14TH & 15TH MAY 2008 • BUSINESS DESIGN CENTRE, ISLINGTON, LONDON

PLENARY SESSIONS

Floorplan

 

DAY ONE PROGRAMME DETAILS
(Wednesday 14 May 2008)

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.

 

AUDITORIUM
10 – 10.30am

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

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10.45am – 12pm
THE PERSONALISATION REVOLUTION
Personalisation is probably the greatest revolution in how service will be provided since the beginning of the welfare state. But what will it mean in practice and can a change in users' lives match the idealistic rhetorical match?

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12.15 - 1.30pm
GANG WARFARE OR A WAR ON GANGS?
Too many approaches to teenage gangs are based on punative measures that only alienate young people further and that speak about what they must not do, rather than offer the alternatives and ways of helping them disassociate from gangs. This plenary will look at what we know about young people and gangs and what is being done to engage them.

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2 - 3.30pm
PERSONALISATION: WORKFORCE IMPLICATIONS
With predictions that 50 per cent of social care spending will be in the hands of private individuals in ten years' time, the question arises of how this will impact upon the role of social workers? This session aims to demonstrate how dedicated workers can be made to feel valued and offered the opportunity to improve their skills and status.

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 4 - 5.30pm
QUESTION TIME
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ROOM 1

10.30am – 12.15pm
A WORLD AWAY: HELP FOR UNACCOMPANIED ASYLUM SEEKING CHILDREN
Asylum seekers generally seek scant public sympathy and are often subject to draconian measures. However, the situation of unaccompanied asylum seeking children and young people only exacerbates this. How can voluntary or public agencies work together to help this most vulnerable of groups?
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 12.30 – 2pm
VULNERABLE AND ABUSED: PROTECTING FELLOW CITIZENS
Elder abuse and abuse of vulnerable adults has only come to the fore in public policy terms in the last few years and tends only to reach public notice with media coverage of particularly horrifying hate crimes. Yet the subject still does not command anything like the profile for young victims of violence. This session will discuss what accounts for hate crimes against these groups and what actions need to be taken to protect them.
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 2.30 – 4pm
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: WHEN HOME IS NO PLACE LIKE HOME
Domestic violence continued, more than 30 years after the public spotlight was shone upon it, to be a major problem. It is also one which, we have come increasingly to understand, has serious effects on children even when they are not themselves abused.
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DAY TWO PROGRAMME DETAILS
(Thursday 15 May 2008)

AUDITORIUM
10 – 10.30am

MINISTERIAL ADDRESS
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10.45am – 12.15pm
THE ADULT GREEN PAPER: A NEW VISION FOR SERVICES?
The Adult Green Paper is promised to bring about a "transformation" in  the lives of adult social care users, according to the former Prime Minister Tony Blair. With widespread agreement among users, agencies and government, is this really the answer after years of agitation? Can the green paper live up to its promises and can it be the equivalent of Every Child Matters for adults?
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12.30 - 1.45pm
BRINGING EVERYONE IN: CHILDREN, ADULTS, FAMILIES AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION
Social exclusion - from the Social Exclusion Unit to the Social Exclusion Task Force - has been a watchword of Labour policy since its election in 1997. Many reports have been published but how much are we joining up policies? Three speakers will look at the government perspective and what social exclusion policies should mean for adults and children.
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2.15 - 3.45pm
ARE WE VALUING PEOPLE?
When the Valuing People White Paper appeared  it was called a "once in a generation opportunity" by then Health Secretary Alan Milburn. Now the strategy is being revised. This plenary will consider what has been achieved, what is still to be done and what are the obstacles to overcome.
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ROOM 1

11.30am – 1pm
PLACING CHILDREN WITH GAY AND LESBIAN CARERS AND ADOPTERS
Wakefield Council's appointed their first gay foster carers in 2003, inspiring enormous hope for the future. But in this case it went wrong when they were convicted of sexual offences against some of the children. How do social workers realise the promise of gay foster care while managing the risks associated with a form of foster care still regarded as controversial by some sectors of the public?
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1.30 - 2.45pm
RISK FACTOR LIVE!
Staying Safe: Working With Dangerous Adults
Recent events have shown what a dangerous occupation social work can be. By using a risk assessment model and audience-led enactment, this session will help you identify potentially dangerous situations and examine the conflict between staying safe as a worker, whilst continuing to meet the needs of the client. Although the enactment focuses upon a home visit, the principles of staying safe apply throughout the session.
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To take a look at the full programme of activity for Community Care Live 08, please see Plan Your Visit

