Network with over 1500 colleagues and learn from 19 thought leaders BDC, London 15-16 October
Get up to speed with the law at our legal sessions
Energise your practice at our new Develop your interactive zone knowledge at over 30 free seminars
Event partner Event Learning sponsor Guide
www.communitycarelive.co.uk Let’s talk social work Medway Children’s Services are hiring!
● Practice Manager – up to £51,417PA* a great place to live, work, learn and visit ● Senior Practitioner – up to £46,521PA*
● Experienced Social Worker – up to £41,409PA* ● 34 minutes by high speed train from London. *salary inclusive of market premia payment. ● 90% of secondary pupils in good or outstanding schools.
The benefi ts of working for Medway Council: ● 30 days of free festivals and events each year. ● Retention Payment of £15,000 over fi ve years ● A ordable living in a beautiful area. ● Career progression scheme to support your continuous professional development ● Lease car or essential user allowance ● Free car parking Ebbsfleet London International MEDWAY ● Access to a Surface Pro and mobile phone, to support fl exible working ● Relocation allowance of up to £6,000 Canterbury ● Access to a comprehensive programme of training Maidstone Dover through our social care academy Tunbridge Folkestone Wells Ashford ● Dedicated administrative support International ● Confi dential employee assistance programme (Care First) #LetsTalkSocialWork Let’s talk medway.gov.uk/childrenservicesjobs social work Visit us at STAND 26 Introduction 19 BDC London 15-16 October Welcome CONTENTS Welcome to Community Care Live, delivered again in Welcome from our Let’s talk partnership with Essex County Council. Whether you event partner 4 are new to the event or returning, we know that you Welcome from our will find much to enrich your practice, refresh your 6 thinking and enjoy in the seminars, networking and learning sponsor other opportunities on offer over these two days at Welcome from our interactive Mithran London’s Business Design Centre. zone sponsor 8 social work Samuel, editor, Community Care This year’s seminar programme addresses many of Day 1 schedule 10 the biggest challenges, questions and concerns facing social workers Medway Children’s in children’s and adults’ services and their managers. Day 2 schedule 11 You can access over 30 seminars for free, with topics including Services are hiring! responding to modern slavery, supporting a person with an acquired Frequently asked questions 12 ● Practice Manager – up to £51,417PA* brain injury, safeguarding young people at risk of gang involvement a great place to live, work, learn and visit ● Senior Practitioner – up to £46,521PA* and supporting social workers with self-care. Legal learning sessions 14-15 ● ● Experienced Social Worker – up to £41,409PA* 34 minutes by high speed train from London. New for this year within our free programme is our interactive zone, *salary inclusive of market premia payment. housed in an inflatable dome on the exhibition floor, where learning ● 90% of secondary pupils in good or Interactive zone sessions 16-17 outstanding schools. will come to life in a series of theatre-based and mock court sessions which will leave you feeling energised for your return to work. The benefi ts of working for Medway Council: ● 30 days of free festivals and events each year. Children and families’ sessions 18-20 ● Retention Payment of £15,000 over fi ve years It is thanks to the support of our event partner, sponsors, hosts and ● A ordable living in a beautiful area. ● Career progression scheme to support your exhibitors that we are able to deliver such a wealth of learning for Adults’ sessions 22-24 continuous professional development free. Spaces in our free programme are allocated on a first-come, ● Lease car or essential user allowance first-served basis, and we would advise that you arrive at least 15 Management sessions ● Free car parking Ebbsfleet minutes before the start of any seminar you are particularly keen 24-26 London International MEDWAY ● Access to a Surface Pro and mobile phone, to attend. to support fl exible working Learning hub 26-27 We will also be running eight paid-for legal seminars, at which you ● Relocation allowance of up to £6,000 Canterbury can reserve your place by booking before the event or on the day. ● Maidstone Dover Access to a comprehensive programme of training Access to any session is reserved for those who have paid. Floorplan 28-29 through our social care academy Tunbridge Folkestone Wells Ashford ● Dedicated administrative support International Alongside the learning, do take the time to visit our exhibition, Bookshop 30 ● Confi dential employee assistance programme to network with colleagues new and old, explore a wealth of (Care First) opportunities with employers and learning organisations and check out new and emerging practice delivered by providers. Exhibitors 32-39
While you’re at it, do pop along to the Community Care stand (stand #LetsTalkSocialWork 24) to give us your feedback on the event and our other services. You Opening Times Let’s talk can also test your knowledge of key social work topics on Community medway.gov.uk/childrenservicesjobs Care Inform’s supported learning programme and give yourself the Registration Opens: 09:00 chance of winning an Amazon Echo or Fitbit. Programme Commences: 09:45 social work Event Closes: 17:00 (15 October) and 16:30 (16 October) Visit us at STAND 26 We are delighted to welcome you and hope you enjoy the event!
Join the conversation live - Twitter #cclive19 3 Welcome from our event partner – Essex County Council 19 BDC London 15-16 October
Welcome from Essex County Council
Event partner:
Welcome to Community Care Live from all at Essex County Council. As event partner we have evolved over the years alongside Community Care to provide a diverse range of workshops, lectures and masterclasses that will undoubtedly enrich the level of knowledge and debate in the wider social care community and provide the opportunity to learn something new that could make a Essex staff chat to delegates at last year’s event real difference to social work practice nationally. give them the best chance of leading safe, independent This year we have two cutting-edge masterclasses for you and healthy lives. to attend. From a children and families perspective, our Our award winning and British Association of Social session on fostering for the next generation (11.30am, day one, in the blue room) will showcase learning from Workers-accredited Essex Social Care Academy ensures how we have improved and continue to enhance our that our workforce has the best resources and high- fostering provision. quality and comprehensive CPD opportunities to do their jobs effectively. By ensuring we celebrate successes and good social work practice, we ensure our staff know Our adult social care masterclass is on Meaningful they are valued. Providing a working culture where the Lives Matter: strengths-based and person-centred importance of a work/life balance is understood and transformation for people with a learning disability encouraged we ensure our staff are happy and fulfilled. and/or autism (11.30am, day two, in the auditorium). This will illustrate how Essex County Council is transforming In Essex we continue to raise the bar with a commitment its workforce and demonstrate our early and innovative to relationship-based social work, direct work and social outcomes in helping and supporting adults in Essex to workers being at the forefront of change, and a core ethos meet their needs, enabling them to live good lives. of working with people in a respectful and meaningful way to address the complexities in their lives. You can also come and join us at one of our more intimate roundtable discussions in the learning hub We hope your experience at the event today will help you become the best you can be and if you believe Essex In Essex our culture, “Serious About Social Work”, County Council can support you on that continuing continues to underpin what we do, privileging us with journey then come and visit us at stand 19/20. creating the connections and relationships to change people’s lives for the better and speak for those who don’t have a voice.
Helen Lincoln, Our staff have always been our most valuable asset and executive director, children, we aim to deliver the best social work practice in order families and education to make a real and positive impact on the vulnerable people within our community who need our support. To do this we strive to ensure our staff are supported and equipped with all the most current and relevant skills, Nick Presmeg, tools, resources and knowledge, as well as the resilience executive director for adult and energy they need to work alongside those in need to social care
4 www.communitycarelive.co.uk Essex County Council is an inclusive environment to expand your practice horizons. we provide our staff with the tools and time to undertake high-quality social work, to make real positive differences to the lives of our residents
Benefits of working in Essex include: The most up-to-date and comprehensive CPD offer from the Essex Social Care Academy Mobile and flexible working arrangements Essex is an exciting and vibrant place to work with excellent transport links to London.
To find out more about working for Essex, visit www.workingforessex.com
DS19_6604_V2.indd 1 27/08/2019 11:46 Welcome from our learning sponsor – Hampshire County Council 19 BDC London 15-16 October
Hampshire County Council welcomes you to Community Care Live
Learning sponsor:
We are very pleased to be supporting Community Care Live for the second consecutive year as learning sponsor. I do hope that you will take the opportunity to visit Hampshire’s stand over the two days and find out about our approach to social work practice and what makes us one of just 12 outstanding children’s services authorities in the country.
I hope you’ll also take the opportunity to attend the Hampshire staff and delegates at last year’s event masterclass that we are leading on both days of the event. Social workers of all levels will be able to gain to build the very best foundations in skills and confidence an insight into how transforming social care practices to fully equip them for the challenges of frontline social and introducing new approaches and technology can work. significantly improve outcomes for children and families. The quality of our frontline staff and high standard of Making changes to our practice has meant that our practice have been crucial factors in taking us from ‘good’ social workers are also seeing the personal benefits, to ‘outstanding’. On our journey, we have been able to through the cultivation of a working environment that lead by example and showcase our own transformation allows them to practice efficiently and effectively and to programme to influence national policy. We are proud enjoy a good work-life balance. We are committed to to play a leading role in the transformation of children’s promoting working conditions that are safe, supportive social care nationally, as one of the Department for and encouraging, with positive team support and regular Education’s (DfE) ‘Partners in Practice’. supervision, including peer supervision. We are also continuing to invest in new systems and technologies, This is an incredibly exciting time to be a social worker at which make administrative tasks simpler and less time- Hampshire County Council. consuming, allowing our social workers to focus on keeping young people safe and protected. Don’t miss your opportunity to find out more on stand 22 and be sure to drop by one of our masterclasses – Our partnership with Community Care complements the 9:45am on Tuesday and 11:30am on Wednesday in the county council’s commitment to investing in its workforce yellow room. We are looking for more outstanding, experienced social workers to join us and help ensure Hampshire’s young We’re delighted to be back at Community Care Live and people continue to receive the positive intervention look forward to meeting you. and support which Ofsted has credited us for – all while working with and training alongside some of the best in the profession.
Although keen to attract experienced social workers, Steve Crocker OBE director of children’s services, this is not at the expense of creating opportunities for Hampshire County Council newly qualified social workers. Our pioneering Graduate Entry Training Scheme (GETS) is an entirely new way of supporting our social workers through their assessed and supported year in employment (ASYE), helping them
6 www.communitycarelive.co.uk Practical support – you will receive all five great 1. the practical support you need, including professional development, administrative support (in the form of a personal reasons assistant) and new technology.
Flexible working – we have embraced to be a 2. mobile working to make your practice easier and reduce the need to constantly Hampshire be in an o ce. We o er part-time working options to ensure you have the work-life County balance you deserve. Team support – our greatest asset is our 3. sta and you’ll join a supportive working Council environment with positive team support and options to develop experience across children’s our varied teams. Reduced admin – social work takes social worker 4. precedence over paperwork, and you’ll receive personal assistance with admin tasks, meaning you can devote time to Hampshire’s qualifi ed children’s making a di erence to communities and families. social workers are guided by a senior management team with Stand out. Be Outstanding – you’ll have combined experience of over 60 5. the unique opportunity to shape the future of social care, as part of an Outstanding years, in an Outstanding authority authority, sharing best practice and that is taking a transformative expertise with peers and neighbours. approach to its practice.
To see the latest vacancies, visit hants.gov.uk/childrenssocialworkercareers Welcome from our zone sponsor– Surrey County Council 19 BDC London 15-16 October
Welcome from Surrey County Council
Interactive zone sponsor: lessons from the evidence behind Surrey’s family safeguarding approach; how social workers can use motivational interviewing techniques to support families.
Surrey County Council is delighted to be a sponsor of Find out more about how we are supporting staff to work Community Care Live 2019. It promises to inspire and with families using motivational interviewing techniques at motivate the wider social care community, and give our learning hub event. attendees the opportunity to see and experience new approaches and thought leadership, which will contribute As part of our joint approach to working we have set to improving practice in their organisations. up the Surrey Children’s Services Academy. Its role will be not only to support the recruitment, retention and Our vision in Surrey rests on promoting the upbringing of development of our social care staff, but also to promote children within their birth families and working with those the development of multi-agency partnership training for families to ensure children can remain safely at home staff working with children and families in Surrey. wherever possible. To do this we need to work together in an open way with the child and their family to gain their We want to attract skilled individuals who are proud to confidence, identify strengths and needs, find practical work in Surrey for, and with, our children and families. In and achievable solutions and provide the right amount of order to do that we need to ensure that it is a place where information, advice and support. they can develop their skills and opportunities to grow and, most importantly, where they feel supported by their To support this work we have introduced effective family managers. resilience, which is our new approach to early help, and the social work practice model, family safeguarding. Our My senior team and I look forward to meeting you to tell masterclass on Tuesday 15th October at 9.45am will focus you more about our journey in Surrey and how you can be more on these approaches and how we are deploying part of that. Come and talk to us at stand 36. them in Surrey.
