14-15 May 2008
Workshops are run by practitioners involved in delivering effective, innovative services that demonstrate best practice. The sessions are informal and designed to share best practice with delegates and to stimulate discussion and the exchange of ideas. Delegates are also interested to hear about research that has had, or may have, important implications in social care or to their working lives.
Come and hear what cutting edge practice can really make a difference to the lives of service users.
DAY ONE PROGRAMME DETAILS
(Wednesday 14 May 2008)
ROOM 2
10.30 – 11.20am
THE EXCELLENCE NETWORK
The Saucepans Project: Early Intervention in Children's & Adolescent Mental Health Services
Southampton Primary Care Trust's "Saucepans" provide support, within the local community, to children and young people experiencing mental health, emotional and/or behavioural problems as well as providing choice and flexibility. An equally important part of the project has been our active engagement with BME communities, both established and new and enabling easier access to this valuable CAMH service.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:
- Hear about the development of a culturally competent care matrix
- Learn creative interventions to support children, young people and their families by multi-disciplinary workers
11.30am - 12.20pm
COMMUNITY CARE INFORM
Using Community Care Inform to Develop Evidence-Informed Practice.
This workshop will give delegates the opportunity to find out how CC Inform - the new online infromation service from Community Care - can help support children and families practitioners to develop and approach to evidence-informed practice; help them consider the basis of their decisions; and to significantly increase their knowledge base.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:
- understand more about an evidence-informed approach to pracitce
- consider how they can use trusted sources of information to increase their knowledge base; inform their practice; and improve their approach to evidence-based practice
1 - 1.50pm
BAAF
Finding Families for Looked-After Children: What Are We Looking For?
Many of the children in public care, today, will be 'brought up and cared for' by the state. Care Matters has focussed on this being as close to a normal childhood as possible with its emphasis on stability, opportunity and normality. Is this an accurate picture of the issues faced by children and carers?
Delegates who attend this workshop will:
- Review the evidence underlying these issues
- Receive a practical method of finding families for children - through the demonstration of the new 'Be My Parent Online' website
2 – 2.50pm
HAMMERSMITH AND FULHAM COUNCIL
How We Invest in Making Home Work for the Best
This workshop will showcase how Hammersmith & Fulham's family support provision works with parents, carers and young people to build family strengths. With a strong preventative focus, we will demonstrate how planned time-limited short breaks away from home are combined with other aspects of family support work to bring about a change in the family circumstances.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:
- Hear how partnership working is key
- Learn how components of the family support service are making a positive difference to parents, carers and outcomes for children
- Gain an evaluation of the service, including budgetary benefits
3 – 3.50pm
AGE CONCERN ENGLAND
Volunteer Advocacy with Older People: Making the Mental Capacity Act Work
The Age Concern Mental Health Advocacy project is an innovative volunteer advocacy service working with older people who lack mental capacity. This workshop will detail this national pilot project, sharing best practice and discussing what it means to provide effective non-instructed advocacy for older people who lack capacity.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:
- Have a good understanding of the mental health advocacy project and how this differs from statutory advocacy services such as the IMCA and IMHA services
- Be more aware of the range of mental capacity issues that affect older people
- Be more knowledgeable about non-instructed advocacy and how volunteer advocates can effective deliver this form of advocacy
- Learn about the work of the Good Lives model
- Identify which approaches are appropriate to young people
- Understand how to manage young people who display sexually harmful behaviour
- Learn the positive impact of the introduction of an integrated inspection framework
- Be able to progress on development of future inspection framework for children's services
- Hear how good practice can be embedded systematically
- Learn how different initiatives can be brought together to benefit vulnerable children
- Understand how the children's workforce as a whole can contribute to the same overall outcomes
- Be clear what the My Home Life vision is
- Contribute their professional role perspective to one of the themes
- Be familiar with a model that is evidence-based, owned by the sector and delivering outcomes for older people
- Learn about alternatives to residential care for people with challenging behaviours of all ages, including those with mental health and learning disability needs
- Gain practical advice and tools for care planning for individuals, including how to incorporate specialist agencies
- Understand how individuals can be supported to similar levels of intensive care as previously considered only the reserve for residential care
- Obtain the most up to date legal guidance on looked-after children
- Be provided with practical methods of assisting children requiring accommodation and support
- Understand the scale and impact of debt on mental health service users
- Learn how mental health professionals can help
- Hear the principles behind Aiming High for Disabled Children
- Understand the opportunities for commissioners and service providers to improve their services
- Learn how the new national disabled children's indicator will measure outcomes for children and families
- Be able to identify disability hate crimes committed against their clients
- Know how to report such crimes and what response their clients should expect from criminal justice professionals
- Learn how to provide appropriate support to their clients if they are the victim of a disability hate crime
- Learn ways in which telecare and assistive technologies can enable individuals to gain or maintain their independence through the management of risk and unmet needs
- Understand how appropriate provision can yield desired outcomes for informal carers and for the health and social care economies
- Hear the challenges involved in managing equipment provision and in making telecare services sustainable
- hear about partnership working with local authorities
- learn about individualised funding options
- gain tips for transition planning
11.30am – 12.20pm
FAMILY WELFARE ASSOCIATION
Building Bridges: Working with Families Affected by Parental Mental Ill Health
This workshop will give an opportunity to think about the needs of families affected by parental mental health problems. It will provide an overview of the Family Welfare Association’s Building Bridges services that work across adults’ and children’s services and share effective strategies. It will also present some of the findings from the recent independent evaluation of the service.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:- Increase awareness of the issues for families in which parents are affected by mental ill health
- Improve knowledge of strategies to support parents and children
- Learn about findings from the recent independent evaluation of the Family Welfare Association’s Building Bridges services
1 - 1.50pm
LONDON BOROUGH OF SUTTON
Early Intervention & Prevention Service (incorporating School Family Support Service)
This workshop will outline the work of the Early Intervention & Prevention Service in Sutton - a new preventative service being developed between Children's Services, Extended Services and Early Years and schools within Sutton to satisfy the Every Child Matters agenda and secure positive outcomes for vulnerable children.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:- Understand how early intervention can benefit children and families and prevent statutory intervention
- Learn how requests for service are made
- Hear how early findings show this service really does make a difference to service users
2 – 2.50pm
THE CALDECOTT FOUNDATION
Planning for Positive Outcomes: The Impact of Involving Young People in Care Planning
This workshop aims to give an overview of a young person's journey through placement from his arrival at the assessment centre, through the residential provision and his move into a local foster family. The focus will be on working together on the placement planning process to achieve a positive outcome.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:- Hear from a young person about their experience through this process
- Gain insight into placement planning used as a measure for outcomes (linked to the National Care Contract)
3 - 3.50pm
THE EXCELLENCE NETWORK
DUDLEY MBC/PCT: WINGS (Women in Need Growing Stronger)
Come and hear why we developed the WINGS groups in Dudley and how we support women who have been abused, enabling them to begin their recovery, increase their self esteem and personal respect, prevent relapse and avoid re-victimisation. Information on how to respond to disclosures of abuse, inter-agency working and training will also be covered.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:- Learn about the effects of domestic abuse on women's mental heatlh
- Understand why questions about domestic abuse should routinely be asked when working with women and their children
- Know how to challenge myths and understand why women remain in abusive relationships
ROOM 3
10.30 – 11.20am
SHAFTESBURY YOUNG PEOPLE
Improving the Educational Outcomes of Looked-After Children and Young People on the Verge of Exclusion
This workshop will focus on a case study of a young person at the start of year 11 who has recently come into care. He or she is not attending school after a fixed term exclusion from a mainstream school in another local authority. The case study will be used to demonstrate how Shaftesbury use their model (developed through a research project funded by the Department for Children, Schools and Families over three years) to facilitate reintegration to school and completion of GCSE qualifications.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:- Learn our approach to personalised assessment and planning for a young person
- Hear who we reintegrate young people back into mainstream school
- Understand how we support young people to complete GCSE’s
11.30am – 12.20pm
Strategic Commissioning For Partnerships: Planning Modern Integrated Services
This workshop will introduce participants to a new set of training material for partnerships that want to improve their strategic commissioning and planning and develop better integrated services. Strategic commissioning means thinking, planning and working differently and considering the needs and aspirations of the whole population not just those who receive services now. It also means being creative about money and developing the capacity of partnerships to make big decisions.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:- Learn about strategic commissioning
- Understand why it is important that local authorities and their partners begin to work in this way
- Understand the value and benefits of strategic commissioning
- Provide a taster of how it can work in practice
1 - 1.50pm
Integrated Working: Understanding the Benefits - Focus on a New Guide from the Integrated Care Network
Integrated working has the power to deliver substantially improved outcomes to users of health and social care services and features strongly in recent policy documents such as the 2006 White Paper Our Health Our Care Our Say and the recent January 2008 cross-departmental strategy Putting People First. Yet staying abreast of constantly evolving policy, guidance and best-practice examples of integrated care arrangements can be difficult.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:- Understand what integrated working is
- Appreciate the benefits integrated working brings to service users