 

Speaker Biographies

KAREN BAILEY has been the Co-ordinator of the Stella Project, part of the Greater London Domestic Violence Project, since December 2005. Previous to this role, Bailey has worked in a range of policy and strategic roles co-ordinating domestic violence work and young people's development initiatives for the past five years. This has included domestic violence work at local government level within London, developing cross cultural education programmes for an international NGO and a year spent working on a youth leadership programme in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Bailey has also volunteered with a number of projects in the Czech Republic, Croatia and India.
www.gldvpstellaproject.org.uk

SHAUN BAILEY is a Co-founder of My Generation - a registered charity set up to address the social problems that affect young people and their families - including anti-social behaviour, drug use, crime, teen pregnancy, educational underachievement and unemployment. He is the author of No-Man's Land, a 63 page pamphlet analysing the social crisis afflicting our inner-cities.

RONNIE BARNES is currently the UK Chair of the British Association of Social Workers [BASW]. He has been an active member of the Association for over 30 years and on their behalf, has led on a number of important social policy developments in Scotland, most recently the Adult Support and Protection Act 2007. Barnes is also currently a Service Development Officer in services for older people with West Lothian Council and has been an advisor to Action on Elder Abuse since September 2007.
http://www.basw.co.uk/

PETER BERESFORD is Professor of Social Policy at Brunel University and Chair of the independent national service user controlled organisation and network, Shaping Our Lives. He is a Trustee of the Social Care Institute for Excellence, member of the Advisory Board of the National Institute for Health Research, Research Fellow at the School of Social Work and Psycho-social Studies at the University of East Anglia and a member of the national Commission on Personalisation recently established by Hampshire County Council.
www.shapingourlives.org.uk 

CAROLINE BERNARD is Policy and Communications Manager at Counsel and Care, the national charity getting the best care and support for older people, their families and carers. Bernard leads on influencing, corporate communications, and events.
www.counselandcare.org.uk

SUE BOTT, a disabled person from birth, has been active in the disability movement in the UK for many years. Currently she is Director of the National Centre for Independent Living based in London. Previous to that she spent 15 years working for a Centre for Independent Living (Shropshire Disability Consortium) based in a rural area, initially as a development worker and latterly as its Chief Officer.

RAY BRAITHWAITE was the lead trainer of Community Care's "No Fear" campaign (1999), seeking government resources to substantially reduce levels of aggression towards social care staff. He is the author of Managing Agression (Taylor and Francis 2001), Turning Down the Heat (Pavilion 2003) and the dvd Teach Yourself Breakaway Skills (2008).
www.agressionstresstraining.co.uk

STEPHEN BURKE became Chief Executive of Counsel and Care, the national charity getting the best care and support for older people, their families and carers, in 2005. Since then he has helped raise the profile and influence of Counsel and Care in the debate about the future of care, and extended the charity's advice service to reach more older people, their families and carers.

Previously Burke was Director of the national childcare charity Daycare Trust from 2000. He led the charity's campaign for childcare for all, promoting children's centres in every community and securing substantial new investment.

Burke has 25 years experience in public relations, journalism and fundraising. www.counselandcare.org.uk

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.
www.basw.co.uk

 DAVID CONGDON is Head of Campaigns and Policy at Mencap. He is responsible for campaigning and policy development. Congdon is a regular Mencap spokesperson, speaking to the media about Mencap's campaigns and policies as well as other issues involving learning disabilities. He has had a long commitment to health and social care, having been a member of a health authority and chair of social services.
www.mencap.org.uk

JULIE COOKE has worked as a social worker in a variety of settings for the past 30 years. Since 1988 she has specialised in family placement and permanency for looked-after children in local authority and, more recently, as a trainer/consultant for BAAF. Cooke is chair of both an adoption and a fostering panel.
www.baaf.org.uk

DR HELEN COSIS BROWN is a Principal Lecturer in Social Work at Middlesex University. She also works as an independent foster carer reviewing officer, chairs an adoption panel as well and a fostering panel. She worked as a social worker and a social work manager in inner London before moving into social work education. Her publications have included social work with lesbians and gay men as well as fostering and adoption.