We will be sharing: how Surrey’s community vision supports practice in developing family resilience; Dave Hill the role of the children’s social care front door in executive director, children, families, building resilient families; lifelong learning and culture
Event hosts: Community Care would like to thank our event partner, Essex County Council, our learning sponsor, Hampshire County Council, our interactive zone sponsor, Surrey County Council, our event hosts, Somerset County Council and West Sussex County Council, and all our exhibitors for enabling us provide so much essential learning for free.
8 www.communitycarelive.co.uk Come and find out more onstand 36 Visit surreycc.gov.uk/jobs and select ‘Children’s Social Work’ Schedule Case Study Interactive Legal Learning Panel Discussion 19 BDC London 15-16 October
DAY 1 SCHEDULE C Children and families A Adult services M Management Tuesday 15 October
09:00 Registration and exhibition
09:45 Getting it right in Special Boosting family Transforming social Safeguarding What the latest transitions: goals guardianship resilience using a work practice to children research tells us and aspirations 09:45 orders 09:45 family safeguarding improve outcomes digitally 09:45 about social work Chloe Boobyer and William Dean, 9 approach 09:45 for children 09:45 Claudia jobseeking 09:45 Vanessa Hodge, Gough Square Tina Benjamin, Jacquie Steph How and Lucy Megele, author, Judy Cooper, Somerset County Room: Red Burke, Patricia Denney Marett, Hampshire Safeguarding Community Care Council Somerset SESSION FEE and Dave Hill, Surrey County Council Children and Room: Learning residents APPLIES County Council Room: Yellow Young People hub Room: Green Room: Interactive zone Online INVITE ONLY Room: Blue
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11:30 Supporting Navigating Mock court: Adolescents on the Fostering for the Motivational older the boundary presenting edge of care and next generation interviewing in people with between the evidence of preventing this with a 11:30 family safeguarding attachment Mental Health Act neglect in court systemic lens 11:30 Dr Barbara Canepa 11:30 and the Mental 11:30 11:30 Nana Bonsu and and Julie Macer- Alasdair Cant, Capacity Act 11:30 Lydia Guthrie, Joanna Nicolas, Hannah Doughty, Wright, Essex County Alasdair Cant and Change Point Elmari Bishop, trainer London Borough of Council Associates Sharon Bournemouth Room: Green Room: Interactive Croydon Room: Blue Davidson, Surrey University zone Room: Yellow County Council Room: Red Room: Learning hub SESSION FEE APPLIES A A C C M C C
12:45 Lunch and exhibition
13:00 Using innovation to keep families together and prevent placement breakdown 13:00 Sandra Curley, Hannah Farncombe and Delia Mann, Oxfordshire County Council Room: Yellow C M
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14:15 Building effective, NHS continuing Working with Social Work England: How I learnt to Using direct work system-wide community healthcare and disguised meet the new stop worrying with adults to effect partnerships that the legal limits compliance regulator 14:15 and love the change in families support strengths-based of local authority and resistance Sarah Blackmore, ASYE 14:15 14:15 adult social care 14:15 responsibility: 14:15 Colum Conway and Nick James, Carley Goodman, Debra Balfour and Tracy refresher 14:15 Andy Watson, Lord Kamlesh Patel, Medway Council Sharon Isted and Davis, West Sussex County Morag Duff, Geese Theatre Social Work England Room: Blue Melanie Noel, Essex Council Independent Room: Room: Yellow County Council consultant Room: Green Interactive Room: Learning hub Room: Red zone SESSION FEE APPLIES A M A C A C M C M C
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15:30 Trauma-informed Sibling Exploding the Working with Opportunities and Making a success of NAAS practice with placements: myths around people with challenges when 15:30 adults who self- lessons from information sharing fluctutating driving cultural Samantha Cameron, neglect or hoard case law 15:30 when safeguarding capacity 15:30 change 15:30 Hampshire County Council 15:30 Emily James, children 15:30 Elmari Bishop, Gwynne Rayns, Sophie Gilbert, Birmingham Deborah Barnett, The 36 Group Francesca Burfield, Bournemouth Government of Children’s Trust Pauline T-ASC Room: Red Bond Solon University Jersey Morris, London Borough of Room: Green SESSION FEE Room: Interactive Room: Yellow Room: Blue Waltham Forest Jan Williams, APPLIES zone Essex County Council Room: Learning hub A C C M A C M INVITE ONLY C M
16:30 Exhibition
17:00 Close of day one The programme may be subject to change
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DAY 2 SCHEDULE C Children and families A Adult services M Management Wednesday 16 October
09:00 Registration and exhibition
09:45 Engaging safely Mental Capacity The roots, effects How to carry out Modern slavery: Creating a and effectively Act: case law and and aftermath of effective pre-birth spotting the signs learning culture with perpetrators code of practice youth exclusion assessments 09:45 and taking action 09:45 of domestic abuse update 09:45 and gang violence Martin Calder, 09:45 Ruth Hardy and 09:45 Alex Ruck Keene, 39 09:45 Calder Training and Kate Garbers, Katie Sharman, Alistair Sherlock, Essex Chambers Chickenshed Consultancy Unseen Community Care Respect Room: Red Theatre Room: Yellow Room: Blue Room: Learning Room: Green SESSION FEE APPLIES Room: Interactive hub zone INVITE ONLY
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11:00 Break
11:30 Meaningful Lives Evidencing your Coroner’s court Transforming social Supporting Meet Oxfordshire’s Matter: strengths-based decision making mock inquest work practice to social workers children’s top and person-centred in written and 11:30 improve outcomes with self-care team 11:30 transformation for oral evidence in Luke Berry, Fiona for children 11:30 11:30 Laura Clements, people with a learning children’s court Butler, Andrew Steph How and Lucy Sass Boucher Annelies Henshall disability or autism 11:30 11:30 Cullen and Holly Marett, Hampshire and Kate and Delia Mann, Lindsay Derby, Amber proceedings Meena Wells, Bond Quirk, Browne County Council Collier, SelfCare Oxfordshire County Stevens and Jessica Solon Jacobson Room: Yellow Psychology Council Stewart, Essex County Room: Room: Blue Room: Learning hub Council Room: Red SESSION FEE Interactive zone VISIT STAND 29 FOR Room: Green APPLIES AN INVITE
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12:45 Lunch and exhibition
13:00 Responding proportionately when safeguarding adolescents 13:00 James Houghton and Catherine Mouatt, West Sussex County Council Room: Yellow
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14:15 Invisible in a The inherent Facilitating strengths-based What makes Acquired brain Delivering safe childhood of jurisdiction of the conversations that support a good social injury in adults: transfers of care neglect 14:15 High Court: what it independence 14:15 worker? 14:15 recognition and that support Jenny Molloy, is and how to use Carol Baxter, London Paul Shawcross, response 14:15 recovery 14:15 author, Hackney it in safeguarding Borough of Barnet, Debbie Somerset County Andy Mantell, Annelise Barns, Brid Child, Tainted Love adults 14:15 Brown, New Level Results Council Somerset Brain Injury Social Boraks, Alexandra and Neglected Alex Ruck Keene, Louisa Lawrenson, Guy Leaving Work Group Green and Michelle Room: Green 39 Essex Chambers Oliver-Watts and Caroline Care Council Dr Sue Copstick, Reeve, Essex County members Room: Red Paterson, Acting Out Brain Injury Council SESSION FEE APPLIES Productions Room: Yellow Rehabilitation Room: Learning hub Room: Interactive zone Trust Room: Blue C A A M C A A
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15:30 Implementing the Immigration law and Identifying and Safe sex for adults Child sexual Liberty Protection the Children Act: what responding to with learning abuse – rethinking Safeguards are social workers’ fabricated or induced disabilities ‘disclosure’ to provide 15:30 responsibilities? illness 15:30 a more proactive and Tim Spencer-Lane, 15:30 15:30 Michael Fullerton, Care protective response lawyer specialising in Stewart MacLachlan, Gretchen Precey, Management Group and 15:30 mental capacity, mental Coram Children’s Legal Independent social Regard Jane Wiffin, Centre of health and social care law Centre worker and trainer Room: Blue expertise on child sexual Room: Green Room: Red Room: Yellow abuse SESSION FEE APPLIES Room: Learning hub A C C A C
16:30 Close of day two The programme may be subject to change
Join the conversation live - Twitter #cclive19 11 FAQs 19 BDC London 15-16 October
Frequently asked questions When is the event? is a link to return to your account where you can add the Tuesday 15 October: 09:00 – 17:00 legal learning sessions you wish to attend. Wednesday 16 October: 09:00 – 16:30 (exhibition closes: 16:00) What is the dress code? Where is the event? The dress code is casual. Business Design Centre, 52 Upper Street, London N1 0QH Should I bring my CV? Please visit www.businessdesigncentre.co.uk/venue- You can bring your CV to discuss with any exhibitors who info/accessibility for accessibility and blue badge parking are recruiting at the event. information. For information on how to get to the venue visit www.communitycarelive.co.uk/venue Where do I pick up my badge? What is the event about? Once online registration is completed you will receive Community Care Live is an essential learning and an email confirmation. Please bring this with you to the engagement opportunity for registered social workers and registration desk at the event, either printed out or easily local authority directors, commissioners and workforce visible on a mobile phone, and then your badge will be leads. The two-day event has a wide-ranging seminar printed for you. Your badge gives you access to both days. programme and co-located exhibition where you’ll find Can I pre-book to attend sessions from the seminar key organisations in the sector including local authorities, programme? service providers and charities. You can find out who you’ll All of our free to attend seminar sessions are available see by checking our exhibitor list and floorplan. on a first-come, first-served basis only. There can be high Is the event still free to attend? demand so we suggest you arrive at least 15 minutes Community Care Live will continue to offer free entry to before any session you want to attend. the venue, exhibition and main seminar programme for all I am a student; can I visit the event? registered social work professionals and people in certain Free attendance is available for final year degree students other roles. and those in higher levels of education only. Students in all To find out whether you can attend for free visitwww. other years of study will be required to pay the conference communitycarelive.co.uk/entry-criteria. Anyone who delegate fee. does not meet this criteria but would still like to attend will Can I have a visa invitation? be required to pay the event delegate fee, during the online We do not issue visa invitations. registration process, of £395 + VAT (payable by credit or debit card only). If you have any queries, please email us at Will there be anywhere to buy food at the event? [email protected] or call on 020 3915 9444. Food and drink is not provided as part of your event There will be a fee of £29 + VAT for each of the eight legal registration, but there will be two cafés on the exhibition sessions if booked online in advance, and a fee of £35 + floor as well as Jack’s Restaurant on the upper level of the VAT for anyone paying on arrival at the event (payment by Business Design Centre where you can buy a variety of credit/debit card only). snacks, drinks and light lunches. Why are you charging for the legal learning sessions? Can my children visit the event with me? In previous years our legal sessions have seen demand No, due to health and safety regulations, children, including exceed room capacity, leaving many delegates disappointed babes in arms and those in pushchairs, cannot attend the that they could not attend their chosen session(s). In light of event. Attendance at debates and workshops is restricted this, and the costs of inviting the best legal experts to speak, to over 18-year-olds. Please note we have no crèche or we introduced a fee for attendance at these sessions in 2018. childminding facilities. How can I register to attend? Is there a cloakroom at the event? You can register for Community Care Live London 2019 at Yes www.communitycarelive.co.uk where you will complete Can I get a copy of the speaker presentations from a registration form. Registering for the event gives you free the event? entry to the event on both days, access to the free seminar Yes. A link to all of the speaker presentations from the free programme and free entry to the exhibition. sessions, that we have been given permission to share, When registering you will be given the option of reserving will be emailed to everyone who attended the event. If you and paying for a place at our legal learning sessions. If you attended a paid-for legal session, you will also be sent a link have already registered to attend Community Care Live you to any presentations for that specific session, provided we will have been sent an email confirmation. Within this email have been given permission by the speaker to share them.
12 www.communitycarelive.co.uk Together we can do more… Social work is challenging and rewarding. From supporting children and families from the very beginning to enabling our residents to live independently in later life, our social workers change lives. To achieve excellent outcomes for children, families and adults we know you need to feel supported as well. We’re looking for experienced social workers who hold onto their sense of purpose about why they came into social work in the � rst place: to make a real di� erence. This is a fantastic time to join us here at West Sussex County Council and we can o� er you so much in return. We could list all the bene� ts we o� er, but they simply wouldn’t � t on this page. Come and talk to us on Stand 4. We look forward to you joining us!
