Social Services Research Group
St Catherine's College,
Oxford University
27-29 March 2006
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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'.
It will address issues emerging from recent government legislation and initiatives, and how policy is being translated into practice. Key themes include:
We are pleased to announce that the SCIE incoming Chair, Alan Bowman, will be presenting on the morning of Tuesday 28th March.
We also understand that the SSRG Annual Workshop will be the first engagement for Naomi Eisenstadt in her new role of Secretary of State's Chief Adviser on Children's Services.
Other plenary speakers include: Dame Denise Platt, Chair CSCI Richard Humphries, Chief Executive, Care Services Improvement Partnership Andrew Cozens, Improvement and Development Agency Celia Atherton, Director, Research in Practice, Martyn Hammersley, Open University John Bolton, Director of Community Services, Coventry.
This event is intended for a wide audience, including managers, researchers, planning and evaluation staff and practitioners in:
As usual with SSRG events, sessions are intended to stimulate discussion and encourage networking.
The Annual Workshop once again represents outstanding value. SSRG members can attend for the 3 days - inclusive of ensuite B&B accommodation & meals - for around £350*.
* daily attendance rates are also available from around £110 rates for nonmembers to be advised in early December.
St Catherine's College comes highly recommended - colleagues from the Local Authority Research and Intelligence Association (Laria) staged their three day event at St Catherine's two years ago. They were greatly impressed with the quality of the meeting rooms and the spacious accommodation. All meals are waiter-served. So, in selecting St Catherine's, SSRG is responding to comments that were made by some delegates who attended the 2005 Annual Workshop for improvements in these areas
St. Catherine's was founded in 1962, and while taking much from the best traditions of Oxford it succeeds in having a much less formal and more relaxed and friendly atmosphere than many other colleges. Designed by the Danish architect Arne Jacobsen, it is one of the few postwar buildings in the country to be given grade 1 listed status.
For further information, see: www.stcatz.ox.ac.uk/
Oxford is well known throughout the world for its 800 year old university. More than five million tourists flock to the city every year to visit the colleges and to gaze at the beautiful honey gold buildings and the famous domes and spires that tower above them.
Visitors to the city can enjoy an enormous selection of bars and restaurants, a traditional covered market, gift and antique shops as well as some of the finest bookshops in the world. Many of the pubs are centuries old and were once frequented by famous writers, such as Thomas Hardy, C S Lewis and J R R Tolkien. You may even bump into some famous contemporary writers like Colin Dexter, the creator of Inspector Morse, both of whom are fond of Oxford 's traditional ale houses.
Music lovers and theatre goers are particularly well catered for in Oxford . There are five theatres and several classical music venues, not to mention the many college chapels and cloister gardens which host frequent performances.
For further information, see: www.oxfordinfo.com/
The 2006 SSRG Annual Workshop is supported by: