QUESTION TIME
18 May 2010: 4 – 5:30pm
Auditorium
Programme details are subject to change at short notice. Please check the web site regularly for updates. All sessions are available on a first come, first served basis. Students over 18 only.
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.
Seven high profile social care panelists will be waiting to take your questions at our Question Time session at Community Care Live 2010. 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:
- Shaun Bailey, Managing Director, My Generation
- Hilton Dawson, Chief Executive, BASW
- Perdeep Gill, Social Care Consultant, ADITI Consultancy and Training
- Simon Heng, service user and Community Care columnist
- Bronagh Miskelly, Group Editor, Community Care
- Joanna Nicolas,Child Protection Consultant, Trainer and Social Worker
- Jean Stogdon, Chair and Co-Founder, Grandparents Plus
PANEL BIOGRAPHIES
SHAUN BAILEY is managing director of My Generation, a registered charity set up to address the social problems that affect young people and their families, including antisocial behaviour, drug use, crime, teen pregnancy, educational under-achievement and unemployment. He is the author of No-Man’s Land, a pamphlet analysing the social crisis afflicting our inner cities,
www.mygeneration.org.uk
HILTON DAWSON has been chief executive of BASW since May 2009. He had 15 years’ social work experience with Lancashire County Council and has worked for ChildLine and as chief executive of Shaftesbury Young People in the voluntary sector. A qualified social worker for almost 30 years, Hilton has been actively involved in politics for much of this time and was Labour MP for Lancaster & Wyre from 1997 until standing down in 2005.
www.basw.co.uk
PERDEEP GILL qualified as a social worker 20 years ago and is now an independent safeguarding advisor and consultant. She also provides specialist advice on safeguarding cases involving ethnic minorities and Local Safeguarding Children Board development. Shei s a child protection advisor to BME voluntary and faith groups as well as the Metropolitan Police.
SIMON HENG became a wheelchair user 14 years ago following a rare spinal disorder. He has been active in promoting service user involvement and disability issues for the past 12 years, and was the chair of the Worcestershire Association of Service for 10 years. His involvement has included training with social and health care workers, and teaching health and social care students. This included many years as the service user representative on Worcestershire's Vulnerable Adults Protection Committee (now the Worcestershire Safeguarding Adults Committee). Heng writes a fortnightly column in Community Care magazine, highlighting disability and service user issues. In November 2005, he was awarded an honorary MA for his services to the community, by the University of Worcester.
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.
www.communitycare.co.uk
JOANNA NICOLAS qualified as a social worker in 1995 and was employed in the statutory sector until 2008. She now works independently, consults on child protection, policy and procedures and undertakes serious case reviews. Nicolas delivers safeguarding training on behalf of her Local Safeguarding Children Board, as well as in the independent sector.
www.joannanicolas.co.uk
JEAN STOGDON is 81. She qualified as a social worker in 1971 and is still registered with GSCC. Stogdon spent most of her career in front line services (Camden) - both as a social worker and manager - and was a Children’s Guardian for ten years. In 1999 she travelled to the USA on a Winston Churchill Fellowship to study issue around grandparents and kinship care. In 2001 she co-founded Grandparents Plus with Michael Young to promote the role of grandparents and the value to children of the extended family. Grandparents Plus also trains professionals and offers consultation to childrens services on kinship care. Jean has been a mother for 58 years and a grandmother for 28 years.
JEREMY VINE established himself as a charming but tough-talking presenter on BBC2’s ewsnight. 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
