National Social Services Conference 2004 webcast

National Social Services conference
2004

‘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

https://www.communitycare.co.uk/articles/article.asp?liarticleid=46780&liSectionID=3&liParentID=2

President Tony Hunter

Clark announces childcare funding streams will merge

https://www.communitycare.co.uk/articles/article.asp?liarticleid=46711&liSectionID=3&liParentID=2

Authorities would commission health under Lib Dems

https://www.communitycare.co.uk/articles/article.asp?liarticleid=46779&liSectionID=3&liParentID=2

Professionals have to share client information, Philp
warns

https://www.communitycare.co.uk/articles/article.asp?liarticleid=46777&liSectionID=3&liParentID=2

Regulatory system will be ‘radically
modernised’

https://www.communitycare.co.uk/articles/article.asp?liarticleid=46775&liSectionID=3&liParentID=2

Gilroy sets out future vision for social care

https://www.communitycare.co.uk/articles/article.asp?liarticleid=46769&liSectionID=3&liParentID=2

New local teams to disseminate lessons learned from child
death

https://www.communitycare.co.uk/articles/article.asp?liarticleid=46768&liSectionID=3&liParentID=2

Estimated 20,000 social workers yet to register as deadline
looms

https://www.communitycare.co.uk/articles/article.asp?liarticleid=46767&liSectionID=3&liParentID=2

Campaigner wants to “dynamite” day centres

https://www.communitycare.co.uk/articles/article.asp?liarticleid=46710&liSectionID=3&liParentID=2

Delayed discharge fines ‘should not be
extended’

https://www.communitycare.co.uk/articles/article.asp?liarticleid=46709&liSectionID=3&liParentID=2

Bichard urges managers ‘not to defend the
indefensible’

https://www.communitycare.co.uk/articles/article.asp?liarticleid=46708&liSectionID=3&liParentID=2

Webcast:-Conference sessions
(Copy and paste the urls below into an internet
browser)

Plenary Session 1

Reid ‘fails to reassure directors’

Speaker:- Edgar Cahn
rtsp://real.newcastle.gov.uk/adss/plenary1.smil

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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