QUESTION TIME
14 May 2008: 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 08. 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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Jeremy Vine (Chair)
Shaun Bailey, Co-Founder, My Generation
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.
Sue Bott, Strategic Director, National Centre for Independent Living
A disabled person from birth, Sue Bott 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.
Mark Ivory, Executive editor, Community Care
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.
Stephen Burke, Chief Executive, Counsel and Care
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 elderly 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.
Naomi Eisenstadt, Director, Social Exclusion Task Force, Cabinet Office
Naomi Eisenstadt 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.
Dame Denise Platt, Chair, Commission for Social Care Inspection
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.
Clare Tickell, Chief Executive, NCH
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.
Howard Wolfenden, Managing Director, northerncare
Howard Wolfenden 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”.
To take a look at the full programme of activity for Community Care Live 08, please see Plan Your Visit
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