National Children and Adult Services Conference and Exhibition 2025

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Wednesday 26 November 2025

A regional approach to child poverty reduction: Ensuring every baby, child and young person is supported to thrive and achieve their potential - regardless of their background or where they live

AI with ethics: Co-producing guidance for the responsible use of generative AI in Adult Social Care

Better Care Fund

Changing times for DASS leadership: Insights from the refreshed DASS guide

From loss to learning: How understanding child deaths can drive positive change

Partners in Care and Health - An ordinary home: Improving housing choice for people with a learning disability

Reducing reliance on restrictive high intensity support for young autistic people and young people with a learning disability: Key learning from a Partners in Care and Health project

Reframing commissioning: Getting transitions right for young disabled people

Regional Care Cooperatives

What do we know about children's involvement in violence in England and Wales and what can we do about it?

Thursday 27 November 2025

Beyond the baseline: Local authority assurance into the future

Birmingham Families First: Improving partnership working for children, young people and families in Europe’s largest city council

Courage v compliance: Working transparently with data and the citizen voice to inform CQC self-assessments and the improvement journey

Delivering personalised, creative and flexible social care alongside disabled people with complex needs

Getting the Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty right for children and young people

Improving provision for children with social emotional and mental health

Removing barriers in the Early Years: How BCP council and Dingley’s Promise support education providers and children with SEND

The future of social work: Training the next generation of social workers

Voice of the person in Home First: Lessons learned from six systems

What does a Fair Pay Agreement mean for Adult Social Care?

Working across services to build emotionally healthy foundations for the adults around children

Friday 28 November 2025

Progress and future direction of Children’s Social Care reform