Social work conference: What progress? What potential?
Date: Friday 5 November 2010
Time: 9.15am - 4.15pm
Venue: Lawley Lecture Theatre, Kingston Hill Campus, Kingston University
Cost: £50 (free to Kingston University and St George’s, University of London students and staff)
For information and registration contact: Melanie Hueser, tel +44 (0)208 8725 0134 or email m.hueser@sgul.kingston.ac.uk (please register by 25 October)
The Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences is pleased to present this major one day social work conference, hosted by the School of Social Work as part of its annual Olive Stevenson Seminar Series.
The conference will provide a forum to debate social work’s progress and discuss opportunities for its development. Update your knowledge of best practice by attending a variety of workshops on current social work themes and discover the latest research from the School of Social Work. Full details of the workshops to be offered will be confirmed nearer the date, and will encourage discussions among social work practitioners, service users, lecturers and students.
The conference will be chaired by Professor Olive Stevenson, who will give her annual ‘thought for the day’ presentation.
Plenary presentations will include ‘Social work reform board: Action and progress’ and ‘Realising the potential’. These will be presented by:
- Hilary Tompsett, Chair of the Social Work Education Subgroup of the Social Work Reform Board, Vice-Chair of the General Social Care Council, and Head of the School of Social Work in the Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences
- Corinne May-Chahal, Joint Chair of the Council for Social Work and Professor of Social Work at Lancaster University