Book your place for Community Care Live 2025

Registration has opened for Community Care Live 2025, which takes place on 7-8 October this year.

The event returns to London’s Business Design Centre, offering two days of free learning on social work, occupational therapy and leadership, expert guidance on social care law and court skills and the opportunity to network with recruiters, providers, training organisations and peers.

Entry is free for, among others, registered social workers, OTs, social work students and lecturers, social care staff and leaders working for council, NHS, governmental or charitable organisations.

Registering gives you access to over 20 sessions on topics such as improving responses to intra-familial child sexual abuse, supporting kinship families, learning from safeguarding adults reviews, working with adults with executive functioning challenges and coercive control.

Dedicated streams for OTs and leaders

Our free programme also includes a dedicated stream for OTs on day one (7 October 2025), including learning on promoting movement and physical activity, empowering people with dementia and working with people with learning difficulties and experience of the criminal justice system.

There are also seminars targeted at social work leaders, with a panel session on advancing anti-racism in practice with children and families and an interactive workshop on thinking under fire.

We will also be showcasing a special performance from Care to Dance, a group of care-experienced young people.

Legal learning launch offer

Alongside the free programme sits our legal learning stream, where you will find sessions on the reformed Mental Health Act, the deprivation of liberty of children and young people, hoarding and mental capacity and family court cases involving parents with learning disabilities.

If you book by 24 June 2025 and secure any of the first 250 tickets, for the legal sessions you can take advantage of our launch offer of £18 plus VAT, after which our early bird price of £25 plus VAT will apply until 22 July.

As usual, the seminar programme is delivered by leading experts on the issues that matter to social care practitioners, who this year include:

• Jahnine Davis, leading safeguarding researcher and national kinship care ambassador at the Department for Education.
• Tim Spencer-Lane, legal editor, Community Care Inform, and specialist adult social care, mental health and mental capacity lawyer.
• Alex Ruck Keene, barrister, 39 Essex Chambers, and leading educator on the Mental Capacity Act 2005.
• Anna Glinski, deputy director for knowledge and practice development, Centre of expertise on child sexual abuse (CSA).

As well two packed days of learning, you can explore new opportunities in your career, learn about providers and training organisations and catch up with colleagues past and present in our exhibition.

Event partner and exhibitors

We could not deliver Community Care Live without the support of our longstanding event partner, Essex County Council.

We are also thankful to our exhibitors for helping us deliver so much great learning, most of it free.

Register now and we will see you in October!