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WS32663 8.19 Legal learning sessions 19 BDC London 15-16 October
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widespread differences in approach resulting Day One 15 October in dramatic variations in eligibility rates from Day Two 16 October area to area. 09:45 – 11:00 A 09:45 – 11:00 C This session will provide an overview of SPECIAL GUARDIANSHIP ORDERS: the key issues arising in CHC eligibility MENTAL CAPACITY ACT CASE LAW LEGAL UPDATE assessments. Topics included are: AND CODE OF PRACTICE UPDATE What is a primary health need? Room: Red • Room: Red The definitions of health need and Bring yourself up to speed with the latest • Bring yourself up to speed with the latest social care need for the purpose of CHC legal developments affecting special legal developments concerning the Mental eligibility. guardianship orders (SGOs). Capacity Act. The use of objective risk assessment to Attend to: • Attend to: identify health needs in hybrid domains. Hear about the latest and most • Get an update on the key lessons from • Understanding how section 22 of significant court decisions affecting • recent case law related to the Mental the Care Act both permits and limits SGOs, including re: P-S [2018]. Capacity Act. the meeting of health needs by local Hear about potential changes to the • Learn what the implications of these authorities. • cases are for social work practice. Mental Capacity Act code of practice. SPEAKER: SPEAKER: • Learn what these developments mean Morag Duff, independent specialist for social work practice. William Dean, barrister, 9 Gough Square continuing healthcare consultant chambers SPEAKER: There is a fee of £29 +VAT to reserve your Alex Ruck Keene, barrister, 39 Essex There is a fee of £29 +VAT to reserve your place at this session. place at this session. Chambers There is a fee of £29 +VAT to reserve your place 15:30 – 16:30 C at this session. 11:30 – 12:45 A SIBLING PLACEMENTS: LESSONS NAVIGATING THE BOUNDARY FROM CASE LAW 11:30 – 12:45 C BETWEEN THE MENTAL HEALTH ACT AND THE MENTAL CAPACITY Room: Red EVIDENCING YOUR DECISION ACT The importance of siblings being placed MAKING IN WRITTEN AND ORAL together when in their best interests, or Room: Red EVIDENCE TO CHILDREN’S COURT maintaining contact when placed apart, is PROCEEDINGS The interface between the Mental Health Act widely accepted in theory, but can pose many Room: Red (MHA) and Mental Capacity Act (MCA) can challenges in practice. be difficult to implement in practice. This is It is often said that judges, not social workers, This session looks at what the law says on because it is complex to understand which decide whether children remain at home or sibling placements and how this can be piece of legislation to follow in a hospital or move into public care. But while judges make translated into good practice. Attend to hear: community setting when admission or care the final decision, they don’t make those and treatment might lead to an individual • A summary of what legislation, case decisions in isolation. being deprived of their liberty. Attend to law and statutory guidance says about This legal session will identify how social understand: placing siblings, challenging assumptions workers can produce written evidence for and myths. • The scope of the MHA and MCA. court and then give an oral account of this Examples of cases where guidance or the The key differences between the two • evidence in court. Attend to learn: • law has not been followed. pieces of legislation. • What appropriate evidence is and how How social workers can use the law How to decide which regime to follow in • it should be included in written court • and other measures to promote sibling different scenarios. reports. relationships, for example through How to provide a balanced account of SPEAKER: best practice in care proceedings and • Elmari Bishop, Mental Capacity Act the decision-making process, and how placement finding and the use of contact decisions have been reached. consultant and lecturer, Bournemouth orders. University • Learn how to deliver evidence in court SPEAKER: proceedings to ensure decisions are There is a fee of £29 +VAT to reserve your Emily James, barrister, The 36 Group place at this session. understood and why. There is a fee of £29 +VAT to reserve your place SPEAKER: at this session. Meena Wells, health and social care trainer, 14:00 – 15:00 A Bond Solon NHS CONTINUING HEALTHCARE There is a fee of £29 +VAT to reserve your AND THE LEGAL LIMITS OF LOCAL place at this session. AUTHORITY RESPONSIBILITY: REFRESHER Room: Red More than 10 years after the introduction of the National Framework for Continuing Healthcare (CHC), it remains a highly challenging area for professionals, with
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an application made by a local authority. Trafficking, no recourse to public funds, age 14:00 -15:00 A • Alternatives to inherent jurisdiction. assessments, and exclusions to support are just some of the areas where this challenge is THE INHERENT JURISDICTION OF SPEAKER: THE HIGH COURT: WHAT IT IS AND posed and where social workers can benefit Alex Ruck Keene, barrister, 39 Essex from a legal refresher. Attend to learn: HOW TO USE IT IN SAFEGUARDING Chambers ADULTS • The different areas in which immigration There is a fee of £29 +VAT to reserve your Room: Red and relevant social work legislation place at this session. intersect. The inherent jurisdiction allows higher courts to intervene in the lives of adults who are • When do service users qualify for vulnerable but do not lack relevant mental 15:30 – 16:30 C Children Act support? capacity. This session will cover what this IMMIGRATION LAW AND THE • How to identify when legal advice is provision means and how it can be used in CHILDREN ACT: WHAT ARE SOCIAL needed for children in care or families. adult safeguarding work by social workers. WORKERS’ RESPONSIBILITIES? • The law in relation to specific issues, Topics to be covered include: Room: Red including age assessments, trafficking What is the inherent jurisdiction and victims and appeal rights. • Local authorities are being tasked with the how has its meaning been clarified by How to represent service users fairly and care of more vulnerable asylum seekers and • case law? ethically while immigration proceedings refugees, and new government legislation are ongoing. • The criteria for vulnerability under the looks to change the complicated immigration inherent jurisdiction, how it applies in landscape post-Brexit. SPEAKER: practice, and how it differs from lack of Stewart MacLachlan, senior legal and policy As such, it has never been more important capacity under the Mental Capacity Act. officer, Coram Children’s Legal Centre for social workers to understand what • How the inherent jurisdiction can be their duties are under the Children Act with There is a fee of £29 +VAT to reserve your used in adult safeguarding work and regards to children and how this intersects place at this session. what the court will look for in relation to with asylum, immigration and EU law.
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New for this year at Community Care Live is our interactive zone. Housed in an inflatable dome, the interactive zone is where your learning comes to life, with a series of theatre-based or ‘mock court’ sessions. Topics covered include working with disguised compliance, youth exclusion and gang violence, and giving evidence at an inquest and in cases involving neglect. All of this comes for free, courtesy of Surrey County Council, who are sponsoring the Andy Watson, who is zone this year and will kick things off with delivering one of our the first session of day one. interactive zone sessions
11:30 – 12:45 C when confronted by resistance and Day One 15 October disguised compliance? MOCK COURT: PRESENTING SPEAKER: 09:45 – 11:00 C M EVIDENCE OF NEGLECT IN COURT Andy Watson, artistic director/CEO, Geese BOOSTING FAMILY RESILIENCE Room: Interactive zone Theatre Company USING A FAMILY SAFEGUARDING It can be a challenge to present evidence of a category of harm as broad and varied as APPROACH 15:30 – 16:30 C neglect. This mock court session will help you Room: Interactive zone build the skills and confidence to do so, and EXPLODING THE MYTHS AROUND In this masterclass, Surrey County Council give you a greater understanding of what the INFORMATION SHARING WHEN will share how its social workers are using courts require. SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN a family safeguarding approach to foster Specific topics covered include: effective family resilience that enables more Room: Interactive zone children to live safely with their families. • The language to use to describe neglect. Fears surrounding the sharing of information Attend to learn: • How to present the evidence effectively. can act as barriers when seeking to safeguard and protect the welfare of children and young • The lessons from the evidence behind • The use of chronologies. people at risk of harm or neglect. Through Surrey’s family safeguarding approach. • Using research in court. a mix of exercises, this interactive session • How social workers can use motivational SPEAKER: will help you consider the common ‘myths’ interviewing techniques to support Joanna Nicolas, safeguarding consultant and that can prevent appropriate sharing of families. trainer information. • The critical role of the children’s social Attend to: care front door in building resilient • Test your knowledge about the myths and families. 14:15 – 15:15 C facts related to appropriate information • How Surrey’s community vision supports WORKING WITH DISGUISED sharing. practice in developing family resilience. COMPLIANCE AND RESISTANCE • Receive guidance on where and when SPEAKERS: Room: Interactive zone disclosing information could or must Tina Benjamin, director for corporate To be effective, children’s social workers must trump consent, GDPR and data protection parenting, Surrey County Council build positive working relationships with laws. Jacquie Burke, director of safeguarding and families. Building such relationships requires • Become more confident in guiding and family resilience, Surrey County Council seeing beyond the immediate presenting educating other practitioners involved in Patricia Denney, director of quality and behaviours and working with the person safeguarding children. ‘behind the mask’ to build rapport, gain trust performance, Surrey County Council SPEAKER: and demonstrate empathy. Dave Hill, executive director for children, Francesca Burfield, barrister and children’s families, lifelong learning and culture, Surrey In this performance, Geese Theatre Company social care subject matter expert, Bond Solon County Council will explore these issues and provide you with an opportunity to reflect on how you encounter and deal with people who, on the surface, may not want your support, by addressing the following questions: • What is being resisted and how does resistance manifest itself? • What impact does resistant behaviour have on social workers? • What strategies can social workers use
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Management Interactive zone C Children and families A Adult services M Management to help develop your understanding of using 11:30 – 12:45 Day Two 16 October A strengths-based conversations to enable CORONER’S COURT MOCK INQUEST individuals to gain independence and self- 09:45 – 11:00 C Room: Interactive zone determination. Through short dramas where the audience It is more likely than not that at some point in THE ROOTS, EFFECTS AND gets to be the director, Acting Out your social work career you will need to give AFTERMATH OF YOUTH EXCLUSION Productions and New Level Results will bring evidence at an inquest. To help you prepare AND GANG VIOLENCE real case studies to life and explore the Care for that eventuality, we’re staging a mock Room: Interactive zone Act’s directive for strengths-based adult coroner’s court that will help you: Using a mix of performance and audience social care. Attend this performance to: • Gain an understanding of your interaction, this adaptation of Chickenshed • Understand an asset-based, rather than responsibilities. Theatre’s flagship Crime of the Century deficit-based, approach to working with production explores the high-profile issue • Equip you with the tools needed to individuals. appropriately navigate giving evidence as of youth social exclusion and gang violence. • Gain insight into how to enhance a professional at a coroner’s inquest. The performance draws on the stories of real your role as an enabler of individuals’ victims and perpetrators living in the middle SPEAKERS: independence and self-agency. of the youth social exclusion epidemic to Luke Berry, barrister, Browne Jacobson explore: • Learn ways to overcome barriers and Fiona Butler, barrister, Browne Jacobson resistance when putting strengths-based • How young people end up at risk of gang Andrew Cullen, pupil barrister, Browne conversations into practice. involvement. Jacobson SPEAKERS: • The potential intervention points on the Holly Quirk, barrister, Browne Jacobson Carol Baxter, principal social worker, road to gang involvement. London Borough of Barnet • Whether issues such as county lines, gang 14:15 -15:15 A M Debbie Brown, strengths-based coach, involvement and child exploitation pose New Level Results insurmountable barriers. FACILITATING STRENGTHS-BASED Louisa Lawrenson, actor, Acting Out SPEAKERS: CONVERSATIONS THAT SUPPORT Productions Chickenshed Theatre INDEPENDENCE AND SELF-AGENCY Guy Oliver-Watts, actor, Acting Out Room: Interactive zone Productions This interactive theatre session will use an Caroline Paterson, actor, Acting Out innovative workforce development approach Productions Have you 19 BDC, London 15-16 October registered yet?
