13 & 14 MAY 2009 • BUSINESS DESIGN CENTRE, ISLINGTON, LONDON

PLENARY SESSIONS

Floorplan

 

DAY ONE PROGRAMME DETAILS (13 May 2009)


AUDITORIUM

10 – 10.30am
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
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10.45am – 12pm

COM CARE CAMPAIGN
Stand Up Now for Social Work: Revealing the Best and Worst Media Coverage of Social Work Community Care’s Stand Up Now campaign is calling for fair, accurate and balanced coverage of social work in the media. We have been analysing media coverage and in this session we reveal some of the trends we spotted. We will also invite the reporters behind the best stories to accept awards, and denounce the worst coverage. Join us for the action!

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12.15 - 1.30pm
PERSONALISATION: THE SAME FOR EVERYONE?
Experts from central government to the frontline discuss whether the revolution in adult services will offer the same opportunity for all client groups. For people working with adults, re-designing services to put the service user in charge of their care will fundamentally change the role of social workers. This session looks at what the changes mean for service users and social workers in the future. Speakers:

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2 - 3.30pm
TRANSITION SERVICES: ARE WE GETTING IT RIGHT FOR YOUNG, DISABLED PEOPLE?
Between the ages of 14 and 25 young people usually have to make important decisions about their future. For young people with a physical or learning disability it can be a confusing and complicated time, as they often receive support from a number of different agencies and will transfer to adult services. What mechanisms should be in place to support the needs of these young people, while ensuring a smooth transition to adult services?

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4 - 5.30pm
QUESTION TIME
Hosted by Jeremy Vine, Broadcaster and Journalist

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ROOM 1
10.30am – 12pm
VALUING PEOPLE NOW: A THREE-YEAR FORECAST ON THE LIVES OF PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES
The three-year strategy for improving the lives of people with learning disabilities was published in January. Four months on we look at what it hopes to deliver and what progress has been made so far. Our speakers look at key issues affecting the lives of people with learning disabilities including healthcare and employment, outlining the opportunities for change and some of the challenges ahead.

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12.30 – 2pm
THE CHILDREN’S PLAN AND TACKLING DISADVANTAGE
The Children’s Plan, launched by the government in December 2007, aims to improve children’s wellbeing in every aspect of their lives. This session will look at the plan’s initiatives across education, health and social care and the new inspection system for measuring them. It will also ask what it means to be a child growing up today, particularly in a disadvantaged family.

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 2.30 – 4pm
CAN THE NATIONAL DEMENTIA STRATEGY TRANSFORM LIVES?
Dementia care is where cancer care was 50 years ago with help unavailable until crisis point. The National Dementia Strategy for England is intended to transform the quality of care, with early diagnosis and an expansion in the number of specialists in hospitals and care homes central to the policy. But will it work?

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DAY TWO PROGRAMME DETAILS (14 May 2009)

AUDITORIUM

10 – 10.30am
Keynote Address:


10.45am – 12pm
ACHIEVING BEST PRACTICE IN CHILD PROTECTION:
AN ASSESSMENT OF CURRENT PRACTICE AND THE LESSONS THAT CAN BE LEARNT FROM THE DEATH OF BABY P
In November 2008 two men were convicted of causing or allowing the death of Baby P, including his step-father. At the time of his death the baby had more than 50 injuries and had been seen 60 times by agencies including social workers from Haringey Council. This session will look at the flaws in child protection social work uncovered by the case and analyse the government’s plans on how to address them.

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12.30 - 1.45pm
ADULT SOCIAL CARE: THE FUTURE
The care needs of older people are rapidly overtaking the funding available to pay for them. The government’s response to the emergency is expected shortly in a green paper, but what should be in it? Two things are certain: Personalisation will be the name of the game and more people will be supported to live at home, so what does this mean for the workforce?

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2.15 - 3.45pm
RISK FACTOR - LIVE!
WORKING WITH DISGUISED COMPLIANCE AND INTIMIDATION IN CHILD PROTECTION
Child protection social workers work hard to protect children but may face a myriad of smokescreens from families in the course of doing so. Recent high-profile cases have exposed the difficulties professionals face when dealing with disguised compliance and intimidation to successfully protect children at risk. This interactive session will draw from real-life experiences and audience-led enactment to provide child protection professionals with insight to help them manage these complexities.

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ROOM 1

10.45 – 11.45am
PERSONALISATION: WHERE NEXT FOR INDIVIDUAL BUDGETS?
Individual budgets (IBs) are a vital component of government policy to promote flexibility, personalised services for people who require social care support. But what impact will IBs have on carers and do older people want them? How far can the NHS be involved in IBs, given that health care is free at the point of delivery? And where do people with complex needs fit into the picture?

