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Power to the people: Will the adult green paper deliver?

Date:- Monday 27 June 2005

Venue:- ORT House, London

A Community Care conference in partnership with the Association of Directors of Social Services and Pavilion

This conference will focus on service users and how the new adult green paper, 'Independence, Wellbeing and Choice', will impact on them. The green paper promises to revolutionise the relationships between service users, carers, professionals and the state. Service users will have an unprecedented say in their own care, while professionals will take on new roles such as 'brokers' and 'navigators' designed to assist them. Direct payments and individual budgets will give service users more choice and the ability to take more risks - but what will the impact be in professionals? The conference will help everyone from service users to senior managers crystallise their thinking on a central theme of the green paper as the consultation deadline approaches.

Bookings can be made through the customer services team at Pavilion on 0870 1613505

Programme

10am  Arrival and Registration

10.30  Chair's introduction 
             Polly Neate, editor of Community Care

10.45  Taking control: putting service users centre stage 
             Nick Danagher, executive director, National Centre for Independent Living

11.15   Money in hand: direct payments and individual budgets

11.45   Tea/coffee

12         Panel discussion: how the respective roles of state, carer and user are set to change
             With Dwayne Johnson, secretary ADSS disabilities committee and Stephen Burke, chief executive Counsel and Care

1           Lunch

            Afternoon chair: Jeff Jerome, co-chair ADSS disabilities committee

2          From gatekeepers to navigators: the impact on professionals
            Annie Stevenson, senior policy advisers Help the Aged

2.45    Will self-assessment meet needs more effectively?

3.15    Tea/coffee

3.45    Risks and rewards: balancing protection and choice
            Ruth Cartwright, professional officer BASW

4.30    Chair's summing up

4.45    Close