Event name: Putting the Mental Capacity Act into practice
Description: Free Events: With speakers from the Department of Health, The Office of the Public Guardian, SCIE and a range of workshops highlighting both regional and national knowledge and experience, these conferences will provide an opportunity to learn about examples of good practice that have been developed in both health and social care settings.
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Event name: NEEC 2010 (formerly the North of England Education Conference)
Description: A key education conference. Since the introduction of Children’s Services Departments, the NEEC is now aimed at all the professions within Children’s Services; the major partners who help deliver Every Child Matters; Key politicians; and those engaged with research and higher education.
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber
Date: 06/01/2010
Last day: 08/01/2010
(multi-day event)
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Event name: Leaders' Forum and Exhibition 2010
Description: The successful and popular forum brings together chief executives and chairs to discuss the challenges facing the sector and offers exhibitors and sponsors a powerful and unique opportunity.
Region: London
Date: 11/03/2010
Last day: 12/03/2010
(multi-day event)
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Event name: Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
Description: A one-day training session on the main points of the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (the "Bournewood Safeguards") which are contained in the new Mental Health Act 2007 as they apply to participants' everyday work settings.
Region: East of England
Date: 16/03/2010
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Event name: National Autistic Society's Professional Conference - Addressing the Challenges Together
Description: This conference has been developed by an editorial board which includes experts in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) research and education and leading professionals who work with people on the spectrum. Recent changes in the ASD environment, including new legislation and better understanding of the condition, means that, now more than ever, it is crucial for professionals to be addressing the challenges together. This conference provides a unique opportunity for those working in the field of autism to come together, discuss best practice and share each others’ learning. Seminars include: "Dilemmas in the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorders", Dr Judith Gould, Chartered Consultant, Clinical Psychologist, Director, The NAS Lorna Wing Centre for Autism & "The evidence base for autism treatment", Richard Mills, Research Director and Hon Secretary, Research Autism. Contact: 0161 945 0040, or manchesterservice@nas.org.uk
Region: North West England
Date: 16/03/2010
Last day: 17/03/2010
(multi-day event)
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Event name: Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention
Description: Through a series of presentations, this one day conference will provide delegates with valuable knowledge of QIPP including: leadership for QIPP; promoting Innovation and benchmarking for QIPP; the role of regional Quality Observatories in supporting QIPP; Lean methodology and QIPP; and using improvement tools, shared decision making and care pathways to drive up quality, drive out inefficiencies and drive down costs.
Date: 16/03/2010
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Event name: National Memory Services Congress
Description: The first wave of UK memory services have been accredited by the Royal College of Psychiatrists for their achievements in meeting best practice standards. Through a series of presentations, this one day conference, chaired by Professor Martin Orrell Professor of Ageing and Mental Health London Centre for Dementia Care UCL and Associate Medical Director North East London Foundation Trust, has been developed to provide delegates with firsthand knowledge of Memory Services.
Region: London
Date: 16/03/2010
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Event name: Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults
Description: This eleventh national Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults conference will focus on Empowerment through the Implementation of ‘No Secrets’. A mix of focused case studies will provide examples of best practice and important updates on policy and legal issues that affect this dynamic area, including the Mental Capacity Act, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards and ‘No Secrets’.
Region: London
Date: 17/03/2010
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Event name: Agenda for Later Life 2010
Description: As part of the launch of Age UK, we bring you the essential conference for anyone with an interest in public policy for older people.
Just before the upcoming General Election the conference will highlight the policy challenges for the decade ahead and ask how experiences of later life should change by the end of the next parliament.
Book before 12 February to receive the early booking rate of just £299 + VAT, £229 + VAT for public organisations and just £129 + VAT for voluntary organisations. Spaces are limited so book now to confirm your place
Region: London
Date: 18/03/2010
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Event name: What Do We Want From Leadership? Social Work And Its Futures
Description: What kind of leadership does social work need? In the wake of the Baby Peter case, social work is traversing yet another crisis of identity and confidence. An important proposal arising from the work of the Social Work Task Force is to establish a national social work college. This idea has met with a broad spectrum of support, a sigh of relief that at last the collective hopes and fears of the profession may have somewhere to reside. However, arguably, social workers have always been ambivalent about leadership and the authority that is seen to reside within leadership or its institutions. Social Work is a highly diversified, contested and ambivalently situated activity. Efforts to create national standards and consensus methodologies for training and practice have often met with scepticism and resistance, and the relationship between social workers and their managers can be tense and conflictual. This conference will ask: What are the conditions that leaders need to create for social work staff to occupy their roles more successfully? Under what leadership conditions will staff take more responsibility for their work, and more responsibility for leadership from within their own roles? This participatory working conference will provide an opportunity for social work leaders, practitioners, managers and academics to engage in debate, contestation and problem-solving around these difficult questions, with the aim of generating principles and recommendations to transmit to the Task Force, as well as your local organisation.
Region: London
Date: 19/03/2010
Last day: 19/03/2010
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Event name: Be careful what you wish for: Families, drugs and alcohol: involvement or support?