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12 - 1pm


IMPROVING THE IMAGE OF SOCIAL WORK: A PR MASTERCLASS BY MAX CLIFFORD
Cases like the Baby P case in Haringey have created a poor public perception of the overall contribution of social care and its professionals, despite the excellent and unsung work that many social workers do. Hear Max Clifford provide a proactive overview of how to handle PR when confronted with crises to encourage support from the public and to defend and boost a demoralised workforce.

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1.30 - 2.45pm
A NEW STRATEGY FOR MENTAL HEALTH: REPLACING THE NATIONAL SERVICE FRAMEWORK
Mental health policy in England has reached a turning point with the expiry of the national service framework later this year. What kind of strategy should replace the NSF, and which priorities should it focus on to deliver significant, long-term improvements for service users?

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Speaker Biographies
 

SAGHIR ALAM is a leading expert in human rights and diversity issues especially in the area of multiple identities. He is member of Statutory Committee of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission. He is also member of Equality 2025 and Chair of United Kingdom BME Council, Patron of Include Me Too a national children, families and carers charity and the Ethnic Disabled Children Society.

SUBE BANERJEE is Professor of Mental Health and Ageing at King’s College London, and co-lead for the Department of Health’s National Dementia Strategy. He is Clinical Director of old age psychiatry at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and directs the Croydon Memory Service to improve diagnosis and treatment of dementia.

 

DAVID BEHAN was appointed Director-General, Social Care in the Department of Health in 2006. From November 2003 he was the first Chief Inspector of the Commission for Social Care Inspection. From 1996 to 2003 Behan was Director of Social Services, London Borough of Greenwich. In 2003 he was the President of the Association of Directors of Social Services.

PETER BERESFORD is Professor of Social Policy at Brunel University and Chair of Shaping Our Lives. He is a Trustee of the Social Care Institute for Excellence, a member of the Advisory Board of the National Institute for Health Research and a member of the steering group of the National Skills Academy for Social Care. He is co-author of Transforming Social Care: changing the future together (2009).

RODNEY BICKERSTAFFE is Professor of Social Policy at Brunel University and Chair of Shaping Our Lives. He is a Trustee of the Social Care Institute for Excellence, a member of the Advisory Board of the National Institute for Health Research and a member of the steering group of the National Skills Academy for Social Care. He is co-author of Transforming Social Care: changing the future together (2009).

 


JOHN BOLTON is the Director of Strategic Finance at the Department of Health, responsible for social care. His responsibilities include chairing the Transformation of Social Care Programme Board – leading the delivery of Putting People First and taking an overview of the use of resources in social care.
 

CYNTHIA BOWER is Chief Executive of the Care Quality Commission. She began her professional life in social care and spent a number of years working in a variety of settings and managing social care services for children. She moved to the health service in 1995 in various roles, before becoming Chief Executive of NHS West Midlands in 2006.

RAY BRAITHWAITE was the lead trainer in Community Care’s “No Fear” campaign (1999) to reduce aggression towards social care staff. His books include Managing Aggression (Taylor and Francis 2001) and Stress at Work and How to Reduce It – a Manager’s Guide (Pavilion 2007). Last year he produced a DVD, Teach Yourself Breakaway Skills.
www.aggressionstresstraining.co.uk

KIM BROMLEY-DERRY is Executive Director of Children and Young People’s Services at the London Borough of Newham and President of the Association of Directors of Children’s Services. In 1981, he started work as a residential social worker in a children’s home before working in a range of local government settings in children’s and adults’ services at operational and strategic management level.

RUTH CARTWRIGHT qualified as a social worker in 1986 and has worked with all service user groups, including as an Approved Social Worker. She has worked in social care staff development as trainer, lecturer and manager. Before becoming a BASW staff member, she was manager of a hospital social work team.



MAX CLIFFORD has been in the public relations business for well over 40 years. In the past 20 he has become increasingly involved with many of the major front-page stories in the British press. He now regularly breaks stories and stops stories in between orchestrating PR campaigns for a multitude of clients from all over the world. He is patron of two children’s charities and helps to fund-raise and support many others.

CHRIS CLOKE’s responsibilities at the NSPCC include awareness campaigns, influencing professionals, the promotion of diversity, and publishing. He has worked closely on the NSPCC’s Full Stop Campaign. From 1994-96 he was seconded from the NSPCC to run the National Commission of Inquiry into the Prevention of Child Abuse.

 

SOPHIE CORLETT is Director of External Relations at Mind, a major campaigning charity on mental health in England and Wales. She is responsible for Mind’s policy and campaigning, media, communications and legal and information services. She represents Mind on several national committees and boards.

 

SIMON COWDRY has been teaching in south London schools for more than 30 years. He is Associate Head of The Saint Thomas the Apostle College in Peckham, south-east London. He is a strong believer that the contract between parents, pupils and school is a three-way link and the time the school spends trying to sort out difficulties is time well spent.

