Quintin Peppiatt

Quintin Peppiatt
quintin.peppiatt@newham.gov.uk
020 8471 8751

My work as a parish priest living and working in East Ham gives me a daily insight into the lives of vast variety of people in my local community. I regularly visit  local schools, meet with the safer neighbourhood team and local residents groups to discuss issues in the East Ham area. It is through my interaction with local people that I believe I can effectively represent them as a councillor.                 

I believe that education and employment gives us choices in life and a means of reducing poverty within communities. My belief in the value of education has led me to be involved in children’s services since being elected onto the council in 1997. I am now Lead member for Children’s Services and Chair of Newham’s Children’s Trust.

I am also:

• Chair the Governing Body at Vicarage Primary School. I regularly take assemblies in school and am involved in using £8 million pounds to expand and improve the facilities in the school over the next few years.
  
• On the Governing Body of Langdon Secondary School
  
• On the governing body of Newham College for Further Education which with the secondary schools has introduced the most successful diploma programme for 14-19 years olds in the country. 

Yet the achievement of the Labour Party of which I am the most proud is the investment in Early Years. I have chaired the Early and Childcare Development Partnership for the past ten years. We have enabled the creation of over 4000 childcare places in a variety of early years’ settings.  We have built 20 Children’s Centres across the borough.