 DONNA COVEY has been Chief Executive of the Refugee Council since May 2007. The Refugee Council is the largest organisation in the UK working with asylum seekers and refugees. Prior to this, Covey was Chief Executive of Asthma UK for five years, having previously been Director of the Association of Community Health Councils for England and Wales. In her current role, Covey chairs the Inter Agency Partnership, co-chairs the National Asylum Stakeholder Forum, and sits on the Board for Refugee Integration in London, and the Migration Impacts Forum.
www.refugeecouncil.org.uk

JILL DAVIES joined the Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities over six years ago. Most of her work at the Foundation has been around addressing the mental health needs of young people with learning disabilities. Davies has worked with people with learning disabilities for over 20 years and has largely worked with children and families, including developing of one of the first family support services for children with autism in the UK.
www.learningdisabilities.org.uk

NAOMI EISENSTADT is Director of the Social Exclusion Task Force at the Cabinet Office. She is responsible for the delivery of the first Public Service Agreement on Adults at risk of deep exclusion. Cabinet Office work on Families at Risk and advice on social exclusion across Government.
From 1999 Eisenstadt ran the Sure Start Programme. This grew over seven years into responsibility for the Government's policy on services for young children, extended schools and parenting. She is a non-Executive Director of a primary care trust. In 2002 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Open University. In 2004 she was awarded the CB in the New Year Honours list.

KEVIN GIBBS is the Assistant Director for the NSPCC in South and East Wales. He is responsible for the delivery of NSPCC domestic abuse services across Wales as well as being the Lead Manager for the development of domestic abuse services across the UK. He is a member of the Welsh Assembly Domestic Aubse Strategic Group and sits on a number of LSCB's, MAPPA strategic managing boards and domestic abuse forums.

PROFESSOR JON GLASBY is Professor of Health and Social Care and Director of the Health Services Management Centre (HSMC), University of Birmingham. A qualified social worker by background, he is a board member of the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) and leads a programme of national and international research, teaching and consultancy around inter-agency working in health and social care.
http://www.hsmc.bham.ac.uk/programmes/partnership.htm

ROB GRIEG is Chief Executive of the National Development Team - the learning disability, mental health and social inclusion development agency. From November 2001 to May 2008, he was the Government's National Director for Learning Disabilities - leading the development and delivery of the Valuing People White Paper and the Valuing People Support Team. Prior to that Rob worked in learning disability, mental health and community Services in both local government and the NHS.

PROFESSOR GILL HAGUE is the Co-Director, together with Marianne Hester, of the Violence Against Women Group at the University of Bristol which has a national and international standing in the field of violence against women research. She has worked on domestic violence issues for more than 30 years as both an activist and academic, and has produced over 90
publications on violence against women.
www.bristol.ac.uk/vawrg

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

Henwood has more than 25 years experience in research and analysis. Most recently she has been involved in work around the development of personalisation and in examining the impact of eligibility criteria for social care. She is a frequent commentator on health and social care issues in the professional press and in broadcast media.

Before establishing her own consultancy in 1991, Henwood held research posts at the King's Fund (1989-91), the Family Policy Studies Centre (1983-89), and the University of Bath (1981-83).

BEVERLEY HUGHES was leader of Trafford Borough Council until 1997 when she was elected MP for Stretford and Urmston (Manchester). She has held Ministerial posts in the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions and the Home Office. Following the general election in 2005, Hughes was appointed Minister for Children, Young People and Families at the Department for Education and Skills. At the Cabinet re-shuffle of June 2007, she remained in post and given additional responsibilities for Youth Justice and appointed Minister for the North West. Hughes also attends Cabinet when Social Policy issues are discussed.
 

MARK IVORY is Executive Editor of Community Care. He has worked there for 18 years, having previously been, among other things, Acting Editor, Managing Editor and Features Editor.

 

DR RAY JONES is a registered Social Worker, and has recently been appointed as Professor of Social Work at Kingston University and St Georges Medical School. From 1992 to 2006 he was Director of social services and then Director of adult and community services with Wiltshire County Council. Jones was the first Chief Executive of the Social Care Institute for Excellence and has been Deputy Chair, and then Chair, of the British Association of Social Workers. He is the author of five books and numerous published papers on social policy, social work and social care. He is a visiting professor at the University of Bath, and formerly at the University of Exeter, an Honorary Fellow of the University of Gloucestershire, and a trustee of Quarriers (a major Scottish-based social care charity).

