 He has been Chair of the Communities Empowerment Network (CEN), an advocacy and campaigning service working for equality and justice in education founded in 1999, and is Chair of Parents and Students Empowerment (PaSE), an organisation devoted to empowering students and parents in schooling and education.He chaired the "Round Table" for the National Union of Teachers (NUT) October 2006/March 2007 and produced "Born to be Great", the NUT's Charter on Promoting the Achievement of Black Caribbean Boys.In 2010 he produced "The Case for a Learners' Charter for Schools", a charter that articulates the educational entitlement of all school students and the rights and responsibilities of everybody engaged in the schooling process – local authorities, school governors, teachers, pupils and parents.