SSRG Annual Workshop: Fair welfare services or farewell to services? An assessment of the funding, fitness and future of social care and related services. 11 March 2013, Coventry TechnoCentre.
Programme
This conference aimed to bring together leading thinkers from academia and local authority settings to discuss both causes and remedies, including:
- the causes and consequences of the austerity programme and its impact on social care services
- what can be done to protect users of social care services, unpaid carers and services from the consequences of austerity,
- share areas of existing good practice
Speakers and PowerPoint presentations
- Jon_Glasby Professor of Health and Social Care and Director of Health: Services Management Centre (HSMC), University of Birmingham – ‘The end of local government as we know it? Where do we go from here
- Martin_Knapp Director of the School for Social Care Research and the PSSRU at LSE – Using economics evidence for policy and practice
- John_Dix, Consultant: ‘The graph of doom: the danger of long term predictions’:
- Jill Manthorpe, Director-Social Care Workforce Research Unit, Kings College London and Nicky Stanley, Professor of Social Work, University of Central Lancaster – The Turn Towards privatisation of Services for Looked After Children: Findings from the National Evaluation of Social Work PracticesrJohn_Dix_SSRG_AW_2013John_Dix_SSRG_AW_2013:
- Alan Rosenbach, Special Policy Lead to the Chief Executive at CQC – No PowerPoint
- Karen Marcroft (Improvement and Efficiency West Midlands and Adam King (Ofsted): The Three Blind Mice of Manchester: Aka: Self awareness, inspection and improvement in Children’s services
- Roger Bullen, Essex County Council: Doing Things Differently in Essex: The “Why’s and How’s” of Social Impact Bonds
- Parvaneh_Rabie, Social POlicy Research Unit. York University: LA‐managed Personal Budgets: Choice and Flexibility of Home Care for Older People?
- Nick_Axford, The Social Research Unit, Dartington Hall Trust: First Principles: we ahve the ability to do harm – Good intentions are not enough
- Simon Fanshawe (no PowerPoint) – gave a summary and overview
This event was supported by: NIHR School of Social Care Research (SCCR)
Updated 11/10/2013 – Martin Stevens
