‘Communities that Care, Services that Deliver’
For anyone who was unable to make the National Social Services conference 2004, fear not as www.communitycare.co.uk brings you all the latest coverage from the conference and webcasts from the main plenary sessions.
Conference coverage
Hunter urges social workers to celebrate their successes
www.communitycare.co.uk/articles/article.asp?liarticleid=46781&liSectionID=3&liParentID=2
Reid fails to reassure directors about future of social
care
http://www.communitycare.co.uk/articles/article.asp?liarticleid=46780&liSectionID=3&liParentID=2
| President Tony Hunter |
Clark announces childcare funding streams will merge
http://www.communitycare.co.uk/articles/article.asp?liarticleid=46711&liSectionID=3&liParentID=2
Authorities would commission health under Lib Dems
http://www.communitycare.co.uk/articles/article.asp?liarticleid=46779&liSectionID=3&liParentID=2
Professionals have to share client information, Philp
warns
http://www.communitycare.co.uk/articles/article.asp?liarticleid=46777&liSectionID=3&liParentID=2
Regulatory system will be ‘radically
modernised’
http://www.communitycare.co.uk/articles/article.asp?liarticleid=46775&liSectionID=3&liParentID=2
Gilroy sets out future vision for social care
http://www.communitycare.co.uk/articles/article.asp?liarticleid=46769&liSectionID=3&liParentID=2
New local teams to disseminate lessons learned from child
death
http://www.communitycare.co.uk/articles/article.asp?liarticleid=46768&liSectionID=3&liParentID=2
Estimated 20,000 social workers yet to register as deadline
looms
http://www.communitycare.co.uk/articles/article.asp?liarticleid=46767&liSectionID=3&liParentID=2
Campaigner wants to “dynamite” day centres
http://www.communitycare.co.uk/articles/article.asp?liarticleid=46710&liSectionID=3&liParentID=2
Delayed discharge fines ‘should not be
extended’
http://www.communitycare.co.uk/articles/article.asp?liarticleid=46709&liSectionID=3&liParentID=2
Bichard urges managers ‘not to defend the indefensible’
Webcast:-Conference sessions
(Copy and paste the urls below into an internet
browser)
Plenary Session 1
| Reid 'fails to reassure directors' |
Plenary Session 2
Delegates discussed the image of social work
Speakers:- Polly Neate, editor or Community Care and filmmaker
Roger Graef
rtsp://real.newcastle.gov.uk/adss/plenary2.smil
Plenary Session 3
Speaker:- Sir Michael Bichard, chair of the Bichard
Inquiry
rtsp://real.newcastle.gov.uk/adss/plenary3.smil
Plenary Session 4
Speaker: Charles Clarke, Secretary of State for
Education
rtsp://real.newcastle.gov.uk/adss/plenary4.smil
Plenary Session 5
Inspection and Improvement: Can we do both?
Speakers:- David Bell from Ofsted, David Behan from CSCI and Steve
Bundred from the Audit Commission
rtsp://real.newcastle.gov.uk/adss/plenary5.smil
Plenary Session 6
Services that Deliver
Speakers:- Lin Homer, Christine Davies, Kathryn Hudson
rtsp://real.newcastle.gov.uk/adss/plenary6.smil
Plenary Session 7
Speaker:- Andrew Lansley Conservative health
spokesperson
rtsp://real.newcastle.gov.uk/adss/plenary7.smil
Plenary Session 8
Speaker:- Paul Burstow, Liberal Democrat health
spokesperson
rtsp://real.newcastle.gov.uk/adss/plenary8.smil
Plenary Session 9
Speaker:- Councillor Alison King, chair of the children
and young people board, Local Government Association
rtsp://real.newcastle.gov.uk/adss/plenary9.smil
Plenary Session 10
Presidential address
Speaker:- Tony Hunter, president of the Association of Directors of
Social Services
rtsp://real.newcastle.gov.uk/adss/plenary10.smil
Plenary Session 11
Speaker:- Dr John Reid, secretary of state for
health
rtsp://real.newcastle.gov.uk/adss/plenary11.smil
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