Annual Conference 2018 Programme

Programme overview:

DCS only sessions will start at 1:00pm on Wednesday 4 July through to approx. 11:00am on Thursday 5 July.

Wednesday 4 July | DCS ONLY

TIME:	SESSION:
11:00am	Registration opens - lunch available
1:00pm	Plenary Sessions
6:00pm	Close
6:00pm	Bedroom check-in and networking
7:30pm	Drinks reception
8:00pm	Dinner

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Thursday 5 July | DCS ONLY

TIME:	SESSION:
8:00am	Registration opens
8:45am	Plenary Session
10:30am	End of DCS Only Sessions

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Thursday 5 July | All ADCS Members

TIME:	SESSION:
9:00am	Registration opens
11:00am	Local area-based education partnerships
	Speakers to include: Christine GILBERT
12:15pm	Networking Lunch
1:30pm	President’s Address
	Stuart GALLIMORE
2:00pm	Keynote address: Secretary of State for Education
	The Rt Hon Damian HINDS MP
2:45pm	Plenary session
	Speakers to include: Jasvinder SANGHERA, Karma Nirvana
3:30pm	Keynote address: Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Children and Families
	Nadhim ZAHAWI MP
4:30pm	Workshop Sessions:
	1. A workforce that works for all children
	Contributors include Sefton and Nottingham City Councils
	2. Developing commissioning placements for children in care
	Contributors include Alan Wood, Chair of the Residential Care Leadership Board plus Hertfordshire and Greenwich Councils
	3. Responding to parental conflict and domestic abuse
	Contributors include the Early Intervention Foundation and the DWP plus Dorset and Knowsley Councils
	4. A vision for an inclusive education system
	Contributors include Ofsted (TBC) plus Lincolnshire, Milton Keynes and North Tyneside Councils.
6:00pm	Bedroom check-in and networking
7:30pm	Drinks reception
8:00pm	Dinner

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Friday 6 July | All ADCS Members

TIME:	SESSION:
9:00am	Workshop Sessions:
	1. Supporting care leavers
	Contributors include North East Lincolnshire and Havering Councils plus the House Project
	2. Managing the market - social work MoUs cancelled
	Contributors include the DfE and the west Midlands regional DCSs
	3. Complex safeguarding responses
	Contributors include reps from the greater London and greater Manchester areas
	4. Lessons from the inspected
	Contributors include Oxfordshire, Bolton, Solihull and Greenwich Councils.
10:45am	Ofsted
	Yvette STANLEY, National Director of Social Care
11:30am	Children’s Services Funding - panel session
	Participants from ADCS, LGA, Newton Europe and DfE (TBC)
12:45pm	City of York Children in Care Council
1:15pm	President’s Conclusions
1:30pm	Close of conference and take-away lunch available

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Please note: The progamme is subject to change

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