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CCPS conference 2001

Making Sense Of Community Care

Thursday 27th – Friday 28th September 2001

Hilton Dunblane Hydro

This highly successful two-day conference was organised by CCPS in collaboration with the Scottish Council Foundation and with the support of the Scottish Executive Social Work Services Inspectorate.

The event attracted over 140 delegates and contributors from the voluntary sector, local authority social work and housing departments and committees, Local Health Care Co-ops and Health Boards as well as a variety of other agencies, organisations and institutions working in the field of community care.

The event aimed to provide some 'thinking space' where delegates could consider the sheer number and complexity of initiatives relating to community care and work together to understand the connections – and the conflicts – between them.

The conference used a number of innovative techniques, including the latest digital voting technology which enabled delegates to give quick-response reactions to a range of radical proposals for future action.

As well as this technique, the conference also benefited from the services of Don Braisby, an 'information architect', who produced a wallchart as a graphic recording of all the discussions that took place in both plenary and workshop sessions.