Description: Since it was established in 1984, Adfam has worked to support families affected by substance misuse. Over the past year, it has been evolving into an umbrella organisation, committed to representing the views of its supporters to policy makers and opinion shapers. As part of this development, Adfam has consulted with professionals and volunteers across a wide range of sectors to gather information about the issues which are crucial to the future of family support. These issues inform Adfam’s manifesto, and reveal the challenges and debates for anyone who works with families where substance misuse is a matter of concern. Aims of the conference The Government’s drugs strategy 2008, emphasised the importance of support for families. But whilst recognition in policy is to be welcomed, challenges to delivering a cohesive and universal service still remain. The overall purpose of this conference is to present and debate the key issues for the future of family support, informed by intelligence collected from Adfam’s series of consultations - To launch the Adfam manifesto for families - To present new research about families and substance misuse - To present and offer an opportunity to debate the issues facing family support - To consider what family support and involvement looks like
Region: South East England
Date: 23/03/2010
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Event name: A Joined Up Future for Community Health and Social Care
Description: Government policy has increasingly focused on joining up health and social care (HSC) services, and recently policy development combined with pressures on public spending are likely to accelerate that development.
The creation of a National Care Service poses significant questions as to how the provision of HSC will be coordinated in future. The Government’s plans to transform community health services, and to achieve a shift from acute to community care, presents further opportunities for more joined up provision. The new Care Quality Commission, the result of a merger of previously separate health and social care regulators, is gearing up for the challenge of regulating a more joined up health and social care system. The Department of Health is asking how the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment of HSC needs can take greater account of the expertise of third sector organisations.
This conference is an excellent opportunity to hear about the latest news and policy which will affect HSC providers in the long term, discuss innovative new ideas for delivering high quality tailored services, consider the potential effect of public spending cuts, and meet with other HSC providers to talk about the challenges of leading a HSC organisation.
Tickets cost £190 and an early bird discount of £20 applies if you book by 25 February 2010.
To book please call 020 7280 4962, email events@acevo.org.uk or visit www.acevo.org.uk/springconference
Region: London
Date: 25/03/2010
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Event name: Practice Worth Sharing Events 2010 - Working with the Community
Description: These unique events are your chance to learn more about the projects that have impressed the judges and received Accolades for their excellent work and their contribution to improving learning and development in the social care sector in Wales.
Region: London
Date: 25/03/2010
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Event name: Child Trafficking in the UK
Description: A recent report from the Care Leavers Association suggests that over 150 children and young people went missing from local authority care homes last year, many of them being victims of trafficking operations. Figures from child protection charity ECPAT UK indicate that up to 60% of children rescued from traffickers later go missing from local authority care. This conference will consider examples of best practice in joint working between the public (including Children’s and Families Social Services and the Police) and the voluntary sectors, to effectively safeguard children from trafficking in the context of sexual exploitation, domestic servitude, forced labour and private adoption.
Region: London
Date: 25/03/2010
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Event name: No place for hate: Working together to tackle hate crime
Description: The Macpherson Inquiry into the racist murder of the black teenager Stephen Lawrence laid the groundwork for the legal recognition of racist hate crime. In the years that followed, laws recognising hate crime on the basis of religion, sexual orientation and disability came into existence, albeit with differences among the three countries of Great Britain. In addition, policy and practice developments vary, being more advanced in relation to particular types of hate crime than others. The evidence base for the more recently recognised types of hate crime is also at an embryonic stage. These represent significant challenges to our ability to tackle hate crime effectively. There is increasing recognition that policy and practice on hate crime requires appreciation of the fact that victims and offenders have multiple identities. There are limits to the current ‘equality strand-specific’ approach to tackling hate crime. There is parallel recognition that effective redress and prevention requires partnership working across different agencies and organisations. Hate crime is not merely the responsibility of criminal justice agencies. This conference explores the challenges and opportunities for taking effective action by bringing together the latest evidence, policy and practice developments across different sectors and countries. The conference aims to: -present the latest evidence to inform action -explore how efforts to tackle hate crime can take into account multiple identities - clarify what key statutory agencies are doing, the resources available, and the role of other organisations - encourage the sharing of practice and experience
Region: South East England
Date: 26/03/2010
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Event name: NIHR School for Social Care Research Annual Conference
Description: This conference will focus on key themes for adult social care practice in England. The programme will be available shortly.
Region: London
Date: 30/03/2010
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Event name: Personalisation and Diversity
Description: A study day exploringing the issues around personalisation in mental health and marginalised communities
Region: North West England
Date: 30/03/2010
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Event name: test
Description: test
Region: East of England
Date: 30/03/2010
Last day: 30/03/2010
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Event name: Drugs and Alcohol Today 2010
Description: Attracting over 1,500 visitors and supported by The Home Office, Society Guardian, FDAP, ADFAM, Drugs and Alcohol Today is one of the biggest UK exhibitions for professionals working in substance misuse. The event brings together: - The exhibition of 50 key organisations, projects and suppliers. - 12 seminars featuring ministers, policy makers, frontline workers, and people who use services, to debate changes in policy and current best practice. - The interactive zones covering: Arts, Training, New Drug Information. Tickets: £20 in advance, £25 on the door Call or email OLM-Pavilion for further information: 0844 880 5061 / info@pavpub.com Or book online today at: www.drugsandalcoholtodayexhibition.com
Region: London
Date: 13/04/2010
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Event name: Effective Discharge Practice
Description: This one day conference focuses on delayed transfer of care and is an opportunity to hear practical advice from leading practitioners on improving and redesigning the Discharge process to deliver high quality care and improve the patient experience.
Region: London
Date: 15/04/2010
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