Again within the (large) room
The National Children and Adult Services Conference (NCASC) is again – and within the bodily realm this time after two years of pandemic-enforced digital shows.
As soon as once more, the Manchester Central Exhibition Centre is the venue for the yr’s greatest social care convention, happening this week, 2 – 4 November.
Attended by representatives from social care suppliers, native and central authorities, voluntary organisations, and the non-public sector, it is a possibility to debate and talk about the availability of efficient companies for youngsters, younger individuals, households and susceptible adults.
This yr, illustration from the Division of Well being and Social Care contains Lyn Romeo, Chief Social Employee for Adults, Jason Brandon, Psychological Well being Social Work Lead and Michelle Dyson, Director Common for Grownup Social Care.
They’re going to be collaborating in convention classes and ‘meet and greet occasions’ at our conventional DHSC stand within the exhibition corridor. Coverage leads concerned in charging reform, ASC recruitment and the Higher Care fund may also be there to reply your questions.
Lyn is wanting ahead to classes on “the problem of workforce recruitment and the retention of regulated professionals, together with the chance to share views and reflections from key sector leaders and what might be put in place to enhance each.”
There may also be a transitional safeguarding session led by Research in Practice‘s Dez Holmes, which builds on Lyn’s Chief Social Worker for Adults annual report revealed earlier this yr.
The native authorities main the best way as charging reform trailblazers may also be represented as they and others come collectively to debate alternatives, challenges and considerations because the social care reform agenda continues
Jason, in the meantime, will promote the varied points of the draft Mental Health Bill, which can impression native authorities together with strengthening alternatives for prevention, consolidating the Authorised Psychological Well being Skilled (AMHP) workforce and selling improved preparations for safeguarding sufferers detained beneath the Act.
Go to DHSC colleagues at stand D6 within the exhibition corridor
Here is a mini-timetable of all DHSC associated occasions, however for extra particulars, go to the NCASC web site and download the full conference programme.
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Wednesday 13:10 – 14:10 Q&A session on charging reform, together with demonstration of a portal
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Wednesday 15:15 – 15:45 Meet & greet with Michelle Dyson, Director Common for Grownup Social Care, and Lyn Romeo, Chief Social Employee
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Thursday 10:30 – 10:55 Q&A session on the Higher Care Fund, a authorities initiative creating a neighborhood single-pooled funds to incentivise joint working between the NHS, native authorities and care companies
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Thursday 13:00 – 14:00 Q&A session on worldwide recruitment, following the Authorities’s announcement of £15 million to help recruitment of care employees from overseas
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Thursday 14:00 – 16:30 Meet & greet with Jason Brandon, Psychological Well being Social Work Lead for DHSC
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Friday 10:15 – 10:45 Meet & greet with Lyn Romeo, Chief Social Employee for DHSC
Whether or not you are attending in individual or not, do not forget to comply with the convention twitter protection, utilizing #NCASC22.
