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LAC Practice Exchange Network - Birmingham

Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 9:30 AM (GMT)

Birmingham, United Kingdom

LAC Practice Exchange Network - Birmingham

Ticket Information

Ticket Type Sales End Price Fee Quantity
All Places Ended £46.00 £0.00

Event Details

The aim of the LAC Practice Exchange Network is provide practitioners with up to date knowledge and ideas to help improve practice and outcomes for children in care, which can be disseminated back to individual practitioners local authority.

The LAC Practice Exchange Network events will provide the opportunity for practitioners from across each region to come together to hear about what is happening at a regional level from the Government regional offices and to hear from speakers on topics relevant to direct practice.

The events also provides opportunities to network, share best practice, discuss burning issues and find solutions to improve practice with children in care. Participants will be provided with materials from the day to enable feedback to participant’s own local authority.

Each Participant and local authority will also be provided with a yearly briefing, which summarises all the key issues, topics covered and messages for practice from across all the regional events.

Programme

9:30 Registration and refreshments
10:00 Welcome and Introduction by Chair
10:20 Latest government policies/news and what’s happening region round-up, Q and A
Mandy Smith, Policy Officer - Vulnerable Children, Government office for the West Midlands
10:55 Attachment, trauma and resilience – What Works
Kate Cairns, Chief Executive, AKAMAS
11:25 Refreshment break
11:40 Roundtable discussion
12:30 Lunch
1:30 Chair: Welcome back
1:40 Improved outcomes for looked after children – Lessons from Oxfordshire
Fran Fonseca, Assistant Head of Service, Children & Families, Oxfordshire County Council
2:10 Roundtable discussion - improving outcomes
2:45 Action planning
3:00 Close of seminar