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Supporting Young People Leaving Care
06 Jul 2010
Ensuring transitions into adulthood and independence. Annual Forum. Held at The Bloomsbury Hotel, London
This forum provided the opportunity to hear from leading experts in the field to understand and discuss current revisions, build on current achievements and share best practice with other senior representatives from the social care sector.
Programme
10:00
Christine Davies CBE, Director, C4EO
Welcome and introduction from Conference Chair
What's on now:
10:05
Andrew Sargent, Deputy Director, Children in Care and Adoption Division, Department for Education
Opening address
10:15
Dr. Mike Lindsay, Head of Advice, Office of the Children's Rights Director
Care and prejudice: a review of recent findings
10:35
Panel session: Increasing consistency: effective partnership working across professional and geographical boundaries
David Holmes, Chief Executive, BAAF
Member, National Leaving Care Benchmarking Forum
11:10
Refreshments, networking and exhibition
11:40
Mike Stein, Research Professor, in Social Policy Research Unit, University of York; member, DCSF Research Liaison Group and co-ordinator, International Research Network on the Transitions to Adulthood for Young People Leaving Public Care (INTRAC)
Pathways to adulthood: the challenges of corporate parenting
12:00
Hassan Seddougui, Liaison Manager, St Basils
Successful transition to independent accommodation
12:20
Wendy Green, National Manager, National Care Advisory Service
Ensuring employability and raising aspirations: The Care2Work Initiative
12:20
Steve Bond, Service Manager for Looked After Children Services, Leicester City Council
Ensuring employability and raising aspirations: Perspectives from a Beacon Authority
12:40
Questions and discussion: Session 2
12:50
Buffet lunch, networking and exhibition
13:50
John Goldup, Director Development: Social Care, Ofsted
Overcoming barriers to ensure positive outcomes
14:10
David Bartlett, Deputy Chief Executive, Fatherhood Institute
Supporting care leavers who become fathers
14:30
Emily Munro, Research Fellow, Centre for Child and Family Research, Loughborough University
Ensuring children leave care when ready and prepared
Update on Right2BCared4 and the Staying Put pilots
14:50
Questions and discussion: Session 3
15:00
Refreshments, networking and exhibition
15:20
Seminar 1: Finance matters: practical workshop on claims, benefits and moving on and off benefits
Mandy Smith, Lead for Vulnerable Children, Government Office of West Midlands
Linda Briheim Crookall, Policy Manager, National Care Advisory Service
15:20
Seminar 2: Increasing skills and support for care leavers: Employment, Education and Training
Steve Bond, Service Manger for Looked After Children Services, Leicester City Council
Antony Mains, Project Manager, Leicester City Council
15:20
Seminar 3: Preventing social exclusion: care planning placement and case review for out of area placements
Stuart Lorkin, Children in Care Division, Department for Education
Michael Kelly, Principal Manager, Social Work, Salford City Council
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