Trustee
Trustee (Interim Chair 12.07.2023 – 12.2.25 / Chair from 17.7.19 – 19.1.22)
On Governance Committee since 17.1.2018
Also serves on the following Committees:
- Autism Initiatives Group Main Board of Trustees
- Autism Initiatives UK Main Board of Trustees
- Autism Initiatives Ireland Main Board of Trustees
- Autism Ventures Main Board of Trustees
- Autism Initiatives Group: Board of Trustees Nominations Committee
- Autism Initiatives UK: Board of Trustees Audit Sub Committee
- Autism Initiatives Ireland: Board of Trustees Audit Sub-Committee
- Autism Initiatives UK: Board of Trustees Scottish Committee
No relevant business interests
No relationship with any members of school staff.
- Meeting attendance 2022/23 2 out of 4 full meetings (apologies) + 1 Extraordinary Meeting
- Meeting attendance 2023/24 4 out of 4 full meetings + 1 SDP meeting
- Meeting Attendance 2024/25 4 out of 4 + 1 SDP meeting
Liza’s Profile
In the mid-1990s I was employed by Sefton Council as the manager of Sefton Resource Centre for Children with Disabilities. The Centre had a growing number of children with different diagnoses which included the phrase “autistic tendencies”. So I decided to form a support group specifically for their parents. I was helped in this by the Liverpool and Lancashire Autistic Society (LALAS), later to become Autism Initiatives (AI). We realised the mutual advantages for both organisations and I was invited to join the board of Autism Initiatives in 1998. It was through these meetings that I first met Andy Grainger, involved on behalf of LALAS, and formed a friendship and close working relationship that has lasted to this day.
As part of my Autism Initiatives role, I have been on the Peterhouse Governance Committee for many years and been the Chair for two periods. (October 2007 to September 2014 & July 2019 to October 2021), also Interim Chair since July 2023.
In 2004 I moved, within Sefton Council, from an operation role (Resource Centre manager) to a more strategic role covering the wider area of social care and education. I retired in 2010.
Since retirement I have devoted more time and energy to Autism Initiatives where I am currently vice chair of the board of trustees. Like so many retirees I don’t know how I ever had time for a full time job.
In day-to-day matters everyone knows me as “Liza”, but for more formal situations I revert to “Elizabeth Slater BA; BSc (Hons)”.
