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 Forthcoming events
We regularly monitor a range of organisations for details of forthcoming events; all those selected are relevant to local authority education and children's services
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Tuesday 7th September 2010 |
| Title |
Transforming school food culture - canteen, classroom and community |
| Organiser |
Westminster Food & Nutrition Forum and Westminster Education Forum |
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This seminar will examine progress towards improving the school lunchtime and raising the nutritional standard of school food. |
| Venue |
Central London |
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Wednesday 15th September 2010 |
| Title |
Academies and free schools - the next steps for policy |
| Organiser |
Westminster Education Forum |
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This seminar will offer a timely opportunity to discuss the future of the academies programme and the establishment of ‘free schools' – schools run by outside providers with state funds. |
| Venue |
Central London |
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| Date |
Thursday 16th September 2010 |
| Title |
Increasing Efficiency in Children's Services |
| Organiser |
LGC |
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This conference investigates how working in partnership, commissioning and de-commissioning and re-shaping your services can allow you to make significant efficiency savings. |
| Venue |
London |
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| Date |
Tuesday 21st September 2010 |
| Title |
Sure Start 2010 - 8th Annual Conference |
| Organiser |
Neil Stewart Associates |
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This post-election conference taking place on 21st September, will again keep you up to date with the latest Government policy and guidance and provide a wealth of practical advice to help your centre operate an effective and efficient service, which meets the need of the families and children in your area. |
| Venue |
Central London |
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| Date |
Wednesday 22nd September 2010 |
| Title |
14-19 Diplomas |
| Organiser |
Neil Stewart Associates |
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This original independent examination of Diplomas, now in its fifth year, will bring together leaders, experts and professionals responsible for the 14-19 Diploma. |
| Venue |
Central London |
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| Date |
Monday 27th September 2010 |
| Title |
Extended Schools Conference |
| Organiser |
Capita |
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This Conference focuses on strengthening provision by effectively commissioning and evaluating services in order to improve the well-being, attainment and aspiration of children, young people and their families.
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| Venue |
Manchester |
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| Date |
Monday 27th September 2010 |
| Title |
How Best Can We Deliver Excellent Child Protection Services? |
| Organiser |
CPPS |
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This CPPS seminar brings together key figures from across sectors in the important debate on how children's social work and child protection and be more effective, less bureaucratic and more cost-effective to meet the Coalition Government's aims and expectations at a time of major cuts in public expenditure. |
| Venue |
The Royal Commonwealth Society in London |
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Thursday 7th October 2010 |
| Title |
Raising Attainment: Overcoming Underachievement in Schools |
| Organiser |
Inside Government |
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Raising Attainment: Overcoming Underachievement in Schools is one of Inside Government's most popular forums and provides delegates with an essential platform to discuss what progress has been made in raising standards in secondary schools, with particular focus on those whose students are underachieving at GCSE level. |
| Venue |
Central London |
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| Date |
Monday 11th October 2010 |
| Title |
Not in Education, Employment or Training (NEET) |
| Organiser |
Capita |
| Content |
Not in Education, Employment or Training (NEET)
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| Venue |
Central London |
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| Date |
Tuesday 12th October 2010 |
| Title |
Early years 2010 |
| Organiser |
LGC |
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Early years 2010 will ensure you leave with: New knowledge and skills to enable you to develop and move forward within early years; Tangible ideas to implement into your setting; A clearer vision of how to progress successfully and improve outcomes; The knowledge you need to fully support your early years community; Fresh ideas to progress forward in your support and funding for a greater workforce. |
| Venue |
Central London |
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| Date |
13th- 15th October 2010 |
| Title |
NCOGS Annual Conference - Strengthening Governance |
| Organiser |
NCOGS |
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This event will be the culmination of work that has been started over the preceding months. The theme of stronger governance features in the white paper Your Child, Your Schools, Our Future, as well as publications from elsewhere including the National Strategies. |
| Venue |
Jury's Inn, Birmingham. |
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| Date |
Thursday 14th October 2010 |
| Title |
Information Sharing and Data Protection |
| Organiser |
Capita |
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Capita's 9th National Information Sharing and Data Protection Conference will provide delegates with the skills needed to achieve excellence in sharing data within and across organisations. It also provides guidance on how to implement new procedures for protecting personal data. |
| Venue |
Central London |
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| Date |
Tuesday 19th October 2010 |
| Title |
Measuring Impacts and Outcomes |
| Organiser |
Children and Young People Now/Haymarket Events |
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Children And Young People Now's conference will explore how to measure impacts and outcomes in practice and demonstrate the true impact your service is having on children and young people's lives. |
| Venue |
Centennial Centre, Birmingham |
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| Date |
Wednesday 20th October 2010 |
| Title |
Supporting Teenage Parents |
| Organiser |
Capita |
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This conference tackles the many challenges in providing assistance and meeting the needs of young parents. Through a methodical look at service provision, this agenda gets to the heart of how we can help young families thrive and prosper in a difficult economic and social climate.