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SPEAKERS: hold risk and develop skills when children Day One 15 October Steph How, head of strategy and operations have been exploited and involved with (East) and strategic lead for Transforming gangs. Social Care, Hampshire County Council 09:45 – 11:00 SPEAKERS: GETTING IT RIGHT IN Lucy Marett, principal consultant, Hampshire Nana Bonsu, systemic practice lead, London TRANSITIONS: GOALS AND County Council Borough of Croydon ASPIRATIONS Hannah Doughty, head of adolescent services, Room: Green London Borough of Croydon Supporting young people with learning disabilities to become adults can be the most 09:45 – 11:00 exciting social work you can do. Come and be inspired by Somerset County Council social SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN IN A workers and young people as they talk about DIGITAL WORLD 11:30 – 12:45 their lived experiences and how to strengthen Room: Blue FOSTERING FOR THE NEXT communities. Topics to be covered include: Social media and the wider online world have GENERATION • What’s important to young people with increased the complexity of safeguarding Room: Blue learning disabilities? children and young people. With care demand set to rise significantly in • How what we learn from residents can This session will help social workers the next decade and the number of foster shape the development of services for understand issues such as online exploitation households falling, Essex County Council them. and how social media is used to bypass is reinventing its approach to retaining, • The “You Said, We Did” approach to getting contact arrangements with birth families. It will recruiting and supporting foster carers. In this it right for people. also offer insights into digitally-aware practice. masterclass, you’ll hear how Essex is meeting • Listening to your residents by asking the Attend to find out: the fostering challenge, including: right questions. • How perpetrators of abuse and exploitation • How therapeutic fostering and systemic, SPEAKERS: use digital and social media to groom trauma-informed and relationship-based Chloe Boobyer, locality lead – adult social children and young people. practice improved Essex’s in-house fostering care, Somerset County Council • The signs that a young person is being service. Vanessa Hodge, principal social worker – adult groomed, bullied or radicalised online. • The power of the ‘Bear in Care’ recruitment social care, Somerset County Council • The risks and considerations around and retention campaign. Somerset residents who’ve benefited from children in care, contact with birth families • The use of Oasis Networks to connect foster the council’s approach and social media. families with wider networks. • How social workers can work with young • The benefits of Essex’s BASW-accredited people, their parents and families to training. manage online risks. SPEAKERS: SPEAKER: Dr Barbara Canepa, consultant clinical Claudia Megele, author, Safeguarding Children psychologist, Essex County Council and Young People Online Julie Macer-Wright, fostering service manager, 09:45 – 11:00 Essex County Council TRANSFORMING SOCIAL WORK 11:30 – 12:45 PRACTICE TO IMPROVE OUTCOMES ADOLESCENTS ON THE EDGE OF FOR CHILDREN CARE AND PREVENTING THIS WITH Room: Yellow A SYSTEMIC LENS In this session, Hampshire County Council’s Room: Yellow 13:00 – 14:00 outstanding-rated children’s service will share Adolescence is one of the most significant how transforming social work practices can USING INNOVATIVE WAYS OF entry points for coming into care. To mitigate WORKING TO KEEP FAMILIES have a monumental and positive impact on against this, Croydon council has developed a children and families. TOGETHER AND PREVENT bespoke edge-of-care service using systemic PLACEMENT BREAKDOWN Through the story of Katie and her family, principles. This has allowed practitioners to Room: Yellow the Hampshire team will demonstrate how make difficult decisions, hold risk and work practitioners at all levels can transform lives in partnership with parents and families, Oxfordshire County Council has long used and become truly outstanding by: enabling adolescents to remain at home where innovative ways of working in children’s social care to keep families together and prevent Taking a strengths-based approach to all previously they would’ve come into care. • placement breakdown. This session will areas of practice. Attend this session to: feature learning from its residential edge of • Transforming existing processes and • Gain an understanding of systemic practice care (REOC) service and explore the adoption practices in line with changing demands. with adolescents and their families. of its new family safeguarding plus model, • Working with multi-agency and multi- • Hear how this service was developed in the which will provide a strengths-based approach disciplinary partners in new ways. context of risk to adolescents outside the that addresses families’ underpinning trauma • Considering how individual practice fits into home. in new and effective ways. Topics to be the ever-shifting social work landscape. • Learn how social workers have been able to covered include:
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Children and families: Case Study • What is the family safeguarding plus model? 14:15 – 15:15 Day Two 16 October • The value of shared case management over multi-professional teams. HOW I LEARNT TO STOP 09:45 – 11:00 • How the model’s proven preventative WORRYING AND LOVE THE ASYE approach prevents children entering care Room: Blue ENGAGING SAFELY AND and improves families’ lives. For many newly qualified social workers, EFFECTIVELY WITH PERPETRATORS • Learning from the REOC service, through assessed and supported year in employment OF DOMESTIC ABUSE one family’s story. (ASYE) programmes aren’t delivering and in Room: Green some cases are causing them to abandon the SPEAKERS: Evidence shows that the majority of domestic profession. In this session, Medway Council will Sandra Curley, REOC team manager, abuse perpetrators are men who tend to reveal how it transformed its ASYE programme Oxfordshire County Council ‘specialise’ in violence, abuse and coercive and, by doing so, reduced the number of social control of their partners. However, they do Hannah Farncombe, deputy director, workers who leave at the end of its ASYE from not necessarily come across as violent to children’s social care, Oxfordshire County 14 in 2015-16 to just one in 2017-18. Council professionals. This session will explore: Attend to find out: Delia Mann, head of service, family solutions • Questions and resources to help identify (central), Oxfordshire County Council • How better ASYE programmes increase who is doing what to whom. the recruitment and retention of children’s The importance of recognising patterns social workers. • of behaviour as it is rarely just the one-off • Why successful ASYE programmes depend incident that drew the perpetrator to your on the whole service to work together. attention. 14:15 – 15:15 • How Medway Council used the knowledge • Techniques to engage perpetrators. and skills statement to improve the ASYE The range of domestic violence perpetrator SOCIAL WORK ENGLAND: MEET experience. • THE NEW REGULATOR interventions available, how they work, and Why consistent and stable ASYE experiences Room: Yellow • how they help as part of a co-ordinated create better child protection social workers. community response. This year there will be a change in the way SPEAKER: that social workers are regulated when Social SPEAKER: Nick James, advanced practitioner, Medway Work England takes over from the HCPC. Alistair Sherlock, accreditation manager, Council Respect Find out what the change means for you and the people you support, and learn about how Social Work England is collaborating with 09:45 – 11:00 social workers to get things right from the start. HOW TO CARRY OUT EFFECTIVE PRE-BIRTH ASSESSMENTS Attend this workshop to: 15:30 – 16:30 Room: Yellow • Hear how Social Work England will redefine regulation and anchor its work in social OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES Pre-birth risk assessments can be a highly work values. WHEN DRIVING CULTURAL emotive and complex task. This practice- CHANGE focused session will examine how to build Learn about the new quick and responsive • good relationships and work effectively with regulation system with open and Room: Blue fellow professionals, parents and other family transparent decision making. Jersey is a truly beautiful island and a very members to conduct detailed and holistic pre- different context for working with children • Hear about Social Work England’s birth risk assessments. registration and fitness to practise and families. Following the Care Inquiry Topics to be covered include: processes, professional standards and 2017, which made it clear that things needed approach to CPD recording. to change, the “Jersey Way” brings both • Understanding the difference between a opportunities and challenges relating to the pre-birth assessment and a pre-birth risk Get answers to your questions during a • need to deliver cultural change. Topics to be assessment. Q&A with the Social Work England team. covered include: What a pre-birth risk assessment should SPEAKERS: • • The challenges regarding recruitment and include. Sarah Blackmore, executive director – the steps taken to resolve this. standards, Social Work England • How to build good relationships to • Modelling behaviour and leadership enable effective, detailed and holistic Colum Conway, chief executive, Social Work strategies in partnership with the Social Care assessments. England Institute for Excellence (SCIE). SPEAKER: Lord Patel of Bradford, chair, Social Work • Holding the performance “line” as part of an Martin Calder, director, Calder Training and England improvement journey. Consultancy • Involving social workers in a co-development and design process. SPEAKER: Gwynne Rayns, head of service – quality, Government of Jersey
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11:30 – 12:45 13:00 – 14:00 14:15 – 15:15 TRANSFORMING SOCIAL RESPONDING PROPORTIONATELY WHAT MAKES A GOOD SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE TO IMPROVE WHEN SAFEGUARDING WORKER? OUTCOMES FOR CHILDREN ADOLESCENTS Room: Yellow Room: Yellow Room: Yellow In this illuminating talk, Somerset County In this session, Hampshire County Council’s Safeguarding adolescents is a complex and Council will explore what the children and outstanding-rated children’s service will share challenging area of practice. This practice- families it works with feel makes a good social how transforming social work practices can focused talk looks at how social workers can worker and how their feedback has informed have a monumental and positive impact on manage risk, engage young people in planning service development. Join Somerset’s principal children and families. and develop proportionate responses when social worker and young people who have Through the story of Katie and her family, safeguarding adolescents. taken part in the council’s “You Said, We Did” the Hampshire team will demonstrate how Topics include: approach to find out: practitioners at all levels can transform lives • Assessing a young person’s circumstances • What children and young people believe is and become truly outstanding by: within context. important in a social worker. • Taking a strengths-based approach to all • Intervention, care and safety planning for • How what we learn from children and young areas of practice. young people who experience intra- and people can shape services. • Transforming existing processes and extra-familial harm. • How “You Said, We Did” helps children and practices in line with changing demands. • Working within the statutory and legal families get the right support. • Working with multi-agency and multi- context. SPEAKERS: disciplinary partners in new ways. SPEAKERS: Paul Shallcross, principal social worker and • Considering how individual practice James Houghton, group manager, West strategic manager for quality assurance – fits into the ever-shifting social work Sussex County Council children’s social care, Somerset County Council landscape. Catherine Mouatt, service development Young people from Somerset Leaving Care SPEAKERS: manager, West Sussex County Council Council Steph How, head of strategy and operations (East) and strategic lead for Transforming Social Care, Hampshire County Council Lucy Marett, principal consultant, Hampshire County Council 14:15 – 15:15
INVISIBLE IN A CHILDHOOD OF 15:30 – 16:30 NEGLECT Room: Green IDENTIFYING AND RESPONDING TO 11:30 – 12:45 FABRICATED OR INDUCED ILLNESS Join Jenny Molloy, the author of Hackney SUPPORTING SOCIAL WORKERS Child, as she draws out the lessons for Room: Yellow WITH SELF-CARE social workers from her own experiences of Fabricated or induced illness is one of the Room: Blue childhood neglect and the care system. In this most challenging presentations of child abuse eye-opening session, Jenny will share: social workers can encounter and it can have Research by Community Care and Unison a severe and long-term impact on children’s found 80% of social workers suffered Her own lived experience of childhood • health. emotional distress on just one day in 2016. neglect. It can involve parents or carers deliberately Self-care and an awareness of professional What and who in the care system helped • causing a child’s illness or injury, or falsely trauma and fatigue is essential as a response her to recover and become a successful reporting symptoms of an illness and to distress, replenishing emotional resources adult. and preventing exhaustion. presenting the child for unnecessary medical • The practical lessons today’s social workers tests. This session will cover: should take from her experience of neglect In this practice-focused talk, social workers will The evidence base for self-care: does it have and care when supporting looked-after • learn about: an impact? children. The main forms of fabricated or induced Ideas on how to create a culture of self- SPEAKER: • • illness, what they involve and the types of care, alongside peer support, as part of Jenny Molloy, author, Hackney Child, Tainted behaviours they can include. supervision and individually Love and Neglected The signs that may indicate a child is SPEAKERS: • experiencing fabricated or induced illness. Sass Boucher, research director, SelfCare Psychology • What to do if you suspect fabricated or induced illness is happening and how to Kate Collier, practice and development work with non-social work colleagues to director, SelfCare Psychology protect a child. SPEAKER: Gretchen Precey, independent social worker and trainer
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Adults’ services: Case Study • How attachment theory can help social • Hear about Social Work England’s Day One 15 October care staff to work effectively with the wider registration and fitness to practise family and social systems. processes, professional standards and 09:45 – 11:00 SPEAKER: approach to CPD recording. Lydia Guthrie, co-director, Change Point • Get answers to your questions during a GETTING IT RIGHT IN Q&A with the Social Work England team. TRANSITIONS: GOALS AND SPEAKERS: ASPIRATIONS 14:15 – 15:15 Room: Green Sarah Blackmore, executive director – BUILDING EFFECTIVE SYSTEM- standards, Social Work England Supporting young people with learning WIDE COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS disabilities to become adults can be the most Colum Conway, chief executive, Social Work THAT SUPPORT STRENGTHS- England exciting social work you can do. Come and be BASED ADULT SOCIAL CARE inspired by Somerset County Council social Lord Patel of Bradford, chair, Social Work workers and young people as they talk about Room: Green England their lived experiences and how to strengthen In this session, West Sussex County communities. Topics to be covered include: Council adult social care will explore how • What’s important to young people with it approached the challenge of delivering learning disabilities? strengths-based, community-led support in a truly person-centred way by working across How what we learn from residents can • directorates and partnerships. 15:30 – 16:30 shape the development of services for them. Attend to hear: TRAUMA-INFORMED PRACTICE • The “You Said, We Did” approach to getting • How West Sussex is changing its WITH ADULTS WHO SELF-NEGLECT it right for people. relationship with service users and its OR HOARD practice approach through a ‘silent Listening to your residents by asking the Room: Green • revolution’. right questions. Adults who self-neglect or hoard have often How the service is using strengths-based SPEAKERS: • undergone a traumatic experience and an conversations and connecting people within incorrect intervention can cause further Chloe Boobyer, locality lead – adult social their communities. care, Somerset County Council trauma. Practitioners need to understand • From leaders in the system, practitioners the historical context of the trauma that Vanessa Hodge, principal social worker – and community partnership officers about precipitated their subsequent behaviours. adult social care, Somerset County Council how they work together to deliver change Attend to: at local level. Somerset residents who’ve benefited from • Gain an understanding of complex trauma the council’s approach SPEAKERS: and its effect on attachment. Debra Balfour, head of partnerships and • Hear how to identify trauma among adults communities, West Sussex County Council with a focus on those who self-neglect or
Tracy Davis, principal social worker, West hoard. Sussex County Council • Learn how social workers should respond differently to someone who self-neglects 11:30 – 12:45 or hoards when it is connected to trauma rather than a disability or mental health SUPPORTING OLDER PEOPLE issue. USING ATTACHMENT-INFORMED 14:15 – 15:15 APPROACHES • Get practical tips on working in a trauma- informed way. Room: Green SOCIAL WORK ENGLAND: MEET THE NEW REGULATOR SPEAKER: The significance of attachment theory for older people can be overlooked. However, Room: Yellow Deborah Barnett, managing director, T-ASC its relevance is evident in the experiences of This year there will be a change in the way many older people who face the challenges of that social workers are regulated when Social adapting to new ways of living and changes in Work England takes over from the HCPC. their family and social networks. Find out what the change means for you and This session will draw upon speaker Lydia the people you support, and learn about how Guthrie and Imogen Blood’s 2018 book, Social Work England is collaborating with Supporting Older People Using Attachment- social workers to get things right from the Informed and Strengths-Based Approaches, to start. cover: Attend this workshop to: • How an enhanced understanding of • Hear how Social Work England will redefine attachment theory can empower social care regulation and anchor its work in social staff and improve the care and support of work values. older people. • Learn about the new quick and responsive • How attachment theory can help to support regulation system with open and relationship-based practice with older transparent decision making. people.