- Learn the challenges integrated working represents to providers
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2 – 2.50pm
Care Closer to Home: Transforming Services Through Extra Care Housing and Telecare
This workshop will highlight the way care economies are responding to Putting People First and the recent National Housing Strategy for an Ageing Society to transform the way that housing and care services are delivered. This session will focus on Care Closer to Home and the greater personalisation of services through Extra Care Housing and the application of telecare.Delegates who attend this session will:
- Gain information on the Department of Health’s 2008-2010 Extra Care Housing Fund
- Be provided an update on the Advanced Assistive Technology Whole System Demonstrator sites
- Learn innovative examples of practice and the transformation of local housing, care and health services
- Learn the latest tools from CSIP Networks to local authorities and their partners to support capacity building and implementation of housing with care programmes
3 – 3.50pm
KING'S COLLEGE LONDON
The National Service Framework on Older People
The workshop will describe some of the research questions which arose from the NSFOP and how they were addressed in the research programme funded by the Department of Health. In particular it will examine what we know about the experiences of older people themselves and discuss - using the research findings - the extent to which the NSF has addressed their needs.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:- Learn about the policies and the principles underlying the NSFOP
- Understand the challenge of researching complex public policies
- Hear how research may be used to influence policy developments
ROOM 4
10.30 – 11.20am
SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
People with Dementia: Practice Issues for Social Care
This workshop, chaired by the Director of Policy at Help the Aged will highlight good practice in the social care of people with demention from a variety of perspectives including a person with dementia. It will includes the SCIE/NICE dementia guidelines; demonstrate SCIE's e-learning resources; and include findings and recommendations from Home from Home, the Alzheimer's Society report on residential care for people with dementia.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:- Gain an awareness of the experience of a person with dementia and their views on social care services
- Understand SCIE-NICE guidelines on dementia with a focus on social care
- Hear key findings and recommendations from Home from Home, the Alzheimer’s Society report on residential care for people with dementia
- Knowledge of links to access more detailed information
11.30am – 12.20pm
LONDON BOROUGH OF ISLINGTON
No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF): An Issue for Local Authorities
Islington is one of the few local authorities that have a coordinated response and a dedicated team to adults with no recourse to public funds (NRPF). In its approach, Islington has sought to assist clients to find resolution to their complex circumstances and work jointly across teams within and external to the Council. Islington Council is also leading the development of the NRPF Network. The Network provides specialist advice for local authorities on best practice, as well as developing written guidance for practitioners and delivering training and conferences. This workshop will provide an overview of the legislation pertaining to people with NRPF as well as identifying key issues and good practice.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:- Increase awareness and understanding of the needs of people with nrpf
- Ensure practitioners are aware of their statutory duties when assessing people with NRPF
- Become aware of models of good practice
- Be able to identify the key issues for local authorities
1 - 1.50pm
MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION
Measuring Effective Service User Involvement
Service user involvement is an important part of any mental health service and yet little has been done to measure its effect or effectiveness. This workshop will explore indicators of effective service user involvement and help participants give their own work in service user involvement greater impact.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:- Have an improved understanding of what makes service user involvement effective
- Understand what constitutes a useful indicator of effective service user involvement
- Gain an ability to measure the effectiveness of personal efforts at service user involvement
2 – 2.50pm
TELFORD AND WREKIN COUNCIL
Supported Tenancy and Resettlement Service (STARS): The Next Generation
This workshop will focus on developing services to meet the holistic needs of young people faced with homelessness, using the Telford & Wrekin STARS as a model for service delivery. It will be an interactive session discussing the barriers faced by young people and how to overcome these barriers and provide the skills and experience to successfully sustain tenancies through targeted life skills, education and training opportunities.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:- Understand key elements in developing a successful young persons scheme – partnership working, corporate commitment, young persons’ involvement and risk management
- Gain positive outcomes to this dedicated scheme from the people who are involved in it
3 – 3.50pm
RWA CHILD PROTECTION SERVICES
Grasping the Nettle: Multi Agency Approaches to Managing Sexually Abusive Adolescents
This workshop will help develop a consensus toward a shared strategy that acknowledges and manages the risk posed by sexually abusive young people with multiple complexities and needs.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:- Understand the need to encourage a multi-agency response to sexually abusive adolescents
- Hear how to accept the risk and manage it
- Know how to share the risk and allocate needs led resources
- Gain the ability to enhance inter-agency / inter-disciplinary communication and cooperation
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Students over 18 only.
