Regional Events

Previous Events

• 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