Joint AnnualConferences 2018
“Safeguarding – a “whole family” approach”
Wednesday 7th February, 9.00-4.30
Royal Bath Hotel, Bournemouth
Thursday 22nd February, 9.00-4.30
Kingston Maurward College, Dorchester
In 2018, the pan-Dorset Safeguarding Boards for Adults and Children are combining to provide joint conferences aimed at key practitioners, managers and commissioners from multi-agency services for children, young people, adults and families. The aim of the conferences isto promote a whole family approach to safeguarding through multi-agency collaboration, ensuring best practice.
“Families, in whatever form they take, are the bedrock of our society. Making sure that the support provided by children’s, adults’ and family services is co-ordinated and focused on problems affecting the whole family is important for everyone, and is the only effective way of working with families experiencing the most significant problems.”
(Department for Children, Schools and Families)
Key Note Speaker: Jan Pickles OBE
Jan Pickles is a qualified and registered social worker who has worked in Government, the voluntary sector, the Probation Service and the NSPCC. She was awarded the OBE for her work in developing national multi-agency responses to domestic abuse risk assessment and management across the UK.
Jan’s firm belief is that “Safeguarding is about people, not processes……. Unless we collectively strive to deliver valued outcomes for children, young people and adults no matter how challenging their circumstances, there is no point in processes. Safeguarding is about people having choices in their lives and particularly in their relationships, which must be free of inhumane coercion”.
Presenters:
David Mellor, Independent Author
Key thematic learning from localSerious Case Reviews, Safeguarding Adult Reviews and Domestic Homicide Reviews
Sue Rastall, Director of Train to Equip
Sue has been a leading contributor to the development of family intervention initiatives, nationally and across Dorset.
Workshop Themes:
A How attachment affects family functioning – facilitated by Jennifer Bigmore, Bournemouth
University
BThe impact of domestic abuse on families – facilitated by Tonia Redvers/ Katie Bielec, The You Trust
C The interface between adult self-neglect and child neglect -facilitated by Verena Cooper/ Wendy
Thorogood, Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group
DSafely supporting families where a parent has a learning disability -facilitated by Bev Taylor-Wade,
Specialist Clinical Occupational Therapist, Dorset Healthcare
EThe journey through mental health services, from child to adulthood - facilitator to be confirmed
Exhibition and Marketplace
A selection of relevant, invited agencies and services will be available for delegates to visit at the conferences.
Booking Arrangements
The conference fee is £50 per delegate and includes lunch and refreshments.
All conference bookings must be made on the relevant Delegate Nomination Form supplied to safeguarding partner organisational leads/board members.
To secure places Delegate Nomination Forms must be completed and returned to by Friday 15th December
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