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Adults’ services: Case Study Amber Stevens, team manager – adult social 15:30 – 16:30 09:45 – 11:00 care, Essex County Council HOW TO WORK WITH PEOPLE MODERN SLAVERY: SPOTTING THE Jessica Stewart, head of commissioning, WITH FLUCTUATING CAPACITY SIGNS AND TAKING APPROPRIATE Essex County Council Room: Yellow ACTION Fluctuating capacity is not a concept Room: Blue addressed in the Mental Capacity Act 2005 Awareness of the problem of modern slavery and is only briefly covered in the code of has grown significantly in recent years, but it practice, but it poses significant challenges for remains a challenging area for social workers 11:30 – 12:45 practitioners in how they work with people to navigate in terms of identifying and whose ability to make decisions can change. supporting victims, understanding the law, SUPPORTING SOCIAL WORKERS Attend to learn: and inter-agency working. This talk will: WITH SELF-CARE • What fluctuating capacity is and how it can • Review social workers’ duties under the Room: Blue be distinguished from a temporary lack of Modern Slavery Act 2015 and how well they Research by Community Care and Unison capacity. are being met. found 80% of social workers suffered • Which conditions are associated with • Provide guidance on signs of modern emotional distress on just one day in 2016. fluctuating capacity and how it presents in slavery and what you should do if you Self-care and an awareness of professional each case. suspect someone is being trafficked or trauma and fatigue is essential as a response • How to apply the five principles of the enslaved. to distress, replenishing emotional resources Mental Capacity Act in cases where a • Offer practical tips on working sensitively and preventing exhaustion. person has fluctuating capacity. with victims of modern slavery and how This session will cover: • Lessons from case law in relation to to overcome the barriers to engaging with • The evidence base for self-care: does it have fluctuating capacity. them. an impact? SPEAKER: SPEAKER: • Ideas on how to create a culture of self- Elmari Bishop, Mental Capacity Act consultant Kate Garbers, director, Unseen care, alongside peer support, as part of and lecturer, Bournemouth University supervision and individually 11:30 – 12:45 SPEAKERS: Sass Boucher, research director, SelfCare Day Two 16 October MEANINGFUL LIVES MATTER: Psychology STRENGTHS-BASED AND PERSON- Kate Collier, practice and development 09:45 – 11:00 CENTRED TRANSFORMATION FOR PEOPLE WITH A LEARNING director, SelfCare Psychology ENGAGING SAFELY AND DISABILITY AND/OR AUTISM EFFECTIVELY WITH PERPETRATORS Room: Green 14:15 – 15:15 OF DOMESTIC ABUSE Learn how social workers in Essex are Room: Green ACQUIRED BRAIN INJURY IN working with people with a learning disability ADULTS: RECOGNITION AND Evidence shows that the majority of domestic and/or autism to hack the adult social RESPONSE abuse perpetrators are men who tend to care system and rewrite the rules of co- Room: Blue ‘specialise’ in violence, abuse and coercive production. In this exciting and interactive control of their partners. However, they do masterclass, Essex will share how its 100 The World Health Organization predicts that not necessarily come across as violent to Days’ Challenge is giving birth to innovative acquired brain injury (ABI) will be the third professionals. This session will explore: approaches that make life better for people most common global health burden by 2020. • Questions and resources to help identify with a learning disability and/or autism. And with adults with ABI living longer with more complex needs, it’s important social who is doing what to whom. Attend to hear: workers are able to recognise when someone The importance of recognising patterns • • How the council’s Meaningful Lives Matter has an ABI and are confident in assessing of behaviour as it is rarely just the one-off programme is transforming frontline them to ensure they get the right support. incident that drew the perpetrator to your practice using a strengths-based and This talk will cover: attention. person-centred approach. What ABI is and the primary difficulties that • Techniques to engage perpetrators. The innovative initiatives that emerged • • arise from the condition. • The range of domestic violence perpetrator from the 100 Days’ Challenge including interventions available, how they work, and Pazazz Pioneers, Smashing Barriers and • How to identify whether someone has an how they help as part of a co-ordinated Island Community Challengers. ABI and what to ask when it’s suspected. community response. • How these initiatives give residents • How to assess someone with suspected or SPEAKER: with a learning disability and/or autism diagnosed ABI using the Brain Injury Needs Indicator alongside a Care Act assessment. Alistair Sherlock, accreditation manager, meaningful and sustainable control over Respect their lives. SPEAKERS: • How Meaningful Lives Matter works across Andy Mantell, trustee, Brain Injury Social the whole life pathway. Work Group SPEAKERS: Dr Sue Copstick, clinical director, Brain Injury Lindsay Derby, team manager – adult social Rehabilitation Trust, The Disabilities Trust care, Essex County Council
Please note, details of the legal learning seminars are on pages 14-15, those of the interactive zone seminars are on pages 16-17 and those of the learning hub sessions are on pages 26-27.
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Adults’ services: Case Study How to balance risks and rights. process for authorising the deprivation of 15:30 – 16:30 • • How to keep clients safe while online. liberty of those who lack the relevant capacity. Authorisations can be given by NHS bodies SAFE SEX FOR ADULTS WITH How to spot the signs that someone might • and local authorities, and the scheme can be LEARNING DISABILITIES be being groomed or at risk of online sexual applied in any setting and in relation to multiple Room: Blue exploitation, and – when risk is confirmed arrangements. Adults with learning disabilities often don’t – how to unpick what is happening, who is The government has announced that the LPS receive sex education, which means social involved, and protect the individual. will come into force on 1 October 2020. This workers are often left trying to strike a balance SPEAKER: session, hosted by Community Care Inform, will between service users’ rights to have a sexual Michael Fullerton, clinical director, Care enable you to: relationship and any potential risks of doing so. Management Group & Regard Understand the key feature of the LPS Lack of sex education also puts this client • scheme. group at risk of online sexual exploitation. As social media becomes ever more popular and 15:30 – 16:30 • Consider the main challenges for social fast changing, the risks for vulnerable adults IMPLEMENTING THE LIBERTY workers. become greater. This session will help you PROTECTION SAFEGUARDS • Discuss contentious issues, including the role understand: of care home managers. Room: Green • The barriers to having a sexual relationship • Look ahead to the transitional arrangements. for adults with learning disabilities and how The Mental Capacity (Amendment) Act 2019 Think about the next steps for you and your social workers can address these barriers. provides for the repeal of the Deprivation of • Liberty Safeguards and their replacement with organisations to consider. How to have difficult conversations with • a new scheme called the Liberty Protection SPEAKER: parents when they are reluctant for their Safeguards (LPS). The LPS are intended to Tim Spencer-Lane, lawyer specialising in mental adult child to have a sexual relationship. provide a more streamlined and efficient capacity, mental health and social care law
Management: Case Study
Day One 15 October 11:30 – 12:45 11:30 – 12:45 ADOLESCENTS ON THE EDGE OF FOSTERING FOR THE NEXT 09:45 – 11:00 CARE AND PREVENTING THIS WITH GENERATION A SYSTEMIC LENS Room: Blue TRANSFORMING SOCIAL WORK Room: Yellow PRACTICE TO IMPROVE OUTCOMES With care demand set to rise significantly in FOR CHILDREN Adolescence is one of the most significant the next decade and the number of foster entry points for coming into care. To mitigate households falling, Essex County Council Room: Yellow against this, Croydon council has developed a is reinventing its approach to retaining, In this session, Hampshire County Council’s bespoke edge-of-care service using systemic recruiting and supporting foster carers. In this outstanding-rated children’s service will share principles. This has allowed practitioners to masterclass, you’ll hear how Essex is meeting how transforming social work practices can make difficult decisions, hold risk and work the fostering challenge, including: have a monumental and positive impact on in partnership with parents and families, • How therapeutic fostering and systemic, children and families. enabling adolescents to remain at home trauma-informed and relationship-based Through the story of Katie and her family, where previously they would’ve come into practice improved Essex’s in-house fostering the Hampshire team will demonstrate how care. service. practitioners at all levels can transform lives Attend this session to: • The power of the ‘Bear in Care’ recruitment and become truly outstanding by: • Gain an understanding of systemic practice and retention campaign. • Taking a strengths-based approach to all with adolescents and their families. • The use of Oasis Networks to connect areas of practice. • Hear how this service was developed in the foster families with wider networks. • Transforming existing processes and context of risk to adolescents outside the • The benefits of Essex’s BASW-accredited practices in line with changing demands. home. training. • Working with multi-agency and multi- • Learn how social workers have been disciplinary partners in new ways. able to hold risk and develop skills when SPEAKERS: Dr Barbara Canepa, consultant clinical Considering how individual practice fits into children have been exploited and involved • psychologist, Essex County Council the ever-shifting social work landscape. with gangs. Julie Macer-Wright, fostering service SPEAKERS: SPEAKERS: manager, Essex County Council Steph How, head of strategy and operations Nana Bonsu, systemic practice lead, London (East) and strategic lead for Transforming Social Borough of Croydon Care, Hampshire County Council Hannah Doughty, head of adolescent Lucy Marett, principal consultant, Hampshire services, London Borough of Croydon County Council
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Management: Case Study programme and, by doing so, reduced the 13:00 - 14:00 community partnership officers about how number of social workers who leave at the they work together to deliver change. USING INNOVATIVE WAYS OF end of its ASYE from 14 in 2015-16 to just one WORKING TO KEEP FAMILIES SPEAKERS: in 2017-18. TOGETHER AND PREVENT Debra Balfour, head of partnerships and Attend to find out: PLACEMENT BREAKDOWN communities, West Sussex County Council • How better ASYE programmes increase Room: Yellow Tracy Davis, principal social worker, West the recruitment and retention of children’s Oxfordshire County Council has long used Sussex County Council social workers. innovative ways of working in children’s • Why successful ASYE programmes depend social care to keep families together and on the whole service to work together. prevent placement breakdown. This session How Medway Council used the knowledge will feature learning from its residential • and skills Statement to improve the ASYE edge of care (REOC) service and explore 14.15 - 15.15 experience. the adoption of its new family safeguarding plus model, which will provide a strengths- SOCIAL WORK ENGLAND: MEET • Why consistent and stable ASYE based approach that addresses families’ THE NEW REGULATOR experiences create better child protection underpinning trauma in new and effective Room: Yellow social workers. ways. Topics to be covered include: This year there will be a change in the way SPEAKER: • What is the family safeguarding plus that the social work profession is regulated Nick James, advanced practitioner, Medway model?. when Social Work England takes over from Council the HCPC. • The value of shared case management over multi-professional teams Find out what the change means for you and the people you support, and learn about how How the model’s proven preventative • Social Work England is collaborating with approach prevents children entering care social workers to get things right from the and improves families’ lives. start. 15:30 – 16:30 Learning from the REOC service, through • Attend this workshop to: one family’s story. OPPORTUNITIES AND Hear how Social Work England will redefine SPEAKERS: • CHALLENGES WHEN DRIVING regulation and anchor its work in social Sandra Curley, REOC team manager, CULTURAL CHANGE work values. Oxfordshire County Council Room: Blue Learn about the new quick and responsive Hannah Farncombe, deputy director, • Jersey is a truly beautiful island and a very regulation system with open and children’s social care, Oxfordshire County different context for working with children transparent decision making. Council and families. Following the Care Inquiry Hear about Social Work England’s Delia Mann, head of service, family solutions • 2017, which made it clear that things needed registration and fitness to practise (central), Oxfordshire County Council to change, the “Jersey Way” brings both processes, professional standards and opportunities and challenges relating to the approach to CPD recording. need to deliver cultural change. Topics to be • Get answers to your questions during a covered include: Q&A with the Social Work England team. • The challenges regarding recruitment and the steps taken to resolve this. 14.15 - 15.15 SPEAKERS: Modelling behaviour and leadership BUILDING EFFECTIVE, Sarah Blackmore, executive director – • standards, Social Work England strategies in partnership with the Social SYSTEM-WIDE COMMUNITY Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE). PARTNERSHIPS THAT SUPPORT Colum Conway, chief executive, Social Work STRENGTHS-BASED ADULT SOCIAL England • Holding the performance “line” as part of an improvement journey. CARE Lord Patel of Bradford, chair, Social Work Room: Green England • Involving social workers in a co- development and design process. In this session, West Sussex County Council adult social care will explore how SPEAKER: it approached the challenge of delivering Gwynne Rayns, head of service – quality, strengths-based, community-led support Government of Jersey in a truly person-centred way by working across directorates and partnerships. 14:15 – 15:15 Attend to hear: HOW I LEARNT TO STOP • How West Sussex is changing its WORRYING AND LOVE THE ASYE relationship with service users and its practice approach through a ‘silent Room: Blue revolution’. For many newly qualified social workers, assessed and supported year in employment How the service is using strengths-based • (ASYE) programmes aren’t delivering and in conversations and connecting people some cases are causing them to abandon within their communities. the profession. In this session, Medway • From leaders, practitioners and Council will reveal how it transformed its ASYE
Please note, details of the interactive zone sessions are on pages 16-17 and those of the learning hub sessions on pages 26-27.
