Conference Reports
WMTD Care Matters Green Paper consultation events
Between Nov 2006 and Jan 2007, WMTD held four regional consultation events following the release of the Care Matters Green Paper. The events were held in London, Newcastle, Manchester and Exeter. They were attended by 339 young people, from over 90 local authorities, accompanied by 426 professionals. Click here to read the summary report.Alliance for Child Centred Care
The Alliance for Child Centred Care held its first conference on 31st May 2007. The conference brought together contributions from young people, Government, local authorities and voluntary organisations to promote more child and young people focused services for children in care and care leavers. Click here for more information on how the day went, here's a link to the page on the alliance website with all the photos on it from the conference: http://www.childcentred.org/galleryfull.php?categoryid=3
Regional Partnerships ... Positive Pathways
NLCAS and the regional leaving care forums in Yorkshire & Humber and the North East jointly organised a conference in York on Thursday 10th May 2007.The purpose of the conference was to promote the work that has been carried out by the regional forums in partnership with NLCAS in the last three years. Products and initiatives seeking to improve outcomes in education, training and employment, housing, pathway planning and consultation have been developed.
Championing Children Report
Summary of the key messages from young people to Corporate Parent(s) from a regional seminar 'Championing Children & Young People' in Yorkshire and Humber. You can download the report hereNLCAS Conference Report 2006
The full conference report, Just Getting By? Throughcare and Aftercare is now available. Please click here to download a copy.In preparation for the NLCAS conferences on 2nd February 2006 in London and 10th February 2006 in York, we have prepared a policy briefing which can be downloaded here: Throughcare Policy BriefingPresentations from the conferences
Here are some of the presentations from the conferences. nlcas accepts no responsibility for the contents of these presentations.Professor Mike Stein from York University gave a morning presentation entitled 'Pathways Through Care: getting by, getting on or getting nowhere?' at both London and York conferences. You can click here to view his presentation. Professor Ian Sinclair from York University gave an afternoon presentation entitled 'Do we want to start from here?' You can click here to view his presentation.Karen Turner and Sean Kershaw presented the workshop: 'Exit Strategies' at the York conference. Click here to view the presentation. 'Supporting Young People into Adulthood' was a good practice presentation made by representatives from Staffordshire. Click here to view the presentation.