STEVE LIDDICOTT is currently an Assistant Director in the Department for Children, Young People and Learners in the London Borough of Croydon. Prior to that, he held a similar post in the Hillingdon. He therefore has extensive experience of the management and development of local authority support services for unaccompanied asylum seeking children. Steve has also worked closely with the Home Office in the development of services and strategy. He is a member of the ADCS/ADASS Asylum Task Force, one of the Association's policy leads on UASC and a member of the ADCS Health, Care and Additional Needs Policy Committee which is currently working closely on the implementation of Care Matters and on the Children and Young Persons' Bill.
http://www.adcs.org.uk/

GLEN MASON has worked for over 20 years in social care, holding a number of posts in both local and national government.He began his career in 1986 as a social worker in Nottinghamshire. After a period in North Yorkshire he became Head of Children’s Services with Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council. He held Assistant Director posts with both Wolverhampton and Manchester before moving to become Regional Director with the Social Services Inspectorate. Prior to joining the Department of Health Mason was Director for Adults and Community with Wolverhampton City Council and was responsible for, amongst other services, Adult Social Care, Adult Education, Culture and Leisure. Mason has been an active member of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services and was Chair of the ADASS National Learning Disabilities Network.

LISA NANDY is the Policy Adviser for young refugees at The Children's Society. She also chairs the Refugee Children's Consortium, a coalition of leading voluntary organisations working on behalf of refugee children. Nandy has previously worked for Neil Gerrard MP and as policy and research officer at the youth homelessness charity Centrepoint.
www.childrenssociety.org.uk

DEXTER PADMORE is 19 years old and was one of the original participants on the first ever X-it Programme. He works with the programme as a Peer Youth Worker. Padmore was the subject of a Channel 4 documentary screened last year - "Not one of the Gang". He has also addressed the Home Affairs Select Committee, met with the Home Secretary and spoken with numerous conferences and is now working as a Youth Worker. Padmore is also a member of the X-it online web team.

SARAH PICKUP is Director of Adult Care Services in Hertfordshire and has recently become Joint Chair of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADSS)Committee. Prior to this Pickup led on Carers for the ADASS for three years.

She has worked for Hertfordshire for over 19 years. After working in the Finance and Education departments she was appointed as an Assistant Director of Social Services in 1995. She took up her current post in September 2003.

PROFESSOR JOHN PITTS has been a teacher, a youth worker, a group worker in a young offender institution and a youth justice development officer. He has advised youth justice workers, the police and legal professions in the UK, mainland Europe, the Caribbean, Russia and China. He has written and researched youth crime and youth justice and his latest book, Reluctant Gangsters: The Changing Face of Youth Crime, will be published in July 2008.

DAME DENISE PLATT is the Chair of the Commission for Social Care Inspection, a non-departmental government body responsible for inspecting and assessing the performance of all adult social care services in England. Prior to this appointment in 2004, she was Chief Inspector, Social Services Inspectorate, and Director for Children, Older People and Social Care Services at the Department of Health in England. Platt is also an Audit Commissioner. She has recently (April 2007) completed a review of the 'Status of Social Care' for the Secretary of State for Health. 

BOB REITEMEIER is Chief Executive of The Children's Society and has led the transformation of the charity's work to focus on the most marginalised children and young people in the UK. Since 2006, Reitemeier has overseen the Good Childhood Inquiry, which has strengthened The Children's Society's position as a thought-leader dedicated to ensuring that every child has
a good childhood.
www.childrenssociety.org.uk

MARTIN ROUTLEDGE is the National Lead for Personalisation for the Care Services Improvement Partnership. His team led the implementation support to the individual budgets pilot sites and are now preparing a resource toolkit and support programme for councils to support implementation of the personalisation agenda.

ANDREA ROWE is the Chief Executive of Skills for Care, the organisation that aims to improve adult social care services across the whole of England by supporting employers’ workforce development activity. Skills for Care is part of the sector skills council, Skills for Care and Development. Rowe is also Chair of the Skills Forum in the North West region.
www.skillsforcare.org.uk

ANDREW SAYERS qualified as a social worker in 1982 and has worked in many different social work teams in various local authorities in various positions. Prior to coming to BAAF as a Trainer/Consultant 5 years ago, he was a Deputy Project Leader in Barnardos Jigsaw Project. His interest is in systemic thinking and he also a qualified homeopath and neuro-linguistic programmer.
www.baaf.org.uk/
www.baaf.org.uk/local/se/index.shtmlon

 JOY SMITH (not her real name) is a survivor of domestic violence and a dedicated member of the Pheonix Group, who are a group of women that are survivors of domestic violence. Their role is to use their negative life experience in a positive way by being consultants for the Westminster Domestic Violence Forum

