Programme details for The Child Care History Network Autumn Conference

"From Coalface to Facebook?: using new social media and technology to record, remember and share child care experience"
November 11th, 2010  Planned Environment Therapy Trust Conference Centre
Toddington, Gloucestershire GL54 5DQ
PROGRAMME
10.00  Welcome to the Planned Environment Therapy Trust: John Cross, Executive
Director/Rich Rollinson, Chair, Planned Environment Therapy Trust
Welcome to the CCHN and Conference: David Lane, Chair CCHN
10.45. Introduction to the issues, concerns, and objects of the day : Charles Sharpe, CCHN
Board Member, psychodynamic counsellor and psychotherapist, co-editor, The
goodenoughcaring Journal
11.15 The tools in question: The "new media": What is it, and what's on the horizon? What is possible?  John Moorhouse, independent I.T. specialist and Trustee, Planned
Environment Therapy Trust
11.45 Coffee and biscuits
12.00 New technologies in life story work with adolescents in residential care, Simon
Hammond, PhD Researcher, University of East Anglia
12.45 Discussion: The morning session
1.00 Lunch
2.00 Case Studies: The new media in use: issues and actualities
2.00- 2.30 Dr. Jim Goddard, Secretary of the Care Leaver's Association and Senior Lecturer in
Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Bradford
2.30 - 3.00 Gudrun Limbrick, Oral Historian for the Birmingham Children's Home Oral History
project
3.00 - 3.30 Mark Twinberrow, project volunteer and former Bodenham Manor School student;
Gemma Geldart, project oral historian, Dr. Craig Fees, project director, "Therapeutic
Living With Other People's Children" project
3.30-4.00 Discussion: Where next ?
Places are still available for the conference. The cost is £75 for individuals / £90 for organisations, to include lunch, refreshments, and annual CCHN membership fees.
There is comfortable on-site accommodation for those wishing to stay the night of the 10th and/or of the 11th - please contact Joanna Jansen at the Planned Environment Therapy Trust for details,
on 01242 621200 or Trust@pettrust.org.uk.
To book a place at the conference please contact either Maureen or Joanna on 01242 621200 or Trust@pettrust.org.uk.
The Annual General Meeting of the Child Care History Network will take place at 9.30, immediately before the
conference.
For further information, please go to the Child Care History Network site at  www.cchn.org.uk/
(First posted on the goodenoughcaring website on November 4th, 20100.

National Care Leavers' Week : conference October 28th

Janet Rich of the National Care Leavers' Foundation informs us that there is still time to book a place on this year's National Care Leavers' Week conference in central London on Thursday 28th October.
Highlights include a keynote talk from Children’s Minster Tim Loughton setting out for the first time since the Comprehensive Spending Review the future of leaving care services and the Coalition vision for looked after children.
An opportunity to hear from NICE and SCIE about new guidance on Promoting the Quality of Life of Looked After Children
Plus a variety of sessions from professionals and care leavers on good practice in housing, mental health and other issues impacting on care leavers
Visit http://www.carematterspartnership.co.uk/conferences/details/14/ for more details or contact Maria Savage 020 7384 2365 bookings@carematterspartnership.co.uk
VISIT http://www.lifeaftercare.tv/ to see Children’s Minister Tim Loughton answer questions from care leavers about the future of leaving care services
 see http://www.nationalcareleaversweek.org/  for full details of all events.