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Forthcoming training, conferences and seminars |
Residential
Child Care 2004: progress through good practice
Wednesday, 13th October 2004
at Aston Villa Conference Centre, Birmingham
This conference brings together practitioners from local authority, private and voluntary, care, education and health settings to share in innovative best practice.
The conference will mark the development of the Children’s Residential Network at local, regional and national levels, and points the way towards having a national centre for Residential Child Care. The findings of two major reports will be launched:
• A national centre for Residential Child Care?
• Staff morale, qualifications and retention – England, Scotland, Wales and IrelandThis conference aims to improve residential child-care by:
• Being a rich resource to providers of good practice.
• Everyone attending getting practical ideas and making contacts that will support the progress of improving residential child care everywhere.Speakers will include perspectives from:
• Government
• Commission for Social Care Inspection
• Children’s Residential Network
• Young People
• Local authority, private and voluntary providersThere will be a comprehensive range of small seminars from the list of current concerns:
Missing from care; Behaviour Management; Monitoring; Medications; Healthy Care; Training; Education of LAC; Black and Minority Ethnic children and Residential Child Care; Physical Interventions; Developing a placement strategy across providers; Advocacy and complaints; Transitional planning
A wide range of displays and information from all aspects of Social Care will be available.
Who should attend?
This conference is aimed at everyone involved with residential child care across all sectors: Residential workers and managers in Statutory, Private and Voluntary settings; Care, Health and Education providers; Children’s Homes, Residential Special Schools, CSCI Inspectors, Local Authority Commissioners/Service managers, researchers, social workers, placement officers, Primary Care Trusts, Children’s Trusts, Trainers.
NCB Conferences and Training, 8 Wakley St, London EC1V 7QE
Fax: 020 7843 6039 E-mail: conferences@ncb.org.uk Tel: 020 7843 6042/6441 (enquiries only)
Volunteering England
Russell Commission Consultation Events on Youth Action and Engagement
The Russell Commission invites youth volunteering groups and community groups to join one of its consultation events on youth action and engagement. The nine regional events, hosted by Volunteering England, are an opportunity to share views and opinions and feed into a new national framework to increase the level of youth volunteering and civic service by young people.
The events, which run from 10am until 3pm are being held as follows:
Tuesday 26 October - London - Upton Park, West Ham FC
Wednesday 03 November - North West - Albert Halls, Bolton
Thursday 04 November - North East - Thistle Hotel, Fry Street, Middlesbrough
Tuesday 09 November - West Midlands - Britannia Hotel, Birmingham
Tuesday 16 November - South East - Brighton Centre
Thursday 18 November - East Midlands - Devonshire Place, Leicester
Monday 22 November - South West - Thistle Hotel, Exeter
Tuesday 23 November - Yorkshire and Humber - Galpharm Stadium Huddersfield FC
Tuesday 30 November - Eastern - Norwich City FCTo reserve a place at these events email kate.engles@volunteeringengland.org or telephone 020 7520 8901.
NOVEMBER 2005
“Residential Child Care - Building Resilience for Life”
9th/10th November 2005
Novotel, WolverhamptonSocial Care Association is delighted to be presenting the third annual seminar dedicated to the work of staff and managers in residential child care with public, private and voluntary organisations.
This year, we are pursuing the theme of ‘Building Resilience for Life’ in recognition of the need for workers to focus beyond their time with young people in the way they work and what they do. This event is a must for those devoted to best practice in the residential care of young people.
Key Note Speakers
Hilton Dawson MP,
Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on ChildrenDr. Sean Cameron,
Educational Psychologist, University College, London
Trish Kearney,
Director of Practice Development, Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)Sally Bamsey,
Manager of the Children’s Residential Care Unit, National Children’s Bureau
Workshops to include: -
• The ‘Service User’ Perspective
• Leaving Care
• Getting (and keeping) a Home
• Maintaining Contact with Families
• Getting past barriers to effective work
• Child Protection Strategy Meetings
• Peer Violence
• Bullying – new guidance
• The effect of Language Difficulty
• Positive Interventions
• Crime Concern
• Use of Standards in Workforce Development
2nd International Small Hands Academy / Küçük Eller Congress
is forthcoming to be held at “The Marmara Hotel” in Istanbul 26 – 28 November, with the theme “ Quality in Early Childhood and Primary Education”
The conference is aimed at a wide range of professionals, educators, researchers and policy-makers working with, and on behalf of children.
The Conference will provide the opportunity to access up-to-date knowledge and research
The call for abstracts deadline will be until November 1st and I am inviting you to consider coming, and to submit an abstract. The details can be found on the website at:
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