MIKE SMITH is Director of Policy and Compliance at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC). He is also Chair of the National Centre for Independent Living, a member of the Equality and Human Rights Commission Disability Committee and a member of Stonewall's Board. He is a former Chair of PwC's Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender staff network and is currently helping establish their disability network.
www.ncil.org.uk

MADELEINE STARR is Strategic Projects Manager at Carers UK. From 2002-2005 she managed Action for Carers and Employment (ACE), an innovative partnership project led by Carers UK that focused on carers and employment. ACE produced ground breaking research which has provided an evidence base for national and local policy makers seeking to develop integrated systems to support carers in and into work. Starr was instrumental in establishing Eurocarers, an EU-level network promoting carers issues and continues to work at European and international level. She joined Carers UK in 2000.

MARTIN STEVENS completed a philosophy degree before working for five years in a residential service for adults with learning disabilities. After this, he moved to research roles in Hampshire Social Services Department and subsequently the Social Care Workforce Research Unit. Currently Stevens is working on a number of projects, including the Social Work Degree evaluation and the Individual Budgets evaluation.
www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/sspp/scwru/people/stevens.html

SIMON STEVENS is and Independent Disability Consultant and Trainer and was previously Chief executive of Enable Enterprises. Stevents has employed his own personal assistants since 1992 and now uses individualised budgets. He is an active campaigner within social care and a regular columnist for Community Care.
http://www.simonstevens.com

CLARE TICKELL has been Chief Executive of NCH since January 2005 - one of the UK's largest and most important charities. NCH employs over 6,000 people in nearly 500 projects across the UK and in parts of the Caribbean and Africa, supporting more than 170,000 children, young people and their families.

Throughout her career, Tickell has been committed to improving the lives of our most excluded and vulnerable fellow citizens She has also held many non-Executive and advisory positions in the voluntary and housing sectors, as well as in the Social Exclusion Unit, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, the Department of Health and the Audit Commission.
www.nch.org.uk

JEREMY VINE established himself as a charming but tough-talking presenter on Newsnight. He now presents the daily lunchtime show on Radio 2 and fronts Panorama.

On television Jeremy has taken over from Peter Snow's Swingometer for all BBC election coverage. Other credits include The Politics Show and Pageturners.

MIKE WARDLE is the Chief Executive of the General Social Care Council (GSCC). Before taking up this role, he was Duty Chief Executive and Director of Strategy of the GSCC, responsible for  setting the strategic direction for the organisation in its role aas social care workforce regulator in England. In this role Wardle oversaw the GSCC's business planning and business development and assurance. with oversight of the GSCC's legal services and communication functions.

BIANCA WAITE joined the X-it Programme in 2006 and came immediately onto a leadership programme. She is an experienced Peer Youth Workers and has worked on a number of programmes including delivering in schools. She has also addressed the Home Affairs Select Committee, met with the Home Secretary and spoken at numerous conferences. Waite is currently managing the X-it web site and will be on going to univerisity in September to do a degree in Business and Law.

DAME JO WILLIAMS joined Mencap as Chief Executive in March 2003. Mencap is the UK’s leading learning disability charity, working with people with a learning disability and their families and carers. Williams has spent over 30 years in local government, the last ten as a Director of Social Services. In 2005, Community Care magazine named Jo as the most influential person in social care, and in 2007, Jo was awarded a DBE in the Queen’s New Year Honours list.
www.mencap.org.uk

JULIA WINTER works part-time as a Director of Liberation Partnership, a user led social enterprise set up to support people moving onto personal budgets. As part of this role she is currently working for In Control as part of their core team. Winter is involved in several voluntary roles, including membership of Department of Health's Individual Budgets Reference Group and CSCI's Standing Reference Group.

JULIA WOLTON is a fully qualified Youth and Community Worker and has worked across London since 1981 in both the voluntary and statutory sectors. She has worked with young people at risk of gang involvement since 1981. Currently working for the London Borough of Lambeth as the Brixton Town Centre Team Leader, Wolton designed and coordinates the X-it Programme following the execution style murder in Brixton of a young person, Adrian Marriott.

HOWARD WOOLFENDEN has worked in childcare for over 30 years and took up his current post at northerncare in September 2007. He has worked in a number of local authorities ending that spell as an Assistant Director in the West Midlands. He describes his move to the private sector as "a great opportunity to really drive up outcomes for looked-after children".

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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