Conferences
Working with the Whole Family: Developing the vision for young carers and their families
Next Steps for Adult Services, Children’s Services and their Partners
Parental mental illness, parental substance misuse and dual diagnosis where children are in a caring role
The aim of these conferences is to ensure service managers, policy leads and senior practitioners involved in providing parental substance misuse and mental health services, are equipped with the latest guidance and are able to identify and respond to wider family issues where children and young people are in a caring role.
These free events will offer delegates the opportunity to hear about latest government policy from key senior officials and see a range of good practice. Workshops will showcase areas such as, developing joint working protocols, safeguarding, whole family assessments and establishing thresholds.
The events are targeted at professionals working with parents and their families, who are dependent on substance misuse or who suffer from a mental illness; as well as those managers who have an interest in developing protocols building on the latest guidance. These events support the aims of the National Carers Strategy - Carers at the heart of 21st Century Families and Communities as well as encouraging local systems and services to join up and respond to the needs of whole families.
The Vision of the Carers Strategy is to ensure: Children and young people will be protected from inappropriate caring and have the support they need to learn, develop and thrive, to enjoy positive childhoods and to achieve against all the Every Child Matters outcomes.
The day will consist of plenary sessions and workshops that will include information regarding recent policy developments and guidance produced including:
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Working Together to Support Young Carers – A Model Local Memorandum of Understanding between Statutory Directors for Children’s Services and Adult Social Services (ADASS/ADCS 2009)
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Joint Guidance on Development of Local Protocols between Drug and Alcohol Treatment Services and Local Safeguarding and Family Services (DfE, DoH, NTA)
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Think Child, Think Parent, Think Family: a guide to parental mental health and child welfare (SCIE 2009)
Speakers on the day will include organisations and individuals responsible for development and implementation of these protocols and guidance as well as third sector and local authorities showcasing good practice.
Delegates will have the opportunity to attend two workshops focusing on good practice and sharing solutions. Drawn from a range of national initiatives these will explore engaging with families, joint working and whole family solutions to help all organisations meet current legislation and guidance.
(these conferences were previously titled: 'Think Family' for young carers: Developing the vision. The title has subsequestly changed to reflect Government changes)
For further information regarding booking your place, or to book via a different medium contact:
Gabby Wilson
Conference Team
The Children's Society Include Project | Unit 4 Calford House |
Wessex Business Park | Wessex Way | Colden Common | Hampshire | SO21 1WP
Tel: 0844 561 1066
Fax: 0844 561 1067
Email: info@childrenssocietyconferences.org
Feedback from the first Conference
On the 10th March the first 'Think Family' for young carers - Developing the Vision conference took place in Newcastle.
Delegates comments and feedback from the event:
‘Very informative and worthwhile conference, keep up the good work to keep driving this important idea forward’
‘Thanks, great learning opportunity with awareness of service development’
‘Good to share experiences and see key themes and findings nationally are the same’
