Event name: Searching the Social Care Literature Workshop
Description: A practical workshop using social science databases and the internet. Jointly run by the Social Care Institute for Excellence and ESRC UK Centre for Evidence Based Policy and Practice. The workshop will allow delegates to gain a better understanding of the complex ‘information landscape’ in research and practice. Delegates will also gain a more indepth appreciation of the variety and complexity of free and priced social science bibliographic databases and gateways. There will also be opportunity to carry out practical retrieval exercises and delegates’ own search enquiries, and to assess the results.
Region: South East England
Date: 08/09/2010
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Event name: Personalisation and peer support
Description: This conference – the 10th annual event of its kind – will explore the mental health education and training agenda for both personalisation and peer support. This will be done through: • presentations on the key themes of personalisation and peer support • workshops concentrating on examples of education and training initiatives in relation to personalisation and peer support. Aims of the conference The overall aim of this conference is to bring together trainers and educators across the broad field of mental health to: • discuss and critically reflect on the training and education agenda in relation to the two key areas of personalisation and peer support • consider some examples of the effective delivery of training and education in these two key areas • encourage networking and the sharing of ideas. For more information or to book your place please call Pavilion on 01273 623 222, email info@pavpub.com or visit www.pavpub.com
Region: South East England
Date: 08/09/2010
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Event name: Behaviour Detectives
Description: Most parents have questions about their children’s misbehaviour. In fact, most good parents worry, fret, or puzzle over their children, at times blaming themselves or wondering where they have gone wrong. We would say “join the crowd,” as there are legions of parents left with uncertainties and perhaps lacklustre answers in their search for why children behave the way they do. This is especially true in cases of cared for children, as at times they enter homes with unseen histories of neglect, abuse, exploitation, or sometimes simply a lack of parenting. When carers confront nagging questions about these children’s behaviour, and go out in search of answers, they find they often come up empty. Parents and professionals alike need to ask the right questions, and seek the correct answers to help carers figure out and address their children’s misbehaviour. It really is being a “behaviour detective”: being a keen observer, noticing things that many other parents don’t, getting beneath what is obvious to noticing what is missing, and it involves curiosity, wonder, creativity, and a dose of healthy skepticism, all aimed at asking why the child does what he does, or doesn’t do what he needs to.
This training will blend theory and practice, presenting a model for unraveling such behavioural mysteries, and address thoughtful solutions and interventions for such unfortunately common behavioural problems as lying, stealing, defiance and opposition, negative attention seeking, and poor relationships. The focus will be on practical, straightforward ways of understanding such childhood mysteries, helping carers to get on the right track and find the elusive answers to the riddles of children’s misbehaviour.”
Region: London
Date: 08/09/2010
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Event name: Delivering High Quality End of Life Care
Description: The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) is due to release quality standards for End of Life Care in December 2010. This one day conference chaired by Dr Teresa Tate Deputy National Clinical Director for End of Life Care Consultant in Palliative Medicine Barts and The London NHS Trust and Medical Advisor Marie Curie Cancer Care, will focus on improving the quality of End of Life Care including implementing the new GMC Guidance, good practice in decision making and the new NICE Quality Standard.
The conference features two extended sessions discussing holistic needs assessment, advanced care planning, delivering and measuring a good death in hospital and delivering a rapid discharge pathway from hospital to home.
Region: London
Date: 08/09/2010
Last day: 08/09/2010
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Event name: Delivering Integrated Care: a practical guide to developing cost effective, joined up services
Description: Chaired by Richard Gleave Director of Programme Implementation NHS South West and with key speakers from the UKs leading integrated care partnerships. Delegates will be provided with a wealth of knowledge and practical experience around the delivery of integrated care
Region: London
Date: 08/09/2010
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Event name: 4th National Social Work Continuing Professional Development Conference - Integrated Practice
Description: What do we mean by integrated practice in social work? Does it refer to improved linking between services, as a response to criticisms of a dangerous lack of communication? Is it about ending responses from services that separate a person’s life and relationships into disparate areas? Integrated practice remains ill-defined and may be seen by workers as merely a threat to their professional identity. This conference will open up discussion around a range of dimensions of integration related to social work, grounded in the integration between research and practice. Speakers and workshops will consider integration between Health, Social Services and Education, integration of services across the lifespan, integration between adult mental health and the needs of children and integration between theory and practice. In line with the recommendations of the Social Work Task Force, it will refocus social work towards integrated, effective and innovative practice.
Region: London
Date: 14/09/2010
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Event name: Improving Children's Services in Scotland
Description: The Scottish Government ‘Getting it Right for Every Child’ approach places responsibility on local agencies to work together to effectively safeguard children and young people and meet their needs. Given the recent change in Government, Capita’s 2nd National Improving Children’s Services in Scotland Conference comes at a crucial time and provides the opportunity to address the new priorities and challenges ahead. This interactive forum brings together leading experts and practitioners to identify and put in place revised strategies to strengthen children’s services and improve outcomes for all children and young people. This event focuses on the key issues including: • The importance of early intervention • Practical examples on successful commissioning strategies • Safeguarding and information sharing challenges • How to increase parental engagement through learning • Promoting healthy lifestyles for children through joined-up working with health services Attend this conference to hear from the Scottish Minister for Children and get first hand policy guidance on how children’s services are being driven forward in Scotland. Ensure your strategies are streamlined to meet these priorities and take away successful practice to implement within your own organisation.