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Management: Case Study Day Two 16 October SPEAKERS: SPEAKERS: Lindsay Derby, team manager - adult social Steph How, head of strategy and operations care, Essex County Council (East) and strategic lead for Transforming 11:30 - 12:45 Jessica Stewart, head of commissioning, Social Care, Hampshire County Council MEANINGFUL LIVES MATTER: Essex County Council Lucy Marett, principal consultant, Hampshire STRENGTHS-BASED AND PERSON- Amber Stevens, team manager – adult social County Council CENTRED TRANSFORMATION care, Essex County Council FOR PEOPLE WITH A LEARNING DISABILITY AND/OR AUTISM
Room: Green 11:30 – 12:45 Learn how social workers in Essex are working with people with a learning disability 11:30 – 12:45 SUPPORTING SOCIAL WORKERS and/or autism to hack the adult social WITH SELF-CARE care system and rewrite the rules of co- TRANSFORMING SOCIAL WORK Room: Blue production. In this exciting and interactive PRACTICE TO IMPROVE OUTCOMES FOR CHILDREN Research by Community Care and Unison masterclass, Essex will share how its 100 found 80% of social workers suffered Days’ Challenge is giving birth to innovative Room: Yellow emotional distress on just one day in 2016. approaches that make life better for people In this session, Hampshire County Council’s Self-care and an awareness of professional with a learning disability and/or autism. outstanding-rated children’s service will share trauma and fatigue is essential as a response Attend to hear: how transforming social work practices can to distress, replenishing emotional resources • How the council’s Meaningful Lives Matter have a monumental and positive impact on and preventing exhaustion. children and families. programme is transforming frontline This session will cover: Through the story of Katie and her family, practice using a strengths-based and The evidence base for self-care: does it have the Hampshire team will demonstrate how • person-centred approach. an impact? • The innovative initiatives that emerged practitioners at all levels can transform lives and become truly outstanding by: • Ideas on how to create a culture of self- from the 100 Days’ Challenge including care, alongside peer support, as part of Taking a strengths-based approach to all Pazazz Pioneers, Smashing Barriers and • supervision and individually Island Community Challengers. areas of practice. • How these initiatives give residents • Transforming existing processes and SPEAKERS: with a learning disability and/or autism practices in line with changing demands. Sass Boucher, research director, SelfCare Psychology meaningful and sustainable control over • Working with multi-agency and multi- their lives. disciplinary partners in new ways. Kate Collier, practice and development director, SelfCare Psychology • How Meaningful Lives Matter works across • Considering how individual practice fits into the whole life pathway. the ever-shifting social work landscape.
Learning hub: C Children and families A Adult services M Management
• Designing and delivering the optimal to achieve better outcomes for their children Day One 15 October recruitment process. by strengthening their motivation for change. Come along to this session to: SPEAKER: 09:45 – 11:00 M Judy Cooper, associate, Community Care • Grasp the basic principles of motivational WHAT THE LATEST RESEARCH interviewing. TELLS US ABOUT SOCIAL WORK • Learn some motivational interviewing JOBSEEKING (INVITE ONLY) 11:30 – 12:45 M C techniques. Room: Learning hub MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING IN • Understand how motivational interviewing Community Care has just completed its FAMILY SAFEGUARDING is supporting the family safeguarding fourth round of research into social workers’ Room: Learning hub approach in Surrey. jobseeking approaches and preferences. Family safeguarding is an approach to social SPEAKER: This invite-only session will give senior work which ensures that all practitioners Alasdair Cant, director, Alasdair Cant and service and HR leaders exclusive access to involved with a family work in a team and Associates the results and insights, including: share the concerns and risks. It also involves Sharon Davidson, service manager, Surrey • The key drivers for social workers who more collaborative working with families and, Children’s Services Academy are looking for or considering moving where appropriate, seeks to keep children jobs. with their families. • How employers should position At the heart of this work is motivational themselves to be as attractive an interviewing, a technique which empowers employer as possible. parents to make the positive changes needed
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Learning hub: C Children and families A Adult services M Management Jan Williams, team manager - Essex Social Care 14:15 – 15:15 14:15 – 15:15 A C Academy, Essex County Council USING DIRECT WORK WITH ADULTS Jessica Chapman, senior content editor DELIVERING SAFE TRANSFERS OF TO EFFECT CHANGE (children), Community Care Inform (chair) CARE THAT SUPPORT RECOVERY Room: Learning hub Room: Learning hub In this workshop, Essex County Council will In this workshop, Essex County Council will explore how creative and unconventional ideas Day Two 16 October explore how health and social care work can complement direct work with adults in dynamically together to achieve person- child and families’ social work. Drawing on the 09:45 – 11:00 M centred and safe hospital discharges that council’s use of relationship-based and systemic deliver better and more sustainable outcomes approaches, the workshop will demonstrate CREATING A LEARNING CULTURE for residents. The conversation will explore: how children’s social workers can achieve and Room: Learning hub • What are the risks of not getting discharges support effective sustainable change for the Cultivating a ‘learning culture’ has been right and conducting assessments in crisis adults they work with. Attend to learn: mooted as one way to manage complexity in situations? • Creative ways to complete genograms, children’s and adults’ services. This practical, • Where and when is the right time for timelines and ecomaps. interactive session – based on exclusive assessments and decisions about • New ways to use the Child’s Needs Jigsaw. research for Community Care – will cover: long-term care? • How to explain childhood trauma to adults in • What a learning culture is, and why • How a systemic and joined-up approach ways that help them understand the impact developing one is important. that delivers safe and timely transfers from their past has on their parenting. • The barriers facing local authorities when care from a hospital setting can meet needs within a reablement-recovery ethos. • About working with adults one-to-one to developing a learning culture. bring about effective and sustainable change • The key elements that need to be in place SPEAKERS: and, where appropriate, for the purpose of to allow a learning culture to flourish. Annelise Barns, service manager - adult social completing court-directed assessments. • Practical ways of introducing these care, Essex County Council elements, with supporting case studies Brid Boraks, service manager - adult social SPEAKERS: from local authorities working in an care, Essex County Council Carley Goodman, family centre worker, Essex innovative way. County Council Alexandra Green, director for local delivery, Essex County Council Sharon Isted, team manager, Essex County SPEAKERS: Council Ruth Hardy, associate product manager, Michelle Reeve, team manager - adult social care, Essex County Council Melanie Noel, senior practitioner, Essex County Community Care Council Katie Sharman, client partner lead,
Community Care Inform
11:30 – 12:45 C 15:30 -16:30 C MEET OXFORDSHIRE CHILDREN’S 15:30 – 16:30 M C SERVICES’ TOP TEAM (INVITE ONLY) CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE – Room: Learning hub RETHINKING ‘DISCLOSURE’ TO MAKING A SUCCESS OF NAAS IN PROVIDE A MORE PROACTIVE AND Interested in learning more about Management THE WORKPLACE (INVITE ONLY) PROTECTIVE RESPONSE Room: Learning hub Oxfordshire’s new family safeguarding Room: Learning hub plus model and the opportunities it offers What should social workers do if they suspect a The national assessment and accreditation children’s social workers? Then head to child is being sexually abused but no disclosure system (NAAS) for social workers and Oxfordshire County Council’s stand [number has been made? How should they respond supervisors in children’s services is due to be 29] to pick up your invitation to: rolled out next spring, having been tested in 56 when children speak or behave in a way that local authorities. Among the stated benefits for • Have a one-to-one meeting with a senior is concerning? This session will help social employers is helping identify their practitioners’ manager from Oxfordshire. workers: development needs so they can target their • Learn more about the exciting • Clarify their understanding of disclosure, training offer. In this invite-only session, a panel developments in social work that are the different evidence requirements of the of leaders in NAAS authorities will: underway at Oxfordshire County Council. criminal justice and child protection systems • Share their and their workforce’s experience • Get your questions about the opportunities and what this means for how you should of going through NAAS. available for social workers answered. respond. Learn the barriers to disclosure and the • Identify factors that have helped and SPEAKERS: • different stages a child may go through hindered the implementation of NAAS. Laura Clements, head of service, family before they can make a disclosure and what Discuss the impact of NAAS on practice. solutions (N&S), Oxfordshire County Council • support they need from social workers at SPEAKERS: Annelies Henshall, principal social worker, each stage. Samantha Cameron, NAAS co-ordinator, children’s social care, Oxfordshire County Know how to safely handle disclosures Hampshire County Council Council • and respond so the child knows they are Sophie Gilbert, NAAS co-ordinator, Birmingham Delia Mann, head of service, family solutions supported and believed. Children’s Trust (central), Oxfordshire County Council SPEAKER: Pauline Morris, principal social worker, children Jane Wiffin, practice improvement advisor and adult services, London Borough for social work, Centre for expertise on child of Waltham Forest sexual abuse
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Somerset 39 51 50 49 County Council EXIT 46 45 44 43 42 41 EXIT UP TO GREEN, BLUE, YELLOW AND Essex County 27 25 RED ROOMS Council 38 ZONE
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35 34 32 29 11 Sussex West 1 SPEAKER 35a 33 31 30 DOWN TO & SPONSOR LEARNING HUB LOUNGE CATERING
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EXHIBITORS BY STAND For more information contact: 1 Government of Jersey 22 Hampshire County Council 29 Oxfordshire County Council Nicola Davies [email protected] 020 3915 9432 | 07787 151949 2 Sanctuary Social Care 23 London Borough of Croydon 30 West Midlands Children’s Services British Association of 4 West Sussex County Council 24 Community Care 32 Social Workers 5 London Borough of Merton 25 Cardiff Council 33 Opus People Solutions 12 Liquid Personnel 26 Medway Council 34 CSH Surrey 17 London Borough of Wandsworth 27 Torbay Children’s Services 35 States of Guernsey 19/20 Essex County Council 28 Brighter Futures for Children 35a Kentra Technologies
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Somerset 39 51 50 49 County Council EXIT 46 45 44 43 42 41 EXIT UP TO GREEN, BLUE, YELLOW AND Essex County 27 25 RED ROOMS Council 38 ZONE
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For more information contact: 36 Surrey County Council 45 Tavistock and Portman NHS 54 Macmillan Cancer Support Nicola Davies [email protected] 020 3915 9432 | 07787 151949 Foundation Trust 38 The Caldecott Foundation 55 What Works for Children’s 46 Unison Social Care 39 Imosphere 47/48 Somerset County Council 56 Social Work England 41 Home from Home Care 49 Independent People Homecare 57 findafamilyexpert.com 42 Swindon Borough Council 50 NICE 59 Excel Escort Solutions 43 Defence Medical Services 51 Hertfordshire County Council B1 Sage Publishing 44 Middlesex University 53 The Richmond Partnership for Care B2 Jessica Kingsley Publishers
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What’s it all about? Our bookshop provides an opportunity to purchase the most up-to-date literature from across the sector and hear directly from authors.
