SSRG Previous Events - 2006

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Improving Practice through Practitioner Research

WEDNESDAY 6th DECEMBER 2006
Quaker Meeting House, 7 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh EH1 2JL

This event - FREE to SSRG members - will be of interest to practitioners, managers and planners across social and heath care services for children AND for adults.

Delegates will hear of a practitioner research programme run by Children 1 st working with Glasgow University . Research topics so far have included:

• what factors motivate drug using parents to change lifestyle,
• key impacts of abuse recovery work with children and their families,
• impact of child protection training on sports' coaches

Delegates will also hear of work that is being carried out in Barnsley to promote excellence and quality in research through a simple but effective 'Guide to Research Governance' for practitioners. Relevant documentation that is being used for guiding and assessing research applications will be available on the day.

• Programme (MS Word 165kb)
• Booking form (MS Excel 23kb)

Venue
Quaker Meeting House, 7 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh EH1 2JL

Developments in Performance Assessment

FRIDAY 10th NOVEMBER   (From 10.00am until approx 4.00pm)
Banqueting Suite, The Council House, Victoria Square in Birmingham, (about 10 minutes walk from New Street Station). 

The aim of the day is to explore developments in the performance assessment process and related issues for services to adults/older people - we should know more about the contents of the DCLG White Paper (or what it 'might' say) by then and its implications for performance assessment There will be a range of plenary sessions where each agency  - DCLG; LGA and DH/CSCI - will be invited to share current thinking and to respond to questions from participants. CSCI will also elaborate upon ideas for descriptors and PIs to populate the assessment framework

Speakers confirmed are:
Hilary Morse - Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG)
Tim Hind - Local Government Association (LGA)
Lynda Fean - Department of Health (DH)
Alan Rosenabach - Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI)
David Burnham - Lancashire County Council/Association of Directors of Social Services (ADSS)

We are currently negotiating with the Audit Commission and hope that they will identify a speaker.

Fees: £75 for SSRG members;  and £135 for others, and include lunch, refreshments and documerntation.

• Programme (MS Word 128kb)
• Booking form (MS Excel 23kb)

The programme and other information will emailed to you. It will also be posted to this website

Venue
Venue is the Banqueting Suite, the Council House, Victoria Square, Birmingham B1 1BB

Directions
Please click here for the pdf map (497kb PDF) which among other things gives directions from Birmingham New Street Station (about 10 minutes walk) and shows local car parks etc. Colleagues are advised to travel by public transport.

For train times, please visit: www.chester-le-track.co.uk/

From the platform at Birmingham New Street Station, follow the exit signs to 'Victoria Square'  When you pass through the barriers at the top of the stairs, cross the road and head up the hill. The Coucil House is straight in front of you.beyond the fountain 

If you find yourself in the main concourse of the station (by WH Smith etc), you can exit via the escalator and turn left. Continue past Woolworths and down then ramp past McDonalds toward HSBC. Bear left at HSBC and continue along the pedestrianised area (past Waterstones on your left). After a couple of minutes you will see a fountain and steps. The Council House is the imposng building beyond the fountain. 

For further information please contact David Henderson dhender421@aol.com

A Sure Start to Later Life

THURSDAY 27TH JULY 2006
The Brighton Centre
Enhancing Social inclusion for older People -  A part of the Celebrating Age Festival

Click here to download programme/booking form (240kb pdf).
Website: www.celebratingage.com

Outcomes in Social Care for Adults - 10 years on

THURSDAY 6TH JULY 2006
Gilbert Murray Conference Centre, University of Leicester from 9 a.m. to 4.15 p.m

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Supporting research on racism and ethnicity: Follow up meeting to the 'Inclusion and Exclusion' Conferences 2004 and 2005'

FRIDAY 16TH JUNE 2006
SCIE offices from 11.30 a.m to 3.30 p.m

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Researching Children - Joint LARIA/LGA/LEARG/SSRG Seminars

Wednesday 17 May 2006:Local Government Association Offices, London.
Tuesday 13 June 2006: Crewe Alexandra Football Club, Crewe.

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SSRG Scotland: Improving Services for Children: Developments in Inspection and Performance Indicators

Old Viewforth, Stirling
Monday 13 June 2005

The aim of this event was to address a range of contemporary policy and practice issues that have emerged from recent legislation and initiatives such as 'Changing Lives' and how agencies are tackling these.

For more information see Stirling 2006 page.

2006 Workshop: New directions in social care: Meeting the challenge of change

St Catherine's College, Oxford University
27-29th March 2006

The Annual Workshop is the main event on the SSRG calendar. The 2006 event will provide examples of how agencies are working together with users of services in order to 'meet the challenge of change'.

For more information see Workshop 2006 page.