Region: Scotland
Date: 14/09/2010
Last day: 14/09/2010
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Event name: Forensic mental health and women
Description: This conference chaired by Professor Graham Towl of Durham University (formerly chief psychologist at the Ministry of Justice) will examine whether there have been effective changes and progress in delivering women’s forensic health services since the recommendations of the Corston Report of 2007. An update on progress post-Corston will be followed by an exploration of how the third sector will play a key role in delivering effective services to women who are forensic mental health service users. The third sector will be represented at the conference to speak about how they see their role developing in providing care and recovery services. A discussion will also explore what changes need to happen to deliver care and recovery services against a background of likely budgetary constraints. Specialised sessions will evaluate how early intervention and prevention strategies can prevent reoffending among the young female population. The approach to recovery in secure settings will be explored including the design and implementation of care. And a service user will give their perspective on current care and recovery practice. A panel discussion about the changes needed to deliver effective care and recovery against budgetary constraints will provide a forum for debate. Workshops will provide the opportunity to gain some practical pointers on offender management; self-harm management and reduction; recovery for long-term service users. Finally, the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health will present their evidence and research in the forensic mental health field. For more information or to book your place please call Pavilion on 01273 623 222, email info@pavpub.com or visit www.pavpub.com
Region: South East England
Date: 14/09/2010
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Event name: Forensic mental health and women
Description: This conference chaired by Professor Graham Towl of Durham University (formerly chief psychologist at the Ministry of Justice) will examine whether there have been effective changes and progress in delivering women’s forensic health services since the recommendations of the Corston Report of 2007.
An update on progress post-Corston will be followed by an exploration of how the third sector will play a key role in delivering effective services to women who are forensic mental health service users. The third sector will be represented at the conference to speak about how they see their role developing in providing care and recovery services. A discussion will also explore what changes need to happen to deliver care and recovery services against a background of likely budgetary constraints.
Region: London
Date: 14/09/2010
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Event name: Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults in Hospitals
Description: Chaired by Dr David Hunt, Clinical and Clinical Lead for Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust, this one day second annual conference begins with an opening address from Ann Close National Clinical Advisor Care Quality Commission focusing on safeguarding people when they are vulnerable in hospital as a key dimension of quality and safety, implementing No Secrets within health services and implementing the recommendations from the Care Quality Commission model of quality and role of the Care Quality Commission in monitoring safeguarding in hospitals.
Region: London
Date: 15/09/2010
Last day: 15/09/2010
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Event name: A Practical Guide to Improving Dignity in Care on the Wards
Description: The seventh national conference on Dignity in Care on the Wards will be chaired by Anna Gaughan Regional Lead for Dignity North West Joint Improvement Partnership who will provide delegates with a focus on developing frontline staff to provide care with compassion and dignity on the wards and measuring and monitoring dignity in care to improve the patient experience.
Region: London
Date: 15/09/2010
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Event name: A Practical Guide to Discharge Practice and Transfer of Carae
Description: Following the announcement in the recently revised operating framework for 2010/11 to develop re-ablement and post discharge support and ensure that hospitals are responsible for patients for 20 days after discharge, Chair Ruth Eley Programme Head Older People and Dementia Programme Department of Health will open this seventh national conference with an introduction to meeting the new standard to improve patient outcomes and reduce readmissions. Ruth will also discuss the 10 key steps for discharge or care transfer as outlined in the Department of Health publication: 'Ready to go? Planning the discharge and the transfer of patients from hospital to intermediate care'.
Region: London
Date: 16/09/2010
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Event name: Confidentiality and Information Governance
Description: The conference, endorsed by the UK Council for Caldicott Guardians, is chaired by Dr Andrews Harris Chair of the Ethics and Confidentiality Committee National Information Governance Board for Health Social Care and Confidential Patient Information - Governance of secondary uses London Inner South. Dr Harris will look at developments since the Caldicott review and the practicalities of sharing information and information risk. Delegates will hear about Information Governance and Confidentiality from the patient perspective. The conference continues with a focus on the practicalities of handling primary and secondary patient information including a legal update and developments in implementing the new GMC guidance on Confidentiality.
Region: London
Date: 16/09/2010
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Event name: The Future of Corporate Parenting in Wales: Best Practice and Reform
Description: Corporate Parenting is the collective responsibility of a council to provide the best possible care and protection for children who are ‘looked after’. But what does excellent Corporate Parenting mean for Councillors and Senior Managers? What is the difference between the roles within Corporate Parenting? And what challenges lie ahead for Corporate Parents in implementing the Care Matters agenda? According to Gwenda Thomas AM, Deputy Minister for Social Services, it is the belief of the Welsh Government that a child is best brought up within their families, but in circumstances where the state has to fill that place, excellence is essential.
