DAY ONE PROGRAMME DETAILS (18 May 2010)
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.
ROOM 2
10.30 – 11.20am
COMMUNITY CARE INFORM
Details to follow
11.30am – 12.20pm
To be confirmed
1 - 1.50pm
FOUNDATION FOR PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES AND GRAPEVINE
Getting and Keeping Community Connections
Despite numerous books, DVDs, PowerPoint presentations and training manuals about community capacity building, we still hear ‘how can we make it happen?’ This workshop will share learning from the Life in the Community Project and discuss how to make connections happen for people who have high support needs.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:
- Consider real-life stories of those who have achieved community capacity building
- Hear about the work of community connectors
- Reflect on how to adopt this approach locally
2 – 2.50pm
To be confirmed
3 - 3.50pm
ANNETTA BENNETT, CONSULTANT AND TRAINER
Supporting Children and Families Impacted by Imprisonment
Current estimates state that the number of children affected by the imprisonment of a parent or carer could be in excess of 180,000 in the UK. This workshop will explore how to identify and meet the needs of prisoners’ families and assist to achieve better outcomes for the children involved.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:
- Consider the impact of imprisonment on the children and families of prisoners
- Receive guidance on how to assist children and families to cope with the effects of imprisonment
ROOM 3
10.30 – 11.20am
SOCIAL POLICY RESEARCH UNIT (UNIVERSITY OF YORK) and CARE AND HEALTH SOLUTIONS
Organising Home Care Re-ablement Services for Maximum User Benefit
Many local authorities are transforming in-house home care services to provide intensive, short-term re-ablement instead. This workshop will present evidence from a national evaluation and practice perspective based on a model used in Essex on the best ways to organise home care re-ablement services and the factors that promote successful outcomes for older and disabled service users.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:
- Learn how re-ablement differs from intermediate care and long-term home care
- Reflect on the importance of team organisation, staff training and supervision
- Consider the roles of other professionals in contributing to effective re-ablement services
11.30am – 12.20pm
MENCAP
Getting to Know You: Advocacy for People with Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities (PMLD)
This workshop will showcase how peer advocacy is being used to meaningfully involve people with profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD) in decision making processes. It will be delivered in partnership with a self-advocate with a learning disability who is also a peer advocate for people with PMLD.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:
- Consider the issues faced by people with PMLD
- Reflect on accessible approaches to train peer advocates
- Learn how self-advocates with a learning disability can get to know and speak up for the rights of people with PMLD
1 – 1.50pm
NATIONAL AUTISTIC SOCIETY (NAS)
Autism and Ageing
This workshop will consider aspects of autism and ageing compiled by the NAS. Issues for people with ASD and their families as they get older will be discussed and service provision for individuals with ASD will be considered.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:
- Reflect on the issues for people with ASD, their families and services as they get older
- Consider best practice suggestions for successful ageing in autism
- Be introduced to person centred approaches to autism and ageing
2 - 2.50pm
STOKE ON TRENT CITY COUNCIL
What a Difference an Award Makes
3 - 3.50pm
RICHMOND FELLOWSHIP
Mental Health and Job Retention: Practice and the Developing Evidence Base
The influential 2008 Working for a Healthier Tomorrow report has lead to growth in services to help people with mental health problems to stay in work. This workshop will present the growing evidence base, and practical examples of innovative and effective provision from both a client and an employer perspective.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:
- Consider the developing range of job retention models and settings
- Reflect on how the RETAIN model achieves 70% success rate
- Hear a service user experience of using RETAIN and what a successful outcome meant to their recovery
ROOM 4
10.30 – 11.20am
CENTRE FOR EXCELLENCE AND OUTCOMES IN CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE’S SERVICES (C4EO)
What the Evidence Tells Us: How to Improve the Lives of Looked-After Children in Your Area
This workshop will present key messages from C4EOs' knowledge reviews for looked-after children to improve educational outcomes and emotional health, and increase the numbers of care leavers in safe and settled accommodation. It will explore tailored support services, using effective practice to deliver improved outcomes.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:
- Consider the latest research and practice for looked-after children
- Reflect on how evidenced examples can be used to bring about real changes and improve services for this vulnerable group of young people
11.30am – 12.20pm
HARROW COUNCIL AND CORAM
Placing for Adoption and Fostering
Details to follow
1 - 1.50pm
NCB AND THE CHARTERHOUSE GROUP
Bearing the Unbearable: Insight into the World of Emotionally Fragmented Children and Young People
This workshop will provide a background to therapeutic understanding of children and young people who are in need of specialist help in response to neglect, abuse and early childhood trauma. It will explore the concept of integrated and un-integrated states in children and young people in relation to a three-year project and related training.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:
- Reflect on why life becomes unbearable for children and young people
- Hear how practitioners can develop tools to make life more bearable for children and young people
- Consider the importance of needs assessments, treatment and management programmes
2 -2.50pm
ROYAL COLLEGE OF GENERAL PRACTITIONERS AND THE PRINCESS ROYAL TRUST FOR CARERS
Engaging Primary Care in Carer Support
This workshop will feature new learning from local partnerships, an evidence review and emerging messages from the National Carers Strategy NHS / council partnership demonstrator sites. It will help adult services planners and practitioners to engage Primary Care colleagues more effectively, understanding the health case for carer identification and support.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:
- Reflect on emerging evidence of the impact of partnerships between primary care and community care services
- Consider evidence from a recent literature review on preventative services for carers
- Explore examples and templates of practical tools developed locally in support of the implementation of the National Carers Strategy
3 - 3.50pm
SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE (to be confirmed)
Safeguarding Children of Parents who have Mental Health Difficulties
DAY TWO PROGRAMME DETAILS (19 May 2010)
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.