Jessica Kingsley SAGE Publishing Publishers Sara Miller McCune founded SAGE Publishing in 1965 to support the We publish books for professionals and general readers in a range of subjects dissemination of usable knowledge and educate a global and are well known for our long-established lists on social community. SAGE publishes journals, books and library work, adoption, dementia and the autism spectrum. We products spanning a range of subject areas. SAGE remains have also published extensively in the fields of mental majority-owned by our founder, who has ensured that the health, counselling, education and gender diversity. company will remain permanently independent.
“The benefi ts are real, they are not just nice to have. They make a di erence to delivery…It’s helped us in terms of our performance; it’s helped us in terms of our budget, How do you solve a because our agency spend is the lowest it’s ever been, and problem like retention? it’s helped in the delivery of quality” Assistant director for children’s services at the London Borough of Merton We understand that social worker turnover is a damaging and complex issue for any social work employer to face. Our retention risk tool o ers “…the results are a good the best support to senior leaders like you to visual image that allow you to see help you understand the size and scale of the the full range of issues and it helps risk within your organisation us plan for the future.” Principal social worker at Lincolnshire Based on the latest UK and international County Council’s children’s services research on the retention of social workers, our tool allows organisations to measure themselves against key risk indicators in one easy to use, single-view dashboard.
If you would like to speak to one of the Community Care team about how the Retention Risk Tool can help your organisation, get in touch today.
020 3915 9474 [email protected]
30 www.communitycarelive.co.uk Children’s Social Care – Putting children and young people at the heart of all we do Our last Ofsetd Inspection judged all our services to be “good and outstanding” noting “Children in Merton bene t from services that are dynamic, ambitious and successful” in an organisation that “comprises a blend of compassion and concern for the most vulnerable children and families, and conspicuous care and support for frontline workers.” (Ofsted, July 2017) We are rightly proud of our highly visible and committed senior team, strong frontline managers and creative social workers, utilising a range of tools to undertake impactful work with children and families.
Adult’s Social Care – Supporting Adults to live full and independent lives We put the individual at the heart of everything we do by focussing on their strengths and goals. We have a focus on early intervention, prevention and also have a long term support team for those who will need support on an ongoing basis. Across out workforce we share a set of values: • We keep our children, young people and vulnerable adults at the heart of all our work • We challenge inequality, promote inclusion and value diversity, making the most difference for the most vulnerable • We promote a learning culture which values staff and volunteers • We work in partnership • We are committed to quality assurance and continuous improvement • We listen to, respond and value our service users, their families and communities
Social Workers If you share our values and want to help us realise our ambitions for our children, young people and families and vulnerable adults we can offer you: • A visible and committed management team Manageable caseloads • An extensive professional development programme • A wider programme to support your wellbeing • Highly competitive pay rates and generous annual leave entitlement
To view our current vacancies visit www.merton.gov.uk/jobs
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BRIGHTER FUTURES FOR CHILDREN CSH SURREY EXCEL ESCORT SOLUTIONS STAND 28 STAND 34 STAND 59 Brighter Futures for Children (BFfC) has been CSH is a not-for-profit NHS community Excel Escort Solutions is a safe, secure and delivering children’s social care, early help & healthcare provider with a passion for helping highly professional escort and supervision prevention, education and special educational people live the healthiest lives they can in service operating throughout the UK. needs & disabilities (SEND) services in Reading their communities. Our teams work with Working in partnership, we provide mental since December 2018. BFfC is not-for-profit adults, children and families across Surrey health care, youth justice and vulnerable and wholly-owned by, but independent of, and are proud to make a positive difference children and adults with the safest, Reading Borough Council. It is already making to those they care for, every day. They tell affordable and timely solutions for all our great strides in service improvement. us that team work and support at CSH are clients. excellent, with lots of opportunities to develop www.brighterfuturesforchildren.org skills, roles and careers through our training excelescortsolutions.co.uk programmes. If you want to work in an organisation that puts people – employees and those we care for – first, come and join BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL CSH! FINDAFAMILYEXPERT.COM WORKERS (BASW) www.cshsurrey.co.uk STAND 57 STAND 32 FINDAFAMILYEXPERT.COM is a community BASW is the UK’s professional membership of independent social work experts, profiled organisation for social work. We are the and supported by our unique online DEFENCE MEDICAL SERVICES independent voice of social work. We platform. champion social work and help members STAND 43 Commissioners can search for social achieve the highest professional standards. The Ministry of Defence has a number of workers, download CVs, costs and Visit BASW at stand 32 for information on exciting, specialist and unique opportunities timescales and share instantly. membership benefits, and to find out more for experienced senior mental health social about what we do. workers and managers. You will play a key We also have a directory of service providers, from therapists to drug testing www.basw.co.uk role in the recovery of military personnel so they can return to full operational fitness or agencies. Whatever expertise is required, transition to civilian life. it’s at findafamilyexpert.com www.gov.uk/government/groups www.findafamilyexpert.com
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CARDIFF COUNCIL In social work, career-defining moments don’t come around very often. This is a STAND 25 challenge you’re unlikely to face anywhere in the UK. Joining the outstanding, Cardiff is Wales’ thriving capital city with passionate and expert social workers at the fantastic career prospects for social ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL Government of Jersey, you’ll become part of workers. We were just voted Europe’s ‘third a determined team that is making headway best’ capital city to live in by the European STAND 19/20 and be part of the change. Commission’s Quality of Life in European With communities as wide and diverse as Cities survey, due to our excellent quality of our geography, Essex could become the www.letsbehonest.gov.je/ life. Choosing Cardiff council allows you to career step for you in social care. join an experienced team of professionals who are committed to offering bespoke Essex understands the importance of social work opportunities tailored to your workers accessing cutting-edge resources interests, as well as an array of development and having time to undertake relationship- opportunities. If you’re looking for a flexible based social work. Do you want to make and supportive working environment with a real positive difference to our residents’ exciting cases where you can really make a lives? We offer breathtaking and award- difference, look no further. winning CPD overseen by our BASW- accredited Essex Social Care Academy. www.cardiff.gov.uk/cardiffcares We recognise and celebrate inspiring and exceptional social work and can offer a dynamic environment where you can be challenged, develop and thrive. www.workingforessex.com
32 www.communitycarelive.co.uk Are you passionate about social work? We offer postgraduate courses within an NHS mental health clinical setting.
“What I’ve learned from studying at the Tavistock and Portman is to adopt a much wider way of looking at problems.”
Judith Bennett, safeguarding team manager
Find out more about the courses we offer: taviport.co/socialworksocialcare email: [email protected] phone: 020 8938 2213/2214
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HOME FROM HOME CARE KENTRA TECHNOLOGIES STAND 41 STAND 35a We provide specialist residential care SOCIAL (Social Cooperation for Integrated services for adults (18+) with complex/ Assisted Living) is a research project for the high-acuity needs. Our bespoke support development of innovative digital services HAMPSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL packages and environments are tailored supporting proximity care networks, to each individual. Technology and data focused on elderly citizens, and improving STAND 22 help to inform creative solutions and communication and co-operation between We’re pioneering some changes to promote independence. Our single- formal and informal caregivers. It is led by social care practice in Hampshire and occupancy services are a proven alternative Kentra Technologies, in consortium with radically changing the way we work. The to restrictive and high-cost institutional Digitalwind, Micro-IO, Pedro Nunes Institute transformation of our service has led to us settings, including ATUs. and University of Aveiro. being one of just a few children’s services www.homefromhomecare.com authorities in the country to be rated www.kentratech.eu outstanding across all areas by Ofsted – which means children in Hampshire’s care are safe and well looked after. IMOSPHERE Inspectors reported how our social LIQUID PERSONNEL STAND 39 workers are highly skilled at building STAND 12 meaningful relationships with children and Imosphere is dedicated to improving Liquid Personnel is a specialist social that children in care benefit from high- lives by transforming the way health and work recruitment agency. Founded in quality support, which is making a real social care professionals use information. 2006, we are now the leading provider of difference to their lives. Ofsted praised Its pioneering products include a self- agency social workers in the UK, supplying our strong political and corporate support service analytics platform, the UK’s most exceptional social work staff to over – and how the well-targeted financial trusted resource allocation system for 150 organisations nationwide, including investment has enabled our leadership personal budgets, a next-generation local authorities, NHS trusts, fostering team to implement an ambitious care management system and nationally agencies, charities and many other private programme of change. All of this has led recognised FACE assessment toolsets. to strengthened services, ensuring that organisations. www.imosphere.co.uk the right help is available at the right time www.liquidpersonnel.com from the right people. However, the hard work does not stop here. We’re investing in our practice INDEPENDENT PEOPLE HOMECARE to ensure our social workers are professionally fulfilled and able to enjoy a STAND 49 positive work-life balance – while working Independent People Homecare is a home and training alongside some of the very care agency providing round-the-clock care best in the profession. and support at home to those who wish to LONDON BOROUGH OF CROYDON Stand out. Be outstanding. remain independent. With a wide network of experienced home care assistants across STAND 23 www.hants.gov.uk/ England and Wales we lead the way in In early help and children’s social care, childrenssocialworkcareers providing comprehensive, competitively- Croydon is committed to improving priced care services services for children and families across www.ip-live-in-care.co.uk the borough. Building upon recent improvements and substantial additional HERTFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL investment we are aiming to establish a platform for outstanding practice. Come STAND 51 JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS and talk to us about our plans and how you can join us in our journey. At Hertfordshire County Council, we pride STAND B2 ourselves on our innovative approach to In adult health and social care, with the effective service delivery. Employing 8,500 We publish books for professionals and ambition to make a difference to the centrally and 23,500 in schools, we are an general readers in a range of subjects and lives of individuals, families and wider exciting place to work. If you are looking for are well known for our long-established lists communities, our ‘One Croydon’ approach a new career challenge, we have a variety on social work, adoption, dementia and the makes Croydon an attractive employer. of opportunities to inspire you. We nurture autism spectrum. We have also published Come and find out how you can make a talent, reward success and value individuals. extensively in the fields of mental health, difference in your social care career. counselling, education and gender diversity. jobs.hertfordshire.gov.uk www.croydon.gov.uk www.jkp.com
34 www.communitycarelive.co.uk Make Hertfordshire Your Place of Opportunity
Home to over a million people, Hertfordshire is full Working with Adults of opportunities. We want everyone in our county – whether they are young or old, living independently We care for elderly, disabled and vulnerable or supported – to have healthy, fulfilling lives in members of the community, enabling them to live thriving, prosperous communities. As a specialist independently in their own homes. We’re focused in social work or social care, you’ll help to make on improving the quality of life for everyone who that happen and you can benefit from it too. uses our services and keeping vulnerable people safe from harm or abuse. You could join us as At Hertfordshire County Council, we do everything a Qualified Social Worker, Occupational Therapist, we can to increase your professional value. We’ve Advanced Practitioner, Deputy Team Manager or built experienced and stable management teams to Team Manager in one of the following teams: ensure clear direction and high-quality supervision. Adult Disabilities Team, Older People Team, Furthermore, we offer a structured career Sensory Services and Hospital Teams. programme to help you develop right up to Working with Children and Families management and leadership level. In short, we provide the best environment for you to We’re proud of our innovative, multi-agency practice invest in your own skills and abilities. which has won us a number of prestigious awards and national recognition for good practice. You can Whether it’s through training and development, or join us in our Safeguarding & Specialist Services taking more time off to relax and escape from it all – (Assessment, Family Safeguarding, Children Looked everything you do adds to your value as a professional. After, Adoption & Fostering, Disabled Children, Hertfordshire isn’t just a great place to work, it’s a Residential) or Education & Services for Young great place to live. People Teams. Although you’re less than hour from London, We have opportunities at all levels including Child you’d never know it. While we have plenty of busy Care Workers, Qualified Social Workers, Senior town centres, with great shopping, leisure and Practitioners, Consultant Social Workers, Team entertainment facilities, Hertfordshire’s beautiful Managers, Service Managers, Educational countryside and peaceful rural villages are never Psychologists, Youth Workers & Social Workers – far away. Targeted Youth Support. We also offer comprehensive training to newly Qualified Social Our teams are constantly expanding and we have Workers through a structured programme of a variety of challenging and exciting opportunities. induction and supported practice skills. Find out more about the opportunities we have in store for you. Visit: www.hertfordshire.gov.uk Exhibitors 19 BDC London 15-16 October