This unique one day conference explores these issues with senior speakers from across the sector. It will give delegates the opportunity to be briefed on the latest policy and legislative developments, hear about best practice from across Wales and discuss ways in which we can all work together to give every child the start in life we would want for our own children.
Region: Wales
Date: 16/09/2010
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Event name: Living with Contact
Description: Almost all contemporary adoptions now include, as a minimum, letterbox contact, with many encompassing visiting contact with siblings, parents or extended family members. This workshop will consider the realities of living with such forms of contact for adoptive parents and foster carers and address the following questions: How can these arrangements be better managed? How can children’s behaviours following contact be understood and contained? When is contact too much or not enough?
This day is an opportunity for adopters and carers to openly discuss their dilemmas and difficulties with contact in a supportive environment with other parents.
Region: London
Date: 17/09/2010
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Event name: Social Housing Exhibition 2010
Description: This exhibition takes place at the Federation's flagship Annual Conference and is the largest and most highly regarded exhibition specifically for decision-makers from housing associations.
Region: West Midlands
Date: 22/09/2010
Last day: 24/09/2010
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Event name: Association of Social Care Communicators (ASCC) Conference
Description: ASCC is the only UK organisation that links and supports public information workers in social services and social work departments, health and voluntary sector organisations. This is the Annual conference, training event, AGM and awards ceremony.
Region: East Midlands
Date: 22/09/2010
Last day: 23/09/2010
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Event name: The Future of Services for Disabled Children: Best Practice and Support
Description: The Government wants disabled children to be a priority, both nationally and locally: a commitment confirmed in the NHS operating framework, the Child Health Strategy, Healthy lives, brighter futures and in the Children’s Plan. It has also made a commitment to make the UK the best place in Europe for children to grow up in. Currently 7% of children in the UK are disabled and steps must be taken to close the gap in achievement between disabled children and their peers. The government has made a great deal of progress over the past few years in sculpting the transformation progress for services for disabled children. It is widely acknowledged that the Aiming High for Disabled Children programme and Healthy Lives Brighter Futures strategy, both launched in 2007, was a real jump in the right direction and has successfully ‘Improved service provision across the board for disabled children and their families, enhancing equality and opportunity for them’.
This unique one day conference explores issues such as how to enable parents, the voluntary sector, health services, education and social services to work with each other effectively and also how to achieve efficiency in commissioning. Senior speakers from across the sector will address these issues in an open and welcoming environment. Delegates will be briefed on the latest policy and legislative developments, and essential advice on how to ensure partnerships between local services and organisations are effective. This conference will also assess progress to date in providing disabled children with the best possible services in order for them to achieve their full potential.
“We believe that we have reached a set of actions and proposals that will make a real difference to all disabled children and their families, and create a local and national focus on promoting the life chances of disabled children and their families.” - Lord Adonis and Ed Balls- Foreword, Aiming High for Disabled Children
Only £149 if you book before 1st September
Call: 0203 393 7394 or email d.goodstien@carematterspartnership.co.uk
Region: London
Date: 22/09/2010
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Event name: Social Work and Substance Use: Evidence Based Practice?
Description: This collaborative event, organised by the Tilda Goldberg Centre for Research in Social Work and Social Care at the University of Bedfordshire, includes expert speakers from the fields of Social Work and Substance Use. There will be plenary presentations and interactive workshops that will be both informative and engaging.
For further information, please contact Kerry Lapworth.
kerry.lapworth@beds.ac.uk
Region: South East England
Date: 23/09/2010
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Event name: The Future of Services for Young Mums and Dads: Best Practice and Support
Description: In 2008, there were 708,711 children born in England and Wales of which 25% were born to parents under the age of 24 and 6.3% to parents under the age of 20. Whilst lots of recent policy and media interest has focused on reducing teenage pregnancy (DCSF ten year teenage pregnancy strategy aims to reduce this by half by 2010), there is little that focuses on practical ways to best support young mothers and fathers.
A strong relationship between early parenthood and deprivation has been identified as an issue for public concern highlighting the need to look at what further ways can work to best support young parents; get back into education, have the emotional support they need, have adequate housing and learn the parenting skills needed to ensure that every child and young person born to a young parent is provided with the best possible start in life.
This unique one day conference offers delegates the opportunity to explore the future role all associated professionals will play in ensuring that all young parents are provided with the relevant information to give them the best opportunities for themselves and their children. It will facilitate professionals to develop the expertise they need, ranging from good parenting strategies to effective implementation. We will hear from trailblazing local authorities, policy makers, frontline practitioners and academic experts who will inform on best practice, development and future strategy. The programme is designed to be interactive, encouraging good debate and exchange of ideas.
Only £149 if you book before 1st September 2010 - Contact us on 0203 393 7394 or email: d.goodstien@carematterspartnership.co.uk
Region: London
Date: 23/09/2010
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