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Webinars and speakers

Webinar sessions include:

• Developing cultural competence with those who are criminally exploited
• The Care Act: wellbeing and human rights
• Bringing gender and sexuality awareness and understanding into social work
• The Mental Capacity Act: key principles and the ‘big issue’ – accommodation moves
• Secondary trauma and social work
• Courageous conversations
• Living a careless life: the power of relationships for children in care
• ‘Adultification’ bias: why racial and other stereotypes mean children are not all treated as equally vulnerable or innocent, and what this means for safeguarding practice
• What is good supervision (and how do we know)?
• From DoLS to the Liberty Protection Safeguards
• Safeguarding children with disabilities: practice tips and direct work ideas
• Meeting the cultural and religious needs of Black and minoritised children and communities
• Improving the social work response to domestic abuse
• What adult social care reform means for social work
• Attachment-based trauma and parenting
• Safeguarding people who self-neglect: what works?
• Problem gambling and social work
• Developments in NHS continuing healthcare
• Dealing with loss and grief

Our confirmed speakers are:

• Lyn Romeo chief social worker for adults, Department of Health and Social Care
• Tim Spencer-Lane, lawyer specialising in mental capacity, mental health and social care law
• Millie Kerr, anti-racist lead practitioner, Brighton and Hove City Council
• Catherine Bennett, county lines pathfinder lead, Suffolk Youth Justice Service
• Andy Butler, principal social worker (adults), Surrey County Council
• Luke Rodgers, director of strategy, The Care Leaders
• Jenefer Rees, principal social worker for adults, London Borough of Islington, and chair, Adult Principal Social Worker Network
• Tricia Pereira, director of operations, Skills for Care
• David Wilkins, senior lecturer in social work, Cardiff University and assistant director, Children’s Social Care Research and Development Centre
• Michael Preston-Shoot, professor emeritus (social work), University of Bedfordshire
• Dr Alice Loving, independent parenting assessment and intervention practitioner and lecturer, Centre for Child Protection, University of Kent
• Rachel Lovelady, service manager, local authority
• Nicole Jacobs, domestic abuse commissioner for England and Wales
• Morag Duff, independent specialist continuing healthcare consultant
• Jim Rogers, senior lecturer, School of Health and Social Care, University of Lincoln
• Laura Hanbury, clinician and PhD research student, Royal Holloway University
• Jahnine Davis, co-director, Listen Up and panel member, Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel
• Dr Jason Schaub, lecturer in social work, University of Birmingham
• Nicholas Marsh co-director, Listen Up
• Heidi Dix , senior social work lecturer, University of Suffolk
• Arianna Kelly, barrister, 39 Essex Chambers
• Marie Price, senior lecturer in social work, University of Chichester
• Alex Greenchester, social worker, AMHP (approved mental health professional) and BIA (best interest assessor)
• Lori Goossen, principal children and families social worker, Medway Council
• Russ Bellenie, principal social worker (children), London Borough of Barking and Dagenham