Bolton, Sunderland and the London Boroughs of Hounslow, Waltham Forest and Lambeth. In addition she has undertaken extensive work in relation to elected member development, schools and their duty to promote community cohesion and the mapping of local communities and the development of engagement and participation strategies.

Prior to this Daljit has 20 years work experience in Training and Development, Organisational Development, Human Resources, Equalities and Diversity with Sheffield City Council and 17 years experience of working with the voluntary, community and faith sectors across South Yorkshire.

Daljit was a member of the Cantle Review team in 2001 and was also an integral part of the IDeA's Community Cohesion team working across the country engaged in identifying strategic priorities and action planning for community cohesion. She also assisted in delivering Modern Member modules on community cohesion and leadership. She was also the IDeA's advisor for Beacons on the theme of supporting the Social Care Workforce and was a member part of the team that assessed and advised the ODPM on the Race Equality Beacon's theme.

Her particular interests are in community cohesion, equality and diversity in service areas such as education, employment and housing and in broader areas of social and economic regeneration. She is experienced in community involvement, policy development, service delivery in the area of employment programmes, facilitation and training and development.