Students over 18 only.
The content of the programme is subject to change at short notice. All session places are available on a first come, first served basis. Please ensure you check for updates on a regular basis.
ROOM 2
10.30 - 11.20am
ISLAMIC FOSTERING SERVICE
Fostering Cultural Sensitivity
This workshop will focus on the needs of Muslim children in the care system and why they should, whenever possible, be placed with Muslim foster carers. The aim of this session will be to promote better understanding of the needs of Muslim children and how best to support Muslim foster carers.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:
- Hear an evaluation of the service
- Consider best practice in helping looked-after Muslim children achieve better outcomes
- Learn how best to support Muslim foster carers
11.45am - 12.35pm
CARE SERVICES IMPROVEMENT PARTNERSHIP
Commissioning Integrated Children's Services
This workshop will offer practical case examples of where World Class Commissioning is being developed jointly to enable the delivery of integrated services across health and social care and describe how this can be achieved.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:
- Understand the issues faced in joint commissioning of integrated services
- Understand the principles set out in recent policy documents on joint commissioning
- Consider how these principles can be applied in working towards the delivery of integrated services
12.45 - 1.35pm
CARE SERVICES IMPROVEMENT PARTNERSHIP
Commissioning Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
In the context of World Class Commissioning, this workshop will offer practical case examples of where CAMHS commissioning is working well and why.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:
- Understand the policy context of commissioning for children and young people
- Be able to explore the principles of World Class Commissioning as it relates to children and young people particularly in the context of CAMHS
- Receive practical case examples to take away
1.45 - 2.35pm
CARE SERVICES IMPROVEMENT PARTNERSHIP
Competent Commissioning, Competent Workforce
World Class Commissioning will be a major challenge for commissioners. The focus of this workshop will be the commissioning process, the competences of commissioners themselves and the workforce issues around delivering the services.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:
- Understand the role of the commissioner and the competences required to undertake commissioning
- Explore the workforce and service redesign issues related to commissioning
3 - 3.50pm
FAMILY ACTION
Reaching Out to Families in Need: Working from Children's Centres
This workshop will share information and learning from Family Action's experience of building partnerships with parents who find it difficult to engage with mainstream services. Through interactive discussion and exercise we'll discuss the value of reaching out to parents at early stages of engagement to build sustainable partnerships; what works and the challenges to success.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:
- Understand strategies to deliver successful outreach services to families in need
- Be aware of challenges and successes in working in partnership with parents and other colleagues
CONTACT
PRESENTATION
4 - 4.50pm
BARNARDOS
Disaffection: Building New Solutions to Keeping Young People in Education and Training
The statutory requirement for young people to stay in education or training until 18 will require services to better engage with vulnerable and disaffected young people. Barnardo's will demonstrate how to deliver innovative/ alternative programmes using vocational training and work skills education as the hook to improve outcomes.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:
- Consider policy levers for increasing and improving alternative education and training provision
- Hear how early intervention, sustained investment and a focus on educational and personal achievement reaps boundless rewards
- Learn the importance of a trusted relationship the trainee and the trainer
- Understand the ability of the third sector to link with families, community and statutory services to ensure successful engagement with young people
ROOM 3
10.30 - 11.20am
COMMUNITY CARE INFORM
Using Community Care Inform to Develop Knowledge-Informed Practice
This workshop will give delegates the opportunity to find out how CC Inform - the new online information service from Community Care - can help support children and families practitioners to develop an approach to knowledge-informed practice; help them consider the basis of their decisions and to significantly increase their knowledge base.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:
- Understand more about a knowledge-informed approach to practice
- Consider how they can used trusted sources of information to increase their knowledge base; inform their practice and improve their approach to evidence-based practice
CONTACT
11.45am - 12.35pm
CAFCASS
Peer Mentoring and Young Inspectors Programme
Cafcass are developing services for, and provided by, children and young people. This workshop will introduce delegates to some of the members of the Cafcass Young People's Board and the work that they do. It will include a presentation on peer mentoring and an introduction to our newest project, The Young Inspectors Programme.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:
- Consider how to enable and empower children and young people to find their own solutions through the support of their peers
- Understand how peer mentoring supports the emotional wellbeing of young people
12.45 - 1.35pm
RESPECT
Dad's Space: An Information Resource and 1-2-1 Web Based Contact Service for Dads Who are Separated from Their Children
This workshop will introduce delegates to Dad's Space, paying particular attention to the 1-2-1 web based contact service and its contribution to maintaining and enhancing the father-child relationship. It will explore the Department for Children, Schools and Families' policy documents and highlight existing gaps in child contact services and parenting support for fathers.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:
- Understand the wide-ranging impacts that the father-child relationship has on children
- Consider best practice when ensuring the safety and well-being of the child and resident partner
- Consider how engaging within the context of fathers' lives can contribute to the de-stigmatising of parenting support for Dads
1.45 - 2.35pm
CONWY BOROUGH COUNCIL COUNTY
Delivering the Goods: Staff Support, Coaching and Mentoring Programme
Social Workers should be proud professionals that through training, co-working and support feel valued for their work to keep children safe. This workshop will showcase how supporting staff can lead to a motivated team of Social Workers, who will generate good practice and improve outcomes for the children and families they work with.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:
- Consider how to achieve positive team morale and staff retention
- Learn how Social Workers can be supported in their role
- Hear how reasearch knowledge can be part of everyday practice
CONTACT
PRESENTATION
3 - 3.50pm
HILLCREST CARE
Effective Approaches to Educating Children with Autism
Hillcrest Care are pleased to be running this workshop which will focus on the educational needs of children with autism and how best to respond to them. This is one of the most challenging issues facing the education system and one of the issues facing service providers is how best to introduce models of good practice. This workshop will look in particular at the work of Hillingdon Mannor School that has pioneered one such model.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:
- Hear an evaluation of this service from the founder of the school - Anna Kennedy, a mother of two sons with ASD
- Learn the skill-sets required to support this group of young people and their carers
- Consider a best practice focus on working with children and young people with ASD
4 - 4.50pm
PHOENIX FUTURES
Putting Think Family into Practice
Highlighted as good examples of the whole family approach in the Think Family report from the Families at Risk Review, Phoenix Futures unique Family Service enables parents to tackle their substance misuse issues whilst continuing to live with and care for their children. Find out how we are putting Think Family into practice and reuniting and keeping families together.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:
- Hear how to work holistically with families for best outcomes
- Learn our multi-agency approach to safeguarding children within families where parents substance misuse
ROOM 4
10.30 - 11.20am
STAFFORDSHIRE CHILDREN'S TRUST
The Big Bruvver Project: Engaging with Young People On The Street
This workshop will showcase how this multi-agency project set up a mobile diary room to gauge the views of its local young people, which were then used to inform local policy. The project shows that potentially hard to reach groups are not so; with a little innovation young people are eager to engage
Delegates who attend this workshop will:
- Increase their understanding of legislation surrounding children and young people's involvement
- Understand the importance of children and young people's involvement and the impact it can make on service delivery
- Hear how participation is based on listening to what children and young people really want
- Learn from examples of good practice
- Consider the value of partnership working
CONTACT
PRESENTATION
11.45am - 12.35pm
DEPARTMENT FOR CHILDREN, SCHOOLS AND FAMILIES
Improving Information Sharing and Supporting Integrated Working in the Children's Workforce
This workshop will provide an update on developments on cross-government guidance on information sharing to practitioners working in public sector services. It will also provide progress on tools to support improved integrated working - in particular, ContactPoint.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:
- Have a better understanding of the development of the information sharing guidance and its key principles
- Hear how local and national government is progressing with the implementation of ContactPoint
CONTACT
PRESENTATION
12.45 - 1.35pm
ANN CRAFT TRUST
Safeguarding Disabled Children: Differing Thresholds?
Research demonstrates that disabled children are more vulnerable to all forms of abuse than non-disabled children, yet it also shows that current child protection policies and systems may not offer disabled children the same level of protection as non-disabled peers. This workshop will explore the reasons for this.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:
- Understand why differing thresholds may be put in place for disabled children
- Learn how this impacts on how disabled children are protected from harm
- Consider your own role and responsibility in safeguarding disabled children
CONTACT
PRESENTATION
1.45 - 2.35pm
MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION AND THE PRINCESS ROYAL TRUST FOR CARERS
Young Carers Project: Resilience, Coping Strategies and Cultural Differences in The Perception of the Role of Caring for Parents with a Severe and Enduring Mental Illness
This workshop will explore the position of young carers in the UK, the legislative and policy framework in place for young carers and where the gaps in support and recognition are at present. An introduction and update of the Mental Health Foundation and The Princess Royal Trust for Carers Young Carers Project will be discussed, which focuses on comparing cultural, ethnic, age and gender differences with regard to resilience, coping strategies and perceptions of the role of caring.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:
- Learn more about the revised National Carers Strategy
- Hear about the Mental Health Foundation and The Princess Royal Trust for Carers Young Carers Project focusing on rationale and methodology
- Share views on how to explore the cultural and ethnic differences in the perception of the role of caring in young carers
CONTACT
PRESENTATION
3 - 3.50pm
OFSTED
Safeguarding Children: The Contribution of Ofstedto the Third Joint Chief Inspectors' Safeguards Review 2008
The Safeguards Review found that most children feel safe and are safe in their homes and communities. However, serious concerns persist that some children, including looked-after children, are not well served or properly safeguarded. This workshop will focus on inspection evidence provided by Ofsted on safeguarding outcomes for all children and young people in England.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:
- Understand the impact of changes to the safeguarding framework
- Hear the progress made by public services on their wider safeguarding role
- Learn outcomes for vulnerable groups of children
- Consider the effectiveness of child protection services
CONTACT
PRESENTATION
4 - 4-50pm
SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
Safeguarding Well: An Inter-Agency 'Systems' Model for Case Reviews
SCIE has developed a new model for organisational learning. This session will provide an outline of what this involves. There will be discussion about how this can be used to understand how we are doing in implementing the safeguarding agenda and generate ideas about better supporting frontline workers in these tasks.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:
- Attain a basic understanding of the 'systems' approach to understanding professional practice
- Understand the potential application of this approach to their own practice
- Develop some ideas for improving organisational learning within their own workplace