DR GILLIAN DALLEY is Chief Executive of the Relatives and Residents Association, a national charity that champions the wellbeing of older people in residential care. A social scientist with an interest in policy relating to the care of older people, she was responsible in 1999 for the first draft of the national minimum standards for care homes, Fit for the Future.

CHRISTINE DAVIES was appointed Chief Executive of the Centre for Excellence and Outcomes in Children and Young People’s Services (C4EO) in June 2008. C4EO aims to identify, co-ordinate and disseminate “what works”, in order to improve the outcomes of children, young people and their families – realising the potential of Every Child Matters.

JILL DAVIES joined the Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities seven years ago. Most of her work has related to the mental health needs of young people with learning disabilities. She has worked with people with learning disabilities for more than 20 years, and developed one of the UK’s first family support services for children with autism. 

STEPHANIE DE LA HAYE is Acting Chair of Business Boosters Network Community Interest Company. She is also a freelance trainer and consultant, delivering in mental health and wellbeing, with 25 years’ health sector experience. De la Haye is committed to improving the image of mental health and supporting service users to fulfil their potential.
 
PERDEEP GILL is an independent social care trainer and consultant. She also provides specialist advice on safeguarding cases involving ethnic minorities and Local Safeguarding Children Board development. Gill graduated with a social work qualification in 1990 and is a child protection adviser to BME voluntary and faith groups.

 

MARK GOLDRING joined Mencap as Chief Executive in November 2008. Mencap is the leading UK charity for people with a learning disability and their families. Before that, Goldring was chief executive at VSO. He has also chaired the board of Revolving Doors, which works with people with mental health problems in contact with the criminal justice system.

ANNA GUPTA is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Royal Holloway, where she is the Programme Director for the post-qualifying childcare courses. Gupta’s research interests include reflective practice in the family courts, work with ethnic minority children and families, and permanency planning and contact.

 

MELANIE HENWOOD is an independent health and social care consultant. She is a lay member and Vice-chair of the General Social Care Council; a specialist adviser to the House of Commons Health Select Committee; and Chair of the Advisory Board on Independent Living to the MS Society.

 

JOAN HUMBLE graduated from Lancaster University with a BA Honours Degree in History.  She went on to become a County Councillor for Lancashire from 1985-1997 including seven years as Chair of Lancashire Social Services from 1990-1997.  She also worked for the Department of Social Security as a Civil Servant and later the Inland Revenue. She is President of Blackpool Advocacy, a charity providing advice and a voice for those unable to speak for themselves because of disability or disadvantage. At Westminster, Joan is a Member of the Work and Pensions Select Committee and is also Chair of several All-Party Parliamentary Groups including Social Care, and Childcare;  and is Vice-Chair of the APPG on Autism, amongst others.

JEFF JEROME has recently commenced as National Director for Social Care Transformation, having been Director of Adult and Community Services at the London Borough of Richmond for the past seven years. The new role promotes the personalisation agenda for social care.


 

DAVID N JONES qualified as a social worker in 1974 and soon specialised in child protection. In 2004 he was seconded to the government’s Children and Young People’s Unit to work on performance management and continued as an adviser on Every Child Matters. In February 2009, he was appointed Deputy Director (Children) in the new Ofsted. He is also President of the International Federation of Social Workers.

JULIE JONES has been Chief Executive of the Social Care Institute for Excellence since July 2007. Previously, she was Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Children’s Services at Westminster Council where she had also been Director of Social Services. In 2003 she was awarded an OBE for services to social care.   

JOHN KNIGHT is Assistant Director of Policy and Campaigns at Leonard Cheshire Disability. He was on the steering group of the Treasury’s Cross-Cutting Review of the Voluntary and Community Sector and Convenor of the Voluntary Organisations Disability Group. He is a member of the Third Sector Advisory Board at the Cabinet Office. 

RICHARD LAWRENCE joined Mencap as a Spokesperson and Research Assistant in July 2008 in the Chief Executive’s office. He speaks at events and conferences to share his experiences of having a learning disability and is an important part of the team, giving his views on how things affect his everyday life. 


 
DANIEL LOMBARD is a Senior Reporter at Community Care, specialising in mental health and children’s social care. His interest in social care began while working as a support worker in children’s homes and homeless hostels. He spent eight months in the sector before moving into provincial newspaper journalism in 2005.

 

DR IAN McPHERSON is Director of the National Mental Health Development Unit. This requires providing strategic leadership and managing the central team and national programme leads to ensure NMHDU builds effective partnership working with the Department of Health, other government departments, regional government offices and strategic health authorities.

