The CCHN's Summer 2013 conference, Barns is being held at Conference Centre, Planned Environment Therapy Trust, Church Lane, Toddington, Gloucestershire GL54 5DQ on July 25th. A stimulating day conference has been planned to do some fundamental thinking about child protection.
For the last forty years child protection and safeguarding have dominated social work with children and their families. The conference will look at how this thinking has developed and ask whether it is time to move on to a different way of viewing ways of meeting children's needs. In addition to the formal papers, the day will provide opportunities for delegates to participate and share thinking on the theme.
Programme
10.30 Arrival, registration and refreshments
11.00 Welcome and introduction to morning session: David Lane
11.15 Professor Ray Jones: Child protection and safeguarding
11.45 Jennifer Crane: The Historical Construction of 'Child Abuse', 1960-2000
12.00 Sir Roger Singleton: Protection systems: where next?
12.30 Discussion
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Introduction to afternoon session: Charles Sharpe
14.15 Mark Smith: Bringing up children: a pedagogical perspective
15.00 Discussion
15.15 Refreshments
15.45 Panel and discussion: Where next?
16.30 Charles Sharpe: In conclusion
16.45 End of conference
SPEAKERS
SIR ROGER SINGLETON Chair of the Independent Safeguarding Authority and the Government's Chief Adviser on the Safety of Children, with a background including Barnardo's as Chief Executive from 1984-2006.
RAY JONES Professor of Social Work at the Faculty of Health, Social Care and Education, run jointly by Kingston University and St George's, University of London, as well as Chair of Bristol's Safeguarding Children Board, with a career which has included Chief Executive of the Social Care Institute for Excellence, and Director of Social Services in Wiltshire.
MARK SMITH Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Edinburgh University, with an extensive background working in and managing residential school and care settings and secure accommodation, moving to Edinburgh in 2005 having established the first Masters level qualification for residential child care across the UK at the University of Strathclyde.
JENNIFER CRANE Wellcome Trust-funded doctoral student in the Centre for the History of Medicine at the University of Warwick, carrying out research on the theme "From 'unnameable problem' to 'worst possible vice': The Creation and Construction of "Child Abuse", 1960-2000".
CHARLES SHARPE Presiding editor of the goodenoughcaring Journal, who trained as a teacher, worked as a residential child care worker for twenty years, and is now a practicing psychotherapist who has worked as a consultant to children’s homes as well as teaching post-graduate courses on child development and therapeutic child care.
