Regional Events

This Regional Learning Project includes opportunities for people working within children's services across the East Midlands to work and learn together.

One of the most successful ways that this happens is through a series of regional events. Click on the dates below for the notes and presentations of previous events or details of forthcoming events.

Previous events

• May 18th 2009
  Nottingham Trent Vineyard
  Regional 14-19 Conference (GOEM) Diplomas: From Gateway 3 to Successful Delivery
• March 30th 2009
  NSPCC Training Centre, Leicester
  GOEM Childcare Act Conference
• March 24th 2009
  Trent Vineyard, Nottingham
  Integrated working in and around schools
• March 5th 2009
  Yew Lodge Kegworth
  Advanced Skills Teachers Regional Conference
• December 2nd 2008
  View from the Top, Waterstones Nottingham
  Unlocking the Potential
• November 3rd 2008
  Walker's Stadium, Leicester (recent change of venue)
  Using Outcomes Bsed Accountability to tackle child poverty (led by Mark Friedman)
• October 31st 2008
  The Nottingham Emmanuel School
  Regional Child Poverty Conference (organised by Govt Office)
• July 18th 2008
  Beaumanor Hall, Leicestershire
  Annual regional awayday for directors of childrens services and their assistants
• July 1st 2008
  Riverside, Derby
  Young People's Outcomes A multi-agency event to learn from up to 30 examples of interesting practice from around the East Midlands that are proving effective in improving outcomes for young people.
• March 12th 2008
  Stoke Rochford Hall, Grantham
  Promoting Participation A multi-agency event to share and learn from the various approaches being developed to promote the participation of children, young people and their families in service planning and delivery and in physical activity.
• November 1st 2007
  Walker\'s Stadium, Leicester
  Integrated and Locality Working
• July 6th 2007
  National Water Sports Centre, Nottingham
  Annual awayday for the Directors of Children's Services and their AD teams from across the nine local authorities of the East Midlands. This event is by invitation only.
• May 15th 2007
  Nottingham, Trent Vineyard
  Work with Parents to Improve Outcomes Regional Seminar Exhibition for Voluntary, Community and Independent organisations
• February 1st 2007
  CAF Regional Seminar, Pride Park Stadium, Derby County FC
  Common Assessment Framework and Lead Professional. A regional seminar provided in partnership with CWDC
• December 6th 2006
  Hilton East Midlands, M1 Junction 24
  Obesity - Turning the Curve An event for partners to explore just what the data is telling us about childhood obesity, what the story behind the data tells us, and what might be effective in 'turning the curve' downwards and break the trend
• November 7th 2006
  Athena, Leicester City Centre
  Mark Friedman developed an approach to improving outcomes for C&YP known as Results Based Accountability that has informed the ECM agenda. This is an opportunity to attend one of Marks' seminars and learn how his ideas might influence your work.
• July 21st 2006
  Beaumanor Hall, Leicestershire
  Annual regional awayday for Directors of Children's Services with their ADs and other officers. Presentations here about workforce strategies, commissioning and workshops on CAF, Vision 2010 and TYSP.
• July 7th 2006
  Center Parcs, Nottingham
  This event followed the theme of Improving Outcomes for Young People. Key items included the Targeted Youth Support pathfinder, youth participation and DfES work to refresh the ECM outcomes framework. All presentations and resources avaiable here
• May 12th 2006
  Loughborough
  The programme was focused on the themes of Workforce Development and Joint Area Review - plus some updates fromvarious action learning sets. Some of the key presentations and resources can be downloaded from here
• March 13th 2006
  Regional ECM Conference
  Some of the presentations and resources from this GOEM event, held at the East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham, are avaliable here
• January 20th 2006
  Quality Hotel, 1 mile M1 Jn 23 Loughborough
  Case studies of local multi-agency initiatives within the region. Information update from central government about Information Sharing and Assessment (ISA) and the IS Index.
• December 1st 2005
  Gateway Hotel, Nottingham
  Presentations on Common Assessment Framework, Children's & Young People's Plans, emerging practice and regional progress.
• November 4th 2005
  Holiday Inn, Leicester
  Presentations on workforce development from Children's Workforce Development Council and DfES