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.
ROOM 2
10.30 – 11.20am
COMMUNITY CARE INFORM
Details to follow
11.30am – 12.20pm
To be confirmed
1 - 1.50pm
FOUNDATION FOR PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES
Getting and Keeping Community Connections
Despite numerous books, DVDs, PowerPoint presentations and training manuals about community capacity building, we still hear ‘how can we make it happen?’ This workshop will share learning from the Life in the Community Project and discuss the how to make connections happen for people who have high support needs.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:
- Consider real-life stories of those who have made achieved community capacity building
- Hear about the work of community connectors
- Reflect on how to adopt this approach locally
2 – 2.50pm
To be confirmed
3 - 3.50pm
Supporting Children and Families Impacted by Imprisonment
Details to follow
ROOM 3
10.30 – 11.20am
SOCIAL POLICY RESEARCH UNIT (UNIVERSITY OF YORK) and CARE AND HEALTH SOLUTIONS
Organising Home Care Re-ablement Services for Maximum User Benefit
Many local authorities are transforming in-house home care services to provide intensive, short-term re-ablement instead. This workshop will present evidence from a national evaluation and practice perspective based on a model used in Essex on the best ways to organise home care re-ablement services and the factors that promote successful outcomes for older and disabled service users.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:
- Learn how re-ablement differs from intermediate care and long-term home care
- Reflect on the importance of team organisation, staff training and supervision
- Consider the roles of other professionals in contributing to effective re-ablement services
11.30am – 12.20pm
MENCAP
Getting to Know You: Advocacy for People with Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities
Details to follow
1 – 1.50pm
NATIONAL AUTISTIC SOCIETY
Autism and Ageing
Details to follow
2 - 2.50pm
STOKE ON TRENT CITY COUNCIL (to be confirmed)
What a Difference an Award Makes
3 - 3.50pm
RICHMOND FELLOWSHIP
Mental Health and Job Retention: Practice and the Developing Evidence Base
The influential 2008 Working for a Healthier Tomorrow report has lead to growth in services to help people with mental health problems to stay in work. This workshop will present the growing evidence base, and practical examples of innovative and effective provision from both a client and an employer perspective.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:
- Consider the developing range of job retention models and settings
- Reflect on how the RETAIN model achieves 70% success rate
- Hear a service user experience of using RETAIN and what a successful outcome meant to their recovery
ROOM 4
10.30 – 11.20am
C4EO (to be confirmed)
How to Improve the Lives of Looked-After Children in Your Area
11.30am – 12.20pm
To be confirmed
1 - 1.50pm
NCB AND CHRISTINE BRADLEY CONSULTANTS
Bearing the Unbearable: Responses to Neglect, Abuse and Early Childhoold Trauma
Details to follow
2 -2.50pm
ROYAL COLLEGE OF GENERAL PRACTITIONERS AND THE PRINCESS ROYAL TRUST FOR CARERS
Engaging Primary Care in Carer Support
This workshop will feature new learning from local partnerships, an evidence review and emerging messages from the National Carers Strategy NHS / council partnership demonstrator sites. It will help adult services planners and practitioners to engage Primary Care colleagues more effectively, understanding the health case for carer identification and support.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:
- Reflect on emerging evidence of the impact of partnerships between primary care and community care services
- Consider evidence from a recent literature review on preventative services for carers
- Explore examples and templates of practical tools developed locally in support of the implementation of the National Carers Strategy
3 - 3.50pm
SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE (to be confirmed)
Safeguarding Children of Parents who have Mental Health Difficulties
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.
ROOM 2
10.30 - 11.20am
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH (to be confirmed)
Building Community Capacity and Putting People First: What Councils are doing to Build Social Capital
11.30am - 12.20pm
To be confirmed
1pm - 1.50pm
LONDON CHILDREN'S SAFEGUARDING BOARD
Serious Case Reviews
Details to follow
2 – 2.50pm
To be confirmed
3 -3.50pm
To be confirmed
ROOM 3
10.30 - 11.20am
To be confirmed
11.30am - 12.20pm
COMMISSIONING STREAM (to be confirmed)
1 - 1.50pm
COMMISSIONING STREAM (to be confirmed)
2 - 2.50pm
COMMISSIONING STREAM
OFFICE OF THE NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF LEARNING DISABILITIES (to be confirmed)
Supporting Families Affected by Parental Learning Disability
3 - 3.50pm
To be confirmed
ROOM 4
10.30 - 11.20am
ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL
Three Year Pedagogy Pilot for Looked-After Children
Details to follow
11.30am - 12.20pm
ANN CRAFT TRUST
Forced Marriage of Children and Adults with Learning Disabilities
The forced marriage of children and adults with learning disabilities is, as with many other types of abuse, a largely hidden issue and likely to be vastly under reported. Little data has been collected on prevalence. Nevertheless, the research and official information that is available gives great cause for concern.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:
- Consider why children and adults with learning disabilities are vulnerable to being forced into marriage and why this occurs
- Reflect on the consequences of forced marriage and practice issues
1 - 1.50pm
FAMILY ACTION
Beginning Before Birth: A Better Start for Socially Excluded Women and Their Babies
This workshop will explore a perinatal support service in Southwark that provides intensive support to mothers and their babies throughout pregnancy and the first year of their child’s life. Its aim is to improve both the parent’s mental health and outcomes for their children.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:
- Reflect on how to access socially excluded mothers
- Consider the importance of building healthy attachment between mothers and their babies
- Hear strategies which are effective in supporting mothers and their babies
2 - 2.50m
HALTON BOROUGH COUNCIL
Social Care in a GP Practice
Details to follow
3 - 3.50pm
VOICE AND KIRKLEES COUNCIL
It's My Review: Putting Looked-After Young People at the Heart of Their Review
This workshop will showcase an award-winning project that has achieved success in positively including and engaging young people in care in their review process. It will explore how Kirklees measured a 23 per cent increase in the performance indicators on their looked-after children review attendance within it’s first year following training.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:
- Consider new and innovative ways to include users in care planning processes
- Hear ideas directly from young people about including in them in meetings
- Challenge traditional perceptions of reviews and inclusion
www.voiceyp.org
