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 FROM EXTRAORDINARY LIVES TO ORDINARY LIVES
   
 

Full-Day Seminar – Corporate Parenting & NEET

19 April 2007
COSLA Conference Centre, Rosebery House, 9 Haymarket Terrace, Edinburgh

10.00 Opening Remarks – Colin MacLean, Head of the Scottish Executive Education Department
10.15 Keynote speaker – Jill Stansfield, Executive Director for Communities, London Borough of Barnet (download presentation)
10.50 Speakers – Phil Jones & John Burns, Dumfries & Galloway – redesign of children’s health services (download presentation)
11.15 Coffee
11.30

Presentation and Facilitated Discussion (delegates choose one)

  1. The role of the inspectorates in supporting the improvement of corporate parenting – Gill Ottley, SWIA & Neil McKechnie, HMIe (download presentation)
  2. What does a Social Work Director need from his/her corporate                                    management team? Graham Blair, West Lothian Council (download presentation)
  3. The role of housing in supporting young people into work or further education (UK perspective), Helen Forsyth, Regeneration Director, Places for People (download presentation)
  4. What do young people want from the corporate parent? Alison Caulfield, Scottish Throughcare and Aftercare Forum and the Debate Project
12.30 Lunch
13.15 Introduction  - Sandy Watson, Secretary SOLACE (Scotland)
13.20 Keynote Speaker – Sir Robert Smith, Chairman of Scottish and Southern Energy and the Weir Group, and Chair of the Smith Group
13.45 The Glasgow Experience – Ronnie O’Connor, Executive Director, Education, Training and Young People, Glasgow City Council (download presentation)
14.05 The Further Education Perspective – Iain Ovens, OBE, Principal Dundee College (download presentation)
14.20 The Implications for Teacher Training – Professor Bryan Boyd, Strathclyde University (download presentation)
14.40 Consulting Young People – Louise MacDonald, Depute Chief Executive, Young Scot and Rajiv Joshi, Chair, Scottish Youth Parliament
15:00 Coffee
15:15 Panel, Chaired by: Sandy Watson, Secretary SOLACE (Scotland)

Christine Pollock, Head of Education, North Lanarkshire Council, ADES Vice President
Michelle Miller, Chief Social Work Officer, City of Edinburgh Council, Chair of ADSW Children & Families Standing Committee
Norma Wright, Programme Director, Learning and Teaching Scotland
Julie-Anne Jamieson, Head of Employability, Careers Scotland
The Debate Project – 2 young people
John Kemp, Depute Director of Strategic Development, Scottish Funding council
Linda McTavish, Principal, Anniesland College
Caroline Selkirk, Child Health Commissioner, NHS Tayside
Professor Bryan Boyd, Strathclyde University
16.00 Concluding Remarks – Sandy Watson, Secretary SOLACE (Scotland)

 

   
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