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Promoting the health and well-being of looked after children: implementing the guidance locally (Y & H)

Friday, March 12, 2010 from 9:30 AM to 4:00 PM (GMT)

North Yorkshire, United Kingdom

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Everyone working with looked after children has a role to play in promoting their health and well-being. In November 2009 DCSF and DH published Statutory guidance on promoting the health and well-being of Looked after Children to guide local authorities, PCTs and SHAs in meeting their duties.

NCB is organising a series of free regional conferences on behalf of DCSF and DH to support the implementation of the guidance. These events are essential for those with strategic, commissioning and operational responsibility for looked after children’s health and well-being, and will help delegates to understand the guidance and how they can implement it. Delegates will hear an overview of the guidance, learn about its implications for their work and think through their practical next steps for implementation.

Delegates will also learn from local and regional examples of good practice, hear the views of children and young people on how make their health assessments meaningful, hear about drivers to implement the guidance - including National Indicator 58 and regulatory activity - and find out more about the forthcoming NICE/SCIE guidance.

 Why attend?

  • Hear an overview of the guidance
  • Using the framework of the statutory guidance as a starting point, identify gaps between current local practice and what should be happening in order to deliver the best possible outcomes for looked after children and young people
  • Share ideas with colleagues about practical actions to implement the guidance
  • Hear how the guidance will be incorporated into existing and future regulatory activity
  • Learn from effective practice in making systems, processes and practice work better for looked after children’s health and well-being

 Who should attend

  • Directors and Assistant Directors of Children’s Services
  • Chief Executives of PCTs
  • PCT commissioners
  • Local Authority/Children’s Trust Commissioners
  • Public health leads
  • Designated doctors and nurses
  • Looked After Children’s Services Managers
  • Lead health professionals
  • CAMHS service managers
  • Social workers
  • Independent Reviewing Officers
  • GPs
  • Managers and health leads from fostering providers, residential special schools and children’s homes   
  • Others with an interest in looked after children’s health and well-being.

 Draft programme

9.30

Registration and refreshments

10.00

Welcome and introduction by Chair
Helen McMullen, Director for Children and Learners, Government Office for Yorkshire and Humber

10.10

Morning session: strategic overview of the guidance and discussion of next steps. Presentations will cover:

·         Joint working between local authorities, PCTs and SHAs

·         The roles and responsibilities of local authorities

·         The roles and responsibilities of the NHS: Commissioning effective services, delivering through provider organisations, contribution of Primary Care Teams

·         Promoting the emotional health and wellbeing of looked after children: unpacking the guidance, including how to collect and use robust data on NI58 in order to improve commissioning and improve CAMHS services in order to meet the needs of looked after children and young people more effectively

·         Mini-audit of local practice

·         Regulator’s perspective: how the guidance will be incorporated into existing and future regulatory activity from the Care Quality Commission

1.00

Lunch

1.50

Afternoon session: putting the guidance into practice. Presentations will cover

·         Engaging children and young people effectively in their health assessment

·         Regional working to support implementation

·         Local and regional practice examples in implementing the guidance

3.30

Final plenary session

4.00

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When & Where



National Centre for Early Music
St. Margarets Church, Walmgate
York
YO1 9TL North Yorkshire
United Kingdom

Friday, March 12, 2010 from 9:30 AM to 4:00 PM (GMT)


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