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ROOM 3
10.30 – 11.20am
NORTHERNCARE
Providing Positive Outcomes for Young People Who Display Harmful Sexual Behaviour
This workshop will outline the Good Lives model that explicitly draws upon effective practice principles to work with young people who display harmful sexual behaviour. Hear how positive outcomes can be achieved for these young people within the framework of Every Child Matters.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:
11.30am – 12.20pm
OFSTED
Narrowing the Gap for Children and Young People in Need
This workshop will focus on the contribution of inspection to improving outcomes for children and young people. It will summarise the outcomes of joint area reviews, annual performance assessment and regulatory inspections of children's social care services and share information on how these have informed the future arrangements for inspection of children's services.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:
1 - 1.50pm
LONDON BOROUGH OF BARNET
Building Resilience: A New Approach to Prevention
This workshop will outline Barnet's approach to prevention and early intervention. It will showcase how service realignment is building resilience in vulnerable children and their families. Hear how to use the common assessmen framework to understand needs and measure for succcess; link universal services with specialist provision; develop local and borough-wide commissioning and bring children's and adults' services together.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:
2 – 2.50pm
HELP THE AGED
My Home Life
My Home Life is an exciting programme of research into practice promoting the quality of life for those who are living, dying, visiting or working in care homes for older people, from the residents' perspective. The interactive workshop will be focussed on eight themes comprising transitions, identity, community, healthcare, sharing decision-making; end of life; workforce and positive culture. It would be helpful if delegates are able to access the website (www.myhomelife.org) before the workshop.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:
3 – 3.50pm
MARKEL
The Future of Residential Care Set Against Intensive Supported Housing Developments
This interactive workshop will outline current concerns about the variable quality of residential care across the UK and will look at difficult, real life case studies. It will consider the extent to which intensive supported housing developments can provide real alternatives to those with exceptionally challenging behaviours to be able to receive care and support in their own tenanted or owned property.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:
ROOM 4
10.30-11.20
THE HOWARD LEAGUE FOR PENAL REFORM
Kids in Prison: Who Cares?
A recurring issue for children in prison relates to the failure of local authorities to comply with their duties under the Children Act 1989. Failure to provide child prisoners with a home and support in the community on release from prison is a major cause of re-offending. This workshop will explore the duties of local authorities to these children both in and out of custody.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:
11.30 – 12.20am
MIND
In The Red: Debt and Mental Health
This week sees the publication of Mind's new research into debt and mental health, outlining the scale and impact of debt on mental health service users. This workshop will cover the main findings of the research and the recommendations for mental health professionals and financial institutions.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:
1 - 1.50pm
EVERY DISABLED CHILD MATTERS CAMPAIGN
Disabled Children: Delivering the Change
This workshop will outline the opportunities for service providers to use new funding and the new disabled children's national indicator to improve outcomes for disabled children and their families. The Aiming High for Disabled Children programme begins in April 2008 and runs for three years. This session will explain the detail of the funding available through this programme and the transformation families can expect to see in services and support by 2011.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:
2 – 2.50pm
VOICE UK
Helping Victims of Disability Hate Crime
Disability hate crime is a largely hidden problem that affects clients of social care professionals. This workshop will help professionals to identify when one of their clients has been a victim of a disability hate crime and know how to support them. It will include an overview of the law; how to report these crimes; what response victims should expect from criminal justice agencies and how to help victims.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:
3 – 3.50pm
JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION CENTRE FOR USABLE HOME TECHNOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF YORK
Telecare and Electronic Assistive Technologies in the Implementation of Personalised Care in Adult Services
The range of telecare technologies available to support vulnerable people will be reviewed, highlighting the importance of assessment, prescription, and review. Opportunities for providing services that individuals value and select as part of their personalised care packages will be discussed along with challenges for operating services efficiently and cost-effectively. Hints will be offered for delivering effective services.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:
DAY TWO PROGRAMME DETAILS
(Thursday 15 May 2008)
ROOM 2
10.30 – 11.20am
THE EXCELLENCE NETWORK
MACINTYRE
My Way - Supporting Young People Through Transition
This workshop will share MacIntyre's experiences of their innovative My Way service which supports young people who are going through transition and are using individualised funding. The session will involve discussing the My Way process, support planning and the barriers and blocks that have been overcome.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:
