QUESTION TIME
13 May 2009: 4 – 5:30pm
Auditorium
Question Time is an unrivalled opportunity to put the experts on the spot – to ask the difficult questions, give your views and influence the future of social care.
Eight high profile social care panelists will be waiting to take your questions at our Question Time session at Community Care Live 09. The session, chaired by the BBC’s distinguished broadcaster and journalist Jeremy Vine, allows you to ask the burning questions and participate in the big debate. Take a look at our confirmed speakers below.
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Hosted by Jeremy Vine, Broadcaster and Journalist
Panel Members:
- Saghir Alam, member of the Statutory Committee of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission
- Rodney Bickerstaffe, former President, National Pensioners Convention
- Cynthia Bower, Chief Executive, Care Quality Commission
- Kim Bromley-Derry, President 2009-10, ADCS
- Christine Davies, Chief Executive, C4EO
- Julie Jones, Chief Executive, Social Care Institute for Excellence
- John Knight, Assistant Director, Policy and Campaigns, Leonard Cheshire Disability
- Bronagh Miskelly, Group Editor, Community Care
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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