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LONDON BOROUGH OF MERTON OPUS PEOPLE SOLUTIONS STAND 5 STAND 33 We put children, families and vulnerable Opus is a local authority-owned recruitment adults at the heart of all we do. agency, which focuses on keeping money within the public sector. We work directly Join us to deliver the improved life choices with councils to understand their social for our most vulnerable children and work recruitment needs and fill locum families, and supporting adults to live MEDWAY COUNCIL vacancies. Candidates registered with us full and independent lives. Working to receive priority and are first to hear about STAND 26 be London’s best council, our employees any available jobs. are committed professionals and we are Medway is a truly great place to live, work, strengthening our partnerships with health learn and visit. Medway is one of the www.opuspeoplesolutions.co.uk and the voluntary sector. South East’s most aspiring and developing destinations. www.merton.gov.uk/jobs-and-careers.html In children’s services and across all our OXFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL social work practice, we are committed to social work values and promoting the STAND 29 Join our supportive team, which has been LONDON BOROUGH OF professionalism of social work. Our delivery of children’s services is informed by our rated good by Ofsted for the third time. We WANDSWORTH vision of achieving positive change for have a number of social care roles available STAND 17 families we work with so that children are at Oxfordshire County Council. If you’re safe, services are effective and families feel looking to excel and grow your career within In Wandsworth, we give you what they supported and enabled to care for their a caring organisation, with a professional need. We are proud of our ambition for children. development programme, come and talk to children and young people. We want our us at stand 29. children and young people to reach their We offer a wealth of opportunities to help full potential, develop skills for life, enjoy you with your continuous professional www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/workforus healthy lifestyles and be happy and active development. members of their community. We want them to be safe from harm and abuse. www.medway.gov.uk/childrenservicesjobs Please see us on our stand for available SAGE PUBLISHING positions. STAND B1 www.wandsworth.gov.uk/jobs-and- MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY Sara Miller McCune founded SAGE careers/social-work-jobs Publishing in 1965 to support the STAND 44 dissemination of usable knowledge Social work placements and CPD help the and educate a global community. SAGE publishes journals, books, and library MACMILLAN CANCER SUPPORT future workforce of social workers develop the knowledge and skills required to be products spanning a range of subject areas. STAND 54 successful in their future careers. Where SAGE remains majority-owned by our founder, who has ensured that the company At Macmillan, we understand the many a student undertakes their ‘placement’ will remain permanently independent. ways in which a cancer diagnosis can affect correlates with their interest in securing people’s lives. Whatever cancer throws longer-term employment within that www.sagepublishing.com people’s way, we’re right there with them. organisation. Discuss placement and CPD From the moment people are diagnosed, requirements with us. through treatment and beyond, we’re www.mdx.ac.uk/courses/short-courses- right there with them, offering emotional, SANCTUARY PERSONNEL and-cpd/courses-for-social-care-workers physical and financial support. STAND 2 www.macmillan.org.uk Sanctuary Personnel is the umbrella NICE company of leading recruitment specialists, including Sanctuary Social Care, Sanctuary STAND 50 Executive, Sanctuary Health and Sanctuary The National Institute for Health and Criminal Justice. This makes it home to one Care Excellence (NICE) is responsible for of the largest selections of health, social developing national guidance, standards care and criminal justice jobs in the UK. and information on improving health and www.sanctuarysocialcare.com/ social care. NICE guidance helps social care professionals deliver the best possible care based on the best available evidence. Visit the NICE stand to learn more. www.nice.org.uk
36 www.communitycarelive.co.uk Join Swindon & make a difference for children & their families There’s never been a better time to join our Children’s Services teams as following a recent inspection, we’ve been rated ‘Good’ by Ofsted (July 2019)
We’re continuing to heavily invest in our Children’s Services teams & in you - through a reduction in caseloads and fostering a culture of learning and challenge, to include the launch of our Social Care & Leadership academy, giving you opportunities and support to develop your career.
Come and meet our team, visit us on stand 42 Recruiting now for experienced social workers: https://jobs.swindon.gov.uk
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SOCIAL WORK ENGLAND STATES OF GUERNSEY TAVISTOCK AND PORTMAN NHS FOUNDATION TRUST STAND 5 STAND 35 Every day, social workers support millions Do you want to combine a rewarding STAND 45 of people to improve their chances in life. career in health and social care with a The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Social Work England is a specialist body healthy work-life balance? We offer a Trust is a specialist mental health trust with taking a new approach to regulating social relocation allowance, competitive salaries, a focus on training and education alongside workers in their vital roles. We believe in great career opportunities, modern a full range of mental health services and the power of collaboration and share a facilities, excellent training and revalidation psychological therapies for children and common goal with those we regulate — to support. their families, young people and adults. protect the public, enable positive change Whether you are newly-qualified or and, ultimately, improve people’s lives. tavistockandportman.nhs.uk experienced in a role, Guernsey could work www.socialworkengland.org.uk for you. www.gov.gg/healthandsocialcare
TORBAY CHILDREN’S SERVICES STAND 27 Torbay Children’s Services is located in South Devon, with access to beaches, SURREY COUNTY COUNCIL stunning West Country views and with SOMERSET COUNTY COUNCIL easy access to vibrant city-life. Children’s STAND 36 social work practice in Torbay offers unique STAND 47 & 48 Surrey Children’s Services Academy has opportunities. What makes a good social worker? been set up to work with partners across Listening. Surrey in the police, health, education and As a key aspect of our improvement journey, relationships are our highest In Somerset we believe that listening is others to recruit, develop and retain a workforce to give the best care and support priority, and children, families, colleagues vital to improving lives. Listening to our and professionals are treated with respect most vulnerable residents, children and to children, young people and families in Surrey. and dignity. We focus on solutions and families to improve our services for them. work together to achieve good outcomes Listening to our social workers to ensure The academy will: support staff to develop for children. that they are growing, progressing and themselves; introduce and embed new being fully supported to be the best they skills, values and ways of working; develop We offer support and challenge, within a can be. a shared language and values; build culture where everyone is accountable for capacity to strengthen partnership working; their practice, learning and development. We are a progressive, inclusive, welcoming We prioritise social work development, community – but let’s keep it real, develop a better understanding between agencies; keep abreast of new practice, whether experienced social workers, ASYEs practice is still challenging. We aim to or those returning to practice. make our social workers feel valued and and forge and maintain relationships with supported and we make sure they have experts in the social care field. www.torbay.gov.uk/socialwork the opportunities they need to develop the www.surreycc.gov.uk/jobs/job-sectors/ sort of skills and experience that improves childrens-social-work lives. We want to meet passionate social THE CALDECOTT FOUNDATION workers so come to stand 47 & 48 to find STAND 38 out more about Somerset. SWINDON BOROUGH COUNCIL The Caldecott Foundation is a not-for- www.socialcareandmore.co.uk/ STAND 42 profit organisation delivering specialist therapeutic residential, education and Join Swindon and make a difference for foster care to the UK’s most vulnerable children and their families after we were and disadvantaged young people. We care rated good by Ofsted in July 2019. for children who have suffered extremes We’re investing heavily in children’s services of abuse and neglect and have often and in you, through reducing caseloads and experienced multi-placement breakdowns. fostering a culture of learning, including Our vision is “Helping Children Build a through our social care and leadership Future”. academy, giving you opportunities and www.thecaldecottfoundation.co.uk support to develop your career. www.jobs.swindon.gov.uk/
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THE RICHARDSON PARTNERSHIP WEST MIDLANDS CHILDREN’S FOR CARE SERVICES STAND 53 STAND 30 The Richardson Partnership for Care West Midlands Children’s Services is a provides residential and respite care for regional improvement and innovation adults with severe learning disabilities and alliance. We are focused on making the West a person-centred approach to rehabilitation Midlands the place of choice for professionals for those with an acquired brain injury, with WEST SUSSEX COUNTY COUNCIL to practice outcome-focused social work. The the help of our specialist MDT. Our unique, STAND 4 West Midlands has something for everyone; homely environment encourages social find out what you are looking for on stand 30. We see the workplace as an environment integration, individual choice and respect for where people can be themselves, perform www.wmchildrensservices.org.uk service users. to the best of their ability and achieve their www.careresidential.co.uk potential to deliver services to our residents.
Social work is challenging, and we recognise WHAT WORKS FOR CHILDREN’S that to achieve excellent outcomes, SOCIAL CARE UNISON our people need to feel supported and recognised. Our social workers change STAND 55 STAND 46 lives. From supporting children and families We seek better outcomes for children, UNISON is the UK’s leading social care from the very start through to enabling our young people and families by bringing the union with more than 350,000 members residents to live independently in later life, best available evidence to practitioners and across the sector. We provide workplace we support them in every step. other decision makers across the children’s representation, a helpline open till midnight, If you are passionate about making a social care sector. We generate, collate legal help for work problems and accidents, difference, look at the exciting opportunities and make accessible the best evidence for and exclusive member discounts. With cuts, we have in adults’ and children’s services. practitioners, policy makers and practice redundancies and outsourcing, now is the leaders to improve children’s social care and time to join UNISON. www.westsussex.gov.uk/jobs/featured- the outcomes it generates for children and jobs/ families. www.unison.org.uk whatworks-csc.org.uk
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5 days Retention protected career Great staff network payment of up Flexible and & personal groups & staff to £3,000 paid agile working development reference group – after 12 months your voice counts 5 days protected service* induction
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Croydon is a place where you can make a real Watford Junction Luton Airport Highbury & Islington difference to the lives of children and their Direct rail King’slinks Cross to Croydon Willesden Junction St.Pancras families. You can work with a wide range of International needs, sometimes complex, and you can really Shepherd’s Bush Farringdon Whitechapel Victoria grow your skills and practice. It is a place where Kensington London Bridge Canada Water you can influence what happens, and our social (Olympia) workers have been instrumental in helping us to Clapham develop our improvement plan. Their input, energy Junction and determination has been invaluable, and will continue to be so. WEST EAST CROYDON CROYDON To Beckenham Junction, Elmers End and Children’s social care is a top priority for the Wimbledon New Addington whole council and we are now on a clear path to delivering outstanding outcomes for children and Sutton Epsom Gatwick young people, with pace. Airport To Tonbridge, Uckfield and If you have a passion for social work, for making To Guildford East Grinstead a difference and for improving lives, then come Horsham
and be part of our improvement journey. We look To Portsmouth To Eastbourne, Hastings forward to having a conversation with you! and Southampton and Ashford International Brighton Robert Henderson Only 15mins from London Victoria & Gatwick Executive Director Children, Families and Education
Come and see us on stand 23 to talk about what we can offer you in your social work career. To view our vacancies visit www.croydon.gov.uk
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