Making Research Count;
Improving outcomes for children, young people, adults and their families
Programme
17th June 2015, Keele Hall, University of Keele
9.30 am
Registration and refreshments
10.00 am
Welcome to Making Research
Count; knowledge based practice
and the use of research
James Blewett, Making
Research Count National
Co-ordinator, Kings College
London
Confirmed
10.15 am
21st Century Staffordshire;
challenges and opportunities in
social work
Lee Pardy-McLaughlin,
Principal Child and Family
Social Worker, Staffordshire
County Council, and
Andrew Errington,
Professional Head of Social
Work, Staffordshire and
Stoke-on-Trent Partnership
NHS Trust
Confirmed
10.30 am
Keynote speaker with Q&A
Professor Harry Ferguson
Confirmed
Relational depth and its impact in
social work with children and families:
Evidence from research
11.30am
Break and refreshments
11.45am
Choice of the 4 following research
and practice workshops
Workshop 1
Developing a MRC programme for
Staffordshire; learn about good
practice from around the country and
give your views
James Blewett
Confirmed
Workshop 2
Ten years of the Mental Capacity
Act; capturing experience
Jill Manthorpe, Kings
College London
Confirmed
Workshop 3
A Relationship-based approach to
social work with adults
Clare Parkinson, The Centre Confirmed
for Social Work Practice
Workshop 4
Adolescent neglect
Phil Raws, Senior
Researcher, The Children’s
Society
Confirmed
12.45pm
Lunch
1.30pm
KEYNOTE SPEAKER with Q&A
Reimagining children and adults
social work
Professor Sue White,
Birmingham University
Confirmed
2.30pm
Choice of the 4 following research
and practice workshops
Workshop 5
Parental Alcohol Misuse:
uncovering and responding to
children’s needs at a local level
Jo Manning, the Children’s
Society
Confirmed
Workshop 6
The experiences, meanings and
challenges of older women’s
sexualities
Models of adult safeguarding
practice; different models, different
outcomes
Rhiannon Jones, University
of Keele
Confirmed
Katie Graham, University of
York
Confirmed
Plenary and Next steps
Lee Pardy-McLaughlin,
Andrew Errington
Confirmed
Workshop 7
3.30pm
Evaluation
4.15pm
Close