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| Venue |
Central London |
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| Date |
Thursday 21st October 2010 |
| Title |
Welfare Reform Conference |
| Organiser |
Capita |
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Capita's 6th National Welfare Reform Conference comes at a crucial time as the new Coalition Government begins to outline its plans for a radical overhaul of the Welfare-to-Work programmes. |
| Venue |
Central London |
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| Date |
Thursday 21st October 2010 |
| Title |
Youth offending: the future for resettlement and accountability |
| Organiser |
LGA |
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This conference aims to bring together those who plan, deliver and are accountable for these services to see what is currently being achieved and engage in the dialogue about what more can be done to ensure the wellbeing of this high risk group and make a major contribution to community safety. |
| Venue |
Local Government House, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HZ |
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| Date |
Thursday 21st October 2010 |
| Title |
Reforming the National Curriculum: Creating a Curriculum Fit for the 21st Century |
| Organiser |
Inside Government |
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Over the summer, a primary school in Swindon is preparing to become one of the first academies.
Since coming into power, Michael Gove, Education Secretary announced his plans to allow schools to apply for academy status.
Attend this event and learn about 'The Role of Academies in Curricula Flexibility'.
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| Venue |
Central London |
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| Date |
Tuesday 2nd November 2010 |
| Title |
Special Educational Needs provision – the next steps |
| Organiser |
Westminster Education Forum |
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This timely seminar will look at the future of educational provision for children with Special Educational Needs (SEN) in a climate of severe budgetary constraint. It comes as the Government prepares to launch a wide-ranging Green Paper on SEN in the autumn, and follows Ofsted's review of SEN provision, due to be published this summer. |
| Venue |
Central London |
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| Date |
3rd- 5th November 2010 |
| Title |
National Children & Adult Services Conference 2010 |
| Organiser |
ADASS |
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The National Children and Adult Services Conference is an established event that sees an audience of approximately 1200 high-level attendees coming together for three days to discuss and debate the latest issues affecting children and adult services. |
| Venue |
Manchester Central |
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| Date |
Tuesday 16th November 2010 |
| Title |
Community focused schools: addressing child poverty |
| Organiser |
ContinYou |
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As part of the 2010 European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion, ContinYou Cymru's national conference will explore the vital role of community focused schools and out-of-school-hours learning (oshl) in addressing the impact of child poverty across Wales. |
| Venue |
The Pavilion Conference Venue, Llandrindod Wells |
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| Date |
Tuesday 16th November 2010 |
| Title |
Apprenticeships: Rebuilding the Economy with the Workforce of Tomorrow |
| Organiser |
Inside Government |
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With apprenticeships holding the key to the future economic growth in the UK, Inside Government is pleased to introduce, 'Apprenticeships: Rebuilding Our Economy with the Workforce of Tomorrow', a unique and exciting forum which will provide delegates with an opportunity to learn about the government's plans for apprenticeships from leading experts who help drive the government agenda. |
| Venue |
Central London |
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| Date |
Tuesday 23rd November 2010 |
| Title |
Early intervention for Families at Risk |
| Organiser |
Capita |
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Capita's 8th National Early Intervention for Families At-Risk conference explores strategies to ensure the effective delivery of early intervention schemes to secure better outcomes for vulnerable families. |
| Venue |
Central London |
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| Date |
2nd December 2010- 2nd November 2010 |
| Title |
The Education Summit 2010 |
| Organiser |
Westminster Briefing |
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As the Coalition Government works to reshape policy and restructure practice through radical education reform, this conference will bring together experts and stakeholders to discuss and assess the way forward for reforming schools, giving our young people the education and skills they need, and providing employment opportunities for all. |
| Venue |
Central London |
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Wednesday 8th December 2010 |
| Title |
Public Sector Procurement |
| Organiser |
Public service Events |
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The Public Sector Procurement – a new era conference is designed to enable public sector personnel to embrace the changes and take advantage of the challenges ahead. The programme of expert presentations is designed to prepare delegates with the strategic information required to contribute to the new public sector procurement agenda. |
| Venue |
The Barbican, London |
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