ROOM 2
10.30 - 11.20am
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH (to be confirmed)
Building Community Capacity and Putting People First: What Councils are doing to Build Social Capital
11.30am - 12.20pm
To be confirmed
1pm - 1.50pm
LONDON CHILDREN'S SAFEGUARDING BOARD
Latest Learning from Serious Incident Notifications and Serious Case Reviews
This workshop will share key practice messages identified in a study of serious case reviews, serious incident notifications and child deaths in the London area.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:
- Reflect on practice issues in their localities
- Gain a better understanding of good practice around child protection
www.londonscb.gov.uk
2 – 2.50pm
To be confirmed
3 -3.50pm
To be confirmed
ROOM 3
10.30 - 11.20am
To be confirmed
11.30am - 12.20pm
COMMISSIONING STREAM (to be confirmed)
1 - 1.50pm
COMMISSIONING STREAM (to be confirmed)
2 - 2.50pm
COMMISSIONING STREAM
OFFICE OF THE NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF LEARNING DISABILITIES (to be confirmed)
Supporting Families Affected by Parental Learning Disability
3 - 3.50pm
NSPCC
Raising Awareness of Child Trafficking
This workshop will explore how to identify young people who have been trafficked consider practice responses to this. It will also reflect on the forms of exploitation that children and young people who may have been trafficked can experience.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:
- Develop an understanding of how to identify whether a young person has been trafficked
- Consider how to relate child trafficking to practice through case studies
ROOM 4
10.30 - 11.20am
ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL
Social Pedagogy: How it's Supporting Good Residential
This workshop will explore a European model in social pedagogy that enhances the culture and practice of professionals working with children in care in Essex. It will consider how participation and governance working together can create a service that focuses on meeting the needs of looked-after children, which is both responsive and reflective.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:
- Deliberate on what can be done differently in their own practice
- Reflect how this model can make a positive difference to practice and outcomes for children
- Consider aspects of cultural change
11.30am - 12.20pm
ANN CRAFT TRUST
Forced Marriage of Children and Adults with Learning Disabilities
The forced marriage of children and adults with learning disabilities is, as with many other types of abuse, a largely hidden issue and likely to be vastly under reported. Little data has been collected on prevalence. Nevertheless, the research and official information that is available gives great cause for concern.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:
- Consider why children and adults with learning disabilities are vulnerable to being forced into marriage and why this occurs
- Reflect on the consequences of forced marriage and practice issues
1 - 1.50pm
FAMILY ACTION
Beginning Before Birth: A Better Start for Socially Excluded Women and Their Babies
This workshop will explore a perinatal support service in Southwark that provides intensive support to mothers and their babies throughout pregnancy and the first year of their child’s life. Its aim is to improve both the parent’s mental health and outcomes for their children.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:
- Reflect on how to access socially excluded mothers
- Consider the importance of building healthy attachment between mothers and their babies
- Hear strategies which are effective in supporting mothers and their babies
2 - 2.50m
HALTON BOROUGH COUNCIL
Social Care in a GP Practice
Details to follow
3 - 3.50pm
VOICE AND KIRKLEES COUNCIL
It's My Review: Putting Looked-After Young People at the Heart of Their Review
This workshop will showcase an award-winning project that has achieved success in positively including and engaging young people in care in their review process. It will explore how Kirklees measured a 23 per cent increase in the performance indicators on their looked-after children review attendance within its first year following training.
Delegates who attend this workshop will:
- Consider new and innovative ways to include users in care planning processes
- Hear ideas directly from young people about including in them in meetings
- Challenge traditional perceptions of reviews and inclusion
www.voiceyp.org
