Research, Information, Systems and Knowledge
Chancellor’s Conference Centre, University of Manchester
Monday 7th April
Plenary: R.I.S.K and the Life of the DCS and DASS in 2008
- Maggie Atkinson, ADCS (Powerpoint file, 3.5MB)
- Anne Williams, ADASS (Powerpoint file, 1MB)
Joining the Dots: The Children’s Plan: National Objectives – Local Delivery
- Steve Walker, IDeA (Powerpoint file, 1.1MB)
Putting People First: Where to Next?
- Mona Sehgal, IDeA (Powerpoint file, 1.1MB)
The Challenges of Moving Toward an Integrated Workforce for Children Ian Johnston, BASW
Evaluating Service User’s Perspectives of Coventry City Council’s Individual Budgets Pilot Gary Daly, Coventry University and
Andrew Reece, Coventry City Council
- Guy Daly Part 1 (Powerpoint file, 640kb)
- Guy Daly Part 2 (Powerpoint file, 880kb)
- Guy Daly Part 3 (Powerpoint file, 70kb)
Evidence-based Commissioning for Vulnerable Groups: A User-friendly Tool?
- Allison Smith and Joanne Fearn, Cabinet Office (Powerpoint file, 1.2MB)
Promoting the Involvement of Older People and Carers in Service Commissioning and Development
- Jane Hughes and Judy Scott, PSSRU University of Manchester (Powerpoint file, 200kb)
Tuesday 8th April
The new landscape for health and wellbeing
- Liam Hughes IDeA (Powerpoint file, 337kb)
Comprehensive Area Assessment
- Charles Marshall, Audit Commission (Powerpoint file, 337kb)
How Healthy is Your Area?
- Shelley Bradley and Helen Shaw, SE Public Health Observatory (Powerpoint file, 1.8MB)
Strategic Needs Analysis in Children’s Services
- Rebecca Knight, Worcestershire County Council
Developing a Quality Assurance Framework for Adult Services
- Gay Leggett, Essex County Council (Powerpoint file, 84kb)
Costing Children’s Services: Availability of child level data for children in need
- Samantha Culley, Loughborough University (Powerpoint file, 3.2MB)
Measuring Quality and Value in the Public Services
- Julien Forder, PSSRU, Gail Rowles, ONS and
David Wilkinson, NIESR (Powerpoint file, 500kb)
Narrowing the Gap’ – What Really Makes the Difference?
- Jane Held, Narrowing the Gap Core Group (Powerpoint file, 1MB)
Improving Independence – can homecare re-ablement make a difference in the longer term?
- Liz Newbronner SPRU (Powerpoint file, 250kb)
Strategic Needs Analysis in Children’s Services
- David Onions and Andrew Rudd, Worcestershire County Council (Powerpoint file, 5MB)
Older Citizens’ use of Scrutiny
- Sharon Brearley, Age Concern, Natalie Davies, LinkAge Plus, Paulette Holness, Salford City Council, Mary Murphy, Age Concern (Powerpoint file, 38kb)
Debate: Performance Management has Done Little Good and a Lot of Harm
For the Motion:
David Burnham.
Against the Motion:
Nick Miller
- David Burnham (Powerpoint file, 250kb)
Wednesday 9th April
Adult Social Care Research – Developing Capacity
- Carol Lupton, Department of Health
Plenary: SCIE’s Role in Making a Difference
- Julie Jones, SCIE (Powerpoint file, 111kb)
Promoting Evidence Based Practice: Lessons from Stockport MBC and CareKnowledge
- Mark watson, OLM, Karen kiime, Stockport (Powerpoint file, 1.2MB)
Mapping Children’s Service
- Bob Foster, University of Durham (Powerpoint file, 1.5MB)
What Works in ‘Grow Your Own’ Initiatives for Social Work? Jess Harris, Kings College London
Improving Independence – Can Home Care Reablement Make a Difference in the Longer-Term? Caroline Glendinning, University of York
Plenary: Using Research to Inform Professional Decision Making in a Context of Risk
- Brian Taylor, University of Ulster (Powerpoint file, 111kb)
- Brian Taylor list of references (MSWord doc, 34kb)
Enabling and supporting practitioners to engage with research
- Angie Liversedge and Jess McEwen, Wakefield MBC (Powerpoint file, 350kb)
Change Projects: Shifting the Balance from Researcher to Practitioner. Susannah Bowyer and George Julian, Research in Practice for Adults
Knowledge Management in Practice: A Case Study from Adult Social Care
- Catherine Beverley, Cumbria County Council (Powerpoint file, 38kb)
Research Governance: Where to next?
- Paul Dolan, Birmingham City Council (Powerpoint file, 3.2MB)
The 2008 SSRG Annual Workshop is supported by
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