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National Children and Adult Services Conference and Exhibition, 29 November – 1 December 2023

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Day 1 - Wednesday 29 November

WS2 - Reforming children’s social care: Families First for Children Pathfinders

WW1 - Jenny Wood - Insights into the changing role of a Director of Adult Social Services (DASS) – with exclusive preview of the DASS handbook

WW2 - Alison Bulman - The importance of capacity and demand planning

WW2 - Professor John Bolton - The importance of capacity and demand planning 

WW3 - Innovation, impact and learning from Somerset’s Strategic Partnership for Children in Care

WW4 - Delivering a new Family Help model for families in Hampshire: translating policy into practice

WW5 - Chris Hobbs - Taking a whole family approach to domestic abuse

WW6 - Jenni Collis-Heavens - Preparing young people and families for adulthood, a collaborative approach

WW7 - Cat Duncan-Rees - Over a Brew demystifying co-production

WW8 - Melanie Crew - Carers and diversity evidence and practice

WW8 - Abinaya Kamalanathan - Carers and Diversity Evidence and Practice

WW9 - Nigel Minns - Supporting Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking children

WW9 - Colin Pettigrew - Supporting Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking children

WW10 - Ian Dean - Driving improved practice in response to child sexual abuse 

WW11 - Graham Woodham - Equity and inclusion protected characteristics in the workforce and professional development

WW12 - Dr Louise Oliver - Challenging culture violence against women and girls

Day 2 - Thursday 30 November

TP4 - Four steps to translating an ‘inclusive system ambition’ into transformed lives

TS3 - James Bullion - The case for fairness Preparing for Assurance in adult social care

TS4 - Helen Lincoln - Schools at the heart of our communities

TS4 - Tim Aldridge - Schools at the heart of our communities

TW13 - Gareth Young - Adult Social Care a career not just a job

TW13 - Geraldine Hodge - Adult Social Care a career not just a job

TW13 - Jennifer Pearl - Adult Social Care a career not just a job

TW14 - Nick Clinch - Artificial intelligence (AI) the future of prevention

TW15 - Professor Matt Buttery - Family Hubs-joining the dots of family support across the children’s services system (1)

TW16 -The Staff College - Just fair spotlight on youth justice

TW17 - Andy McGowan - No wrong doors whole family approaches to improving support for young carers and parent carers

TW18 - Dez Holmes - Tackling exploitation a principled approach for the whole system

TW19 - John Galvin - Older people's housing taskforce

TW19 - Kathryn Smith - Older people's housing taskforce

TW19 - Professor Julienne Meyer CBE - Older people's housing taskforce

TW19 - Sarah McClinton - Older people's housing taskforce

TW20 - Social Care Future and Research in Practice

TW21 - Catherine Jackson - Creating a culture of integrated workforce thinking

TW22 - Emma Ball and Michelle McManus - Multi-agency safeguarding moving from ‘everyone’s responsibility’ to a ‘collective responsibility’

TW24 - Catherine Mcleod - Delivering high quality and sufficient early education and childcare

TW24 - Jack Thomlingson - Delivering high quality and sufficient early education and childcare

TW24 - Jonathan Lewis - Delivering high quality and sufficient early education and childcare

Day 3 - Friday 1 December

FS5 - Caroline Baria - Diverse by Design for adult social care embedding fair values in the workforce to better support diverse communities

FS5 - Diverse by Design for adult social care embedding fair values in the workforce to better support diverse communities

FW25 - Glen Garrod - CQC assurance learning from the pilots and SLI approaches

FW26 - Andy Bell - Developing a whole councilplace-based approach to mental health support and care

FW26 - Lucy Wightman - Developing a whole councilplace-based approach to mental health support and care

FW27 - Ness Little and Sue Penna - Getting in early supporting whole family emotional wellbeing through trauma-informed parenting programmes

FW28 - Amanda Allard - Implementing learning from national reviews supporting children with disabilities and complex health needs 

FW28 - Florance Kroll - Implementing learning from national reviews supporting children with disabilities and complex health needs

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