MARY MAGUIRE is Unison’s Head of Press and Broadcasting, a post she has held since 1999. A journalist of 30 years’ standing, Maguire has worked as a press officer for the past 20. Unison is the UK’s largest public sector union with 1.3m members, 300,000 of whom work in social care.


 

EMMA MAIER is Deputy Editor of Community Care. She has previously specialised in voluntary sector journalism and has worked as deputy, news, online and features editor at Third Sector, a news title for the charity sector. She is co-author of The Good Giving Guide: a supporter’s guide to charities and campaigning.

 

JILL MANTHORPE is Professor of Social Work and Director of the Social Care Workforce Research Unit at King’s College London. She has a long-standing interest in mental health and well-being and co-authored the Department of Health training materials on the Mental Capacity Act. Manthorpe was a member of the independent team on the individual budgets pilots.


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.

PIPPA MURRAY is founder and Chief Executive of IBK Initiatives – a research, training and development agency supporting the inclusion of disabled children, young people and their families.

COLIN NASH qualified as a social worker in 1997, having already spent 13 years in social care. In 2002 he joined Rethink where his posts included Practice Development Manager and National Quality Manager. He returned to practice in 2007 and now manages a Community Mental Health Team in Somerset while practising as an Approved Mental Health Professional.

CLIVE NEWTON is National Development Manager, Health and Social Care, for Age Concern and Help the Aged, where his role is to support service delivery by the hundreds of local Age Concerns. He has worked in health and social care for more than 35 years.


 

JENNY OWEN is the Executive Director of Adults, Health and Community Wellbeing at Essex County Council, responsible for Adult Social Care, Adult Community Learning and Libraries. She is President of Association of Directors of Adult Social Services and co-chaired the National Dementia Strategy and is a Trustee of the Social Care Institute for Excellence.

BOB REITEMEIER has been Chief Executive of The Children’s Society for seven years after joining the charity in 1998 as Operations Director. During his time he commissioned The Good Childhood Inquiry, an independent assessment of childhood today. Before joining The Children’s Society, Reitemeier built up more than 20 years’ experience in the voluntary sector, mostly in Africa.

CAROLINE SIMPSON joined the Family Nurse Partnership central team in 2008, having been involved at the beginning of the project in her previous role as Professional Adviser Maternity and Family Health in the Department of Health, a post she had held since 2006. Previously, Simpson was the Local Supervising Authority Midwifery Officer for Thames Valley and Hampshire and Isle of Wight Strategic Health Authorities.

SIR ROGER SINGLETON is the first chairman of the Independent Safeguarding Authority, a non-departmental public body to help protect children and vulnerable adults. He is a government adviser; a consultant in charity governance and management and the former chief executive of Barnardo’s.

ANNIE STEVENSON is Head of Older People’s Services at the Social Care Institute for Excellence. Her social work background is in various settings, with all user groups. She has experience of all sectors in social care plus roles in contracting and housing provision. Campaigning with Help the Aged was her last position before joining Scie.



 
JEREMY VINE established himself as a charming but tough-talking presenter on BBC2’s Newsnight. 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.

 

ALAN WALKER is Professor of Social Policy and Social Gerontology at the University of Sheffield. He is Director of the New Dynamics of Ageing Programme and the European Research Area in Ageing, and chairs the Amsterdam-based European Foundation on Social Quality. He has a variety of research interests, contributing more than 200 reports and publishing 20 books. Walker was co-founder of the Disability Alliance in 1974 and is Patron of the National Pensioners Convention. 
 
RICHARD WEST – a black British deaf person with a learning disability – works as a consultant for Inspired Services and is co-chair of National Advisory Group on Learning Disability and Ethnicity. His interests include making information easier, carers with a learning disability, accessible transport, music and drama. He follows these through in practical work and also at a national policy level. West works as a self-advocate around the country and has had a huge impact on services and government policy.

ANNE WILLIAMS took over the post of National Director for Learning Disabilities with the Department of Health in October 2008. She was extensively involvMAMaMAGUIREed in the development of Valuing People Now and one of her key responsibilities is to lead its delivery. Williams has more than 30 years’ experience in social care in the NHS, voluntary sector and local authorities.

DR KAREN WINDLE is Senior Research Fellow at the Personal Social Services Research Unit at the University of Kent. Her research activities are primarily in the older people, systemic reorganisation and social care fields, focusing particularly on policy analysis and practice. She leads the National Evaluation of Partnerships for Older People Projects.

 

SUE WOOLMORE’s post with the NSPCC is designed to maximise the contribution the charity can make to safeguarding children through its membership on Local Safeguarding Children Boards. Woolmore is also an independent chair of an LSCB. Before her present role, she worked to raise the awareness and capacity of a variety of audiences to contribute to safeguarding children. These included politicians, professionals and young people themselves.

 

 

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