Learn to Care
Annual Conference 2008
Leading together…Learning together
21-22 April 2008
Daresbury Park Hotel, Warrington
1. KEYNOTES:
Peter White
BBC Disability Correspondent
‘See it My Way’
Mark Baldwin
University of Bath
‘Organisations – Can’t Learn, Won’t Learn’
Presentation slides
Jennifer Bernard
Consulting Director for City & Guilds
‘Health and Well Being’
Presentation slides
The work is from Adrian White at the University of Leicester, and he used the responses of 80,000 people
worldwide to map out subjective wellbeing.
The first five in order are:
Denmark,
Switzerland,
Austria,
Iceland
Bahamas.
The USA is 23rd, the UK 41st. Japan is 90th and last of all at 178 is Burundi.
The map is still accessible from the BBC website if you Google 'World Map of Happiness'.
2. WORKSHOPS
If you require notes from any of the workshops listed below or slides from the presenters (where available), then please contact the Learn to Care office:
T: 0121 415 6805
F: 0121 415 6806
or by email
Managing Diversity
George Smalling
Commissioning and the workforce
Don Brand
Social Care Governance - a practice work book
Barbara Campbell and Lorraine Simmons
Implementing Individualised Budgets; the Oldham Experience
John Fraine and Bev Maybury
Team around the Child Approach, Liverpool
Anne Marie Carney
Why ‘Grow Your Own’ Social Workers?
Jess Harris
Local Area Agreements and Community Development
Gareth O'Rourke
Social Care Objectives for CWDC - Discussion forum on implications for the
Social Care Workforce.
Ann Harrison and Nicola Treanor
New to Learning and Development
John Wallace and Keith Brown
Achieving culture change through workforce development
Sara Lewis and Joanna Lenham
CAF and Integrated Working: How integrated working can support the Children’s Plan 2010 commitment on prevention and early intervention.
Hilary Ellam
Integrated Learning – a COMPACT approach (Health Trainer Award)
Kim Squires and Nicky Speakman
Induction and CPD needs of overseas recruited staff
Steve Keen, Natalie Bates and Douglas Machiridza
Our Health, Our Care, Our Say: the leadership agenda
Anna Gaughan
In Control
Roger Hutchins
Workforce and Training Implications of the Mental Health Act 2007
Malcolm King
New types of Worker – New Types of Working.
Developing the evidence based for the workforce of the future
Jim Thomas and Marie Lovell
Newly Qualified Social Workers Pilot Programme (Children’s Services)
Sue Brook
Remodelling Social Work Delivery Pilots and emerging learning from New Types
of Worker
Paul Harper, Vicki Betts and Matt Watt
Page last edited: 21 May 2008
