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ICHA Conference 2010: 'The Need for Quality Residential Care'.
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Conference

THE NEED FOR QUALITY CHILDCARE
Date held 18th February 2010

Notes from the Conference

Chair

Lord Listowel
Lord Listowel first entered the House of Lords in 1997 and was elected a hereditary peer in 1999. Lord Listowe has a special interest in working on behalf of under-privileged young people, both in the House and on a face-to-face basis in various settings.

Guest Speakers

Katy Birch , Regional Lead for the South West Region and Programme Policy Lead for Children and Families
Katy is currently Regional Lead for the Commissioning Support Programme in the South West of England and also the Commissioning Support Programme lead for ‘Children and Families’ including commissioning for improved outcomes for looked after children and children with complex needs.
Starting out as a child care specialist lawyer in the public and private sector, Katy has also worked for the last 13 years at Oxford Brookes University’s Institute of Public Care undertaking a variety of research and consultancy projects specific to children and young people’s services.

Katy also teaches on the IPC post graduate certificate courses in Commissioning, and Leading Improvement and Change in Public Care Services.

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Chris Sands , Head of Individual Commissioning for Children & Young People, Gloucestershire County Council
Chris Sands is a highly regarded practitioner in the sphere of social care.   His career path began at ‘the deep end’ as a residential social worker within a therapeutic community followed by 4 successful years with a local authority youth service. At every stage of his career Chris’s abiding passion has focused on achieving the best outcomes for children and young people.  In his current role as Head of Individual Commissioning within the Gloucestershire Children and Young People’s Directorate this continues to be his guiding principle.  Supported by the South West Regional Improvement and Efficiency Partnership, Chris has been leading on the implementation of the County’s Complex Needs Strategy.  As part of this, his work on outcome focused commissioning is being recognised as an example of best practice by a number of local authorities.  Chris currently lives and works in Gloucestershire.

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Johnathan Stanley , Manager, NCERCC
Jonathan manages the DCSF funded collaborative initiative to improve standards of practice and outcomes for children and young people in residential child care in England. NCERCC is a principal point of reference and facilitates dialogue across the whole residential sector of England. NCERCC works collaboratively with key stakeholders: providers, practitioners, commissioners, researchers, regulators, children and young people are involved it its work.

Jonathan has worked in local authority, voluntary and independent sectors managing residential and associated integrated provision (education, care, health) for national resources addressing the learning, emotional, and social needs of young people. He has provided training and consultancy on a wide range of subject areas to audiences, both specialised and mainstream seeking to bring the learning from one area for use in another.

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Andrew Rome , Consultant - Revolution Consulting
Previously Managing Director of Sedgemoor, the largest private provider of services in the sector, including children's homes, residential special schools and fostering.

Ex Chairman/Co-Chairman of trade associations including ICHA (Independent Children's Homes Association).

Over 20 years of broad commercial experience with Ernst & Young, Proctor & Gamble, Reckitt Benckiser, and Danisco. Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Andrew’s presentation was based on the report linked below.

Andrews full paper: Developing better commissioning activities

Raphael Silver , Solicitor, Silver Fitzgerald Solicitors, Cambridge
Raphael Silver qualified as a solicitor in 1984 and has always worked in litigation.

In 1991 Raphael became a member of the Law Society’s Children Panel. He has a strong practice representing children and has been cited in Chambers and Partners for years as a market leader in this field and prior to that as a leading criminal lawyer.

He has carried some of this skills base into the care sector where he has acted on behalf of providers and individuals since 2001.His work includes regulatory compliance, safeguarding and employment law.

He has provided training to his Local Safeguarding Board and the Royal Society of Medicine.bio

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Jim Sullivan , Co-Chair, Independent Children’s Homes Association
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Woodenhill UK , Drama Group who represent the views of young people in the care system
Key objectives are listed as:

To provide educational activities to help people to integrate into their communities or society as a whole. Target groups include (but are not restricted to) young people, the elderly, the physically or mentally ill, offenders, those not in education, training or employment and the socially isolated

To provide educational activities to volunteers and professionals working with these groups to enable them to better promote, support, understand and communicate with their client base

To provide activities which bring together professionals, volunteers and those with whom they are working to help them develop positive working relationships and allow all present to gain a better understanding of the latter's needs and how the former groups can effectively support those needs

That you can't always measure potential or evaluate outcomes with tick boxes and graphs and that the bedrock to all successful relationships is communication

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Zara Bailey , Advocacy West Midlands, Regional Manager
Zara has over five years post qualifying experience in working in the field of rights based advocacy and support for all vulnerable people. Her background of experience has centred around working within the Criminal Justice and Social Care system on an advice and consultancy basis. Offering advice and support to professionals, individuals and family members or carers who are supporting vulnerable victims who experienced crime, abuse or discrimination.
Before taking up her post with AWM Zara managed the national charity Voice UK’s helpline and outreach support service.  Specialising in supporting issues faced in cases of abuse and disability discrimination. Zara has over five years post qualifying experience in working in the field of rights based advocacy and support for all vulnerable people. Her background of experience has centred around working within the Criminal Justice and Social Care system on an advice and consultancy basis. Offering advice and support to professionals, individuals and family members or carers who are supporting vulnerable victims who experienced crime, abuse or discrimination.
Before taking up her post with AWM Zara managed the national charity Voice UK’s helpline and outreach support service.  Specialising in supporting issues faced in cases of abuse and disability discrimination.

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Roger Morgan , Children’s Rights Director for England
Roger is the Children’s Rights Director for England, with national statutory functions to ascertain and report the views of children living away from home or receiving social care services, to advise on children’s rights and welfare, and to identify and raise children’s rights and welfare issues he considers significant. 
In the past, Roger has worked as a university Research Fellow, in social services management including a period directing a county social services department, and as a policy adviser at the Department of Health.  He was an author of the original National Minimum Standards for welfare in children’s homes, boarding schools, residential special schools and residential further education colleges.  In the 1970s he initiated paired reading for parents to help children read, and gained his PhD for treatment of bedwetting in children.  He still runs a weekly treatment clinic for bedwetting.  Roger is President of “ERIC” (the national charity for continence in children), a Member of the Children’s Workforce Development Council.  He was awarded the OBE in 2001 for services to children.

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