Improving access to social care services: Turning barriers into breakthroughs

What do we know More info... children and young people deprived of their liberty? Latest evidence
Name of the presenter: Alice Roe
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Institution: Nuffield Justice Observatory
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This presentation will summarise recent research from the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory More info... the increasing use of the inherent jurisdiction of the high court to deprive children of their liberty and its implications for practice.
Alice Roe is a Researcher at the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory. The Nuffield Family Justice Observatory improves the lives of children and families by putting data and evidence at the heart of the family justice system.

The Contextual Safeguarding framework – embedding theory into practice
Name of the presenter: Dr Rachel Owens
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Institution: University of Durham
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Dr Rachael Owens is Social Work Practice Advisor for the Contextual Safeguarding project at the University of Durham. For the last three years she has been working with local authority children’s services to test, create and embed systems that respond to adolescent harm outside the home using the Contextual Safeguarding framework. Rachael has been involved in participatory and relationship-based practice for over twenty years, with experience in the voluntary and statutory sectors, and within a range of settings including mental and physical health, family support, missing children and youth justice.

The Place of Shared Decision Making in mental health and social Work Practice
Name of presenter: Prof. Shulamit Ramon
Email address: s.ramon@herts.ac.uk
Institution: University of Hertfordshire
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Shulamit Ramon is professor of social inclusion and wellbeing at the University of Hertfordshire. She is a registered social worker and chartered clinical psychologist by her training.
Her research areas include domestic violence, shared decision making, and social work with asylum seekers in the UK, the EU, and beyond. She has published 13 books and more than 100 peer reviewed articles, and has engaged people with lived experience of disability, domestic violence and migration in her research projects.

Will to survive’: the lives of young people with ‘no papers’ in the UK

Name of the presenter: Dr Yeşim Deveci
Email address: y.deveci@uel.ac.uk
Institution: University of East London
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Yeṣim Deveci is a Senior Lecturer at the University of East London and Director of the Open Learning Initiative (OLIve) which supports refugees and asylum seekers to access Higher Education in the UK. Yeṣim has more than 20 years’ experience of working with children and young people subject to UK immigration control including unaccompanied asylum seeking children, survivors of child trafficking, and those with irregular/undocumented status. Yeṣim was the Founder/Director of Dost Centre for Young Refugees & Migrants (2000 - 2013).

Experiences of Care experienced young people when they become parents
Name of the presenter: Kelli Ray
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Kelli Ray is a care experienced parent, who has had extensive involvement with supporting services working with care experienced young people. She is a founding member of Ohana, the support group for care experienced young parents. She has worked for many years as a lead member in CHICC and has provided training to professionals on working with care experienced young people.

An Expert By Experience view of how good conversations can break down barriers in life and lead to better lives and research
Name of the presenter: Sam Prowse
Email address: Sam.Prowse@hertfordshire.gov.uk
Institution: Hertfordshire Adult Disability Service/Adult Care Services
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Sam Prowse will be talking in an interview with Prof Brian Littlechild from the University of Hertfordshire concerning his and other peoples experiences in interacting with Health and social care. Now working within the Hertfordshire Adult Disability Service/Adult Care Services, Sam has a unique perspective. His work includes being a part of the project Making positive moves: What support do people with Learning Disabilities need to remain living in the community after moving under the Transforming Care Programme. A qualitative longitudinal study, as part of 'NIHR Funding and Awards’.