PLENARY SESSIONS
DAY ONE PROGRAMME DETAILS (18 May 2010)
Programme details are subject to change at short notice. Please check the web site regularly for updates. All sessions are available on a first come, first served basis. Students over 18 only.
AUDITORIUM
10 – 11.30am
KEYNOTE DEBATE
IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SOCIAL WORK REFORM BOARD
Speakers to be confirmed
12 – 1.30pm
DEMENTIA
Speakers to be confirmed
2 - 3.30pm
MANAGING INCREASING REFERALS: IDENTIFYING THE MOST SERIOUS CHASES IN CHILD PROTECTION
Speakers to be confirmed
4 - 5.30pm
QUESTION TIME
Hosted by Jeremy Vine, Broadcaster and Journalist
Panel Members:
- Shaun Bailey, Managing Director, My Generation
- Hilton Dawson, Chief Executive, BASW
- Perdeep Gill, Social Care Consultant, ADITI Consultancy and Training
- Simon Heng, service user and Community Care columnist
- Bronagh Miskelly, Group Editor, Community Care
- Joanna Nicolas,Child Protection Consultant, Trainer and Social Worker
- Jean Stogdon, Chair and Co-Founder, Grandparents Plus
ROOM 1
10.30am – 12pm
NEW HORIZONS
Speakers to be confirmed.
12.30 – 2pm
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
Speakers to be confirmed.
2.30 – 4pm
THE ROLE OF SOCIAL CAPITAL IN THE TRANSFORMATION OF ADULT SOCIAL CARE
Speakers to be confirmed.
DAY TWO PROGRAMME DETAILS (19 May 2010)
Programme details are subject to change at short notice. Please check the web site regularly for updates. All sessions are available on a first come, first served basis. Students over 18 only.
AUDITORIUM
10 – 10.30am
Keynote Address
Speaker to be confirmed.
10.45am – 12pm
WHEN SHOULD CHILDREN BE REMOVED? LINKS WITH NEGLECT AND THRESHOLDS FOR CHARE
Speakers to be confirmed.
12.30 - 1.45pm
NOT SECRETS REVIEW
Speakers to be confirmed.
2.15 - 3.45pm
RISK FACTOR - LIVE!
Speakers to be confirmed.
ROOM 1
10.30 – 11.45am
WHAT NEXT FOR CARER SUPPORT? ACHIEVING THE OUTCOMES IN THE CARERS STRATEGY
Speakers to be confirmed.
12.15 - 1.15pm
SOCIAL WORK REFORM BOARD: STRUCTURED SPECIALIST DEVELOPMENT
Speakers to be confirmed.
1.45 - 3pm
CHILDREN LEAVING CARE: THE CHALLENGE OF IMPLEMENTING NEW GUIDANCE
Speakers to be confirmed.
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES
SHAUN BAILEY is managing director of My Generation, a registered charity set up to address the social problems that affect young people and their families, including antisocial behaviour, drug use, crime, teen pregnancy, educational under-achievement and unemployment. He is the author of No-Man’s Land, a pamphlet analysing the social crisis afflicting our inner cities,
www.mygeneration.org.uk
HILTON DAWSON has been chief executive of BASW since May 2009. He had 15 years’ social work experience with Lancashire County Council and has worked for ChildLine and as chief executive of Shaftesbury Young People in the voluntary sector. A qualified social worker for almost 30 years, Hilton has been actively involved in politics for much of this time and was Labour MP for Lancaster & Wyre from 1997 until standing down in 2005.
www.basw.co.uk
PERDEEP GILL qualified as a social worker 20 years ago and is now an independent safeguarding advisor and consultant. She also provides specialist advice on safeguarding cases involving ethnic minorities and Local Safeguarding Children Board development. Gill is a child protection advisor to BME voluntary and faith groups as well as to the Metropolitan Police.
SIMON HENG became a wheelchair user 14 years ago following a rare spinal disorder. He has been active in promoting service user involvement and disability issues for the past 12 years, and was the chair of the Worcestershire Association of Service for 10 years. His involvement has included training with social and health care workers, and teaching health and social care students. This included many years as the service user representative on Worcestershire's Vulnerable Adults Protection Committee (now the Worcestershire Safeguarding Adults Committee). Heng writes a fortnightly column in Community Care magazine, highlighting disability and service user issues. In November 2005, he was awarded an honorary MA for his services to the community, by the University of Worcester.
BRONAGH MISKELLY is the group editor of Community Care. She has previously edited GP newspaper for several years as well as Medeconomics and Enterprise magazines. Miskelly, who started her working life as a community relations youth worker in Belfast, has also worked on both sides of the camera in television production.
www.communitycare.co.uk
JOANNA NICOLAS qualified as a social worker in 1995 and was employed in the statutory sector until 2008. She now works independently, consults on child protection, policy and procedures and undertakes serious case reviews. Nicolas delivers safeguarding training on behalf of her Local Safeguarding Children Board, as well as in the independent sector.
www.joannanicolas.co.uk
JEAN STOGDON is 81. She qualified as a social worker in 1971 and is still registered with GSCC. Stogdon spent most of her career in front line services (Camden) - both as a social worker and manager - and was a Children’s Guardian for ten years. In 1999 she travelled to the USA on a Winston Churchill Fellowship to study issue around grandparents and kinship care. In 2001 she co-founded Grandparents Plus with Michael Young to promote the role of grandparents and the value to children of the extended family. Grandparents Plus also trains professionals and offers consultation to childrens services on kinship care. Jean has been a mother for 58 years and a grandmother for 28 years.
JEREMY VINE established himself as a charming but tough-talking presenter on BBC2’s ewsnight. He now presents the daily lunchtime show on Radio 2 and fronts Panorama. On television, Jeremy has taken over Peter Snow’s Swingometer for all BBC election coverage. Other credits include The Politics Show.
