Disability Services Commission - Parliament of Western Australia

1.2.2 Corporate Executive continued
Executive Director, Service Contracting
and Development
Mr Peter Batini has worked at the Commission for
27 years. Peter has served as Regional Director of the
Commission’s South West and North Metropolitan
regions and has been Chief Clinical Psychologist.
Since 2000, he has contributed to the Commission’s
work on contract planning, contract formation, contract management, quality
assurance and the development of human services. A Master in Psychology, Peter
also has completed the Public Sector Management Office Executive Development
Year (1990), is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and in 1994,
completed a Churchill Fellowship in de-institutionalisation and
community-based housing.
Executive Director, Statewide Specialist
Services
Ms Susan Peden has extensive experience in the
disability sectors in Western Australia and Britain.
Susan holds a Bachelor of Arts and is a licentiate of
the College of Speech Therapy. Susan has been the
Commission’s Principal Speech Pathologist, a Local
Area Coordinator and Manager of Disability Professional Services where she developed
evidence-based services that are both person and family centred. Sue is editor of the
magazine, ‘Intellectual Disability, Australasia’, a former President of the Australasian
Society for Intellectual Disability and currently, Chairperson for the Consultative
Committee for Edith Cowan University’s Department of Occupational Therapy.
18