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CCPS conference 2008

Thursday 27 and Friday 28 November 2008

Dunblane Hydro Hotel

Keynote speakers:

John Swinney, Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth

Nigel Walker, Senior Advisor for Commissioning, Department of Health

Julia Unwin, Director, Joseph Rowntree Foundation

The CCPS Conference 2008 will focus on three priority areas:

• the Concordat: six months into the new funding arrangements for local government, the conference will look at the impact of the move to single outcome agreements, the removal of ringfencing, and the 2% efficiency requirement, and will examine business models for providers in the new environment
• commissioning and procurement: analysing of the impact of new procurement models and service re-tendering – including the perspective of service users – and discuss commissioning for outcomes
• personalisation: continuing the debate on what ‘personalisation’ means for individuals, services and service providers, and how it supports empowerment and citizenship.

Full programme and rates due for publication in the early summer

CCPS Conference 2006

The CCPS Conference 2006, which took place in late November at the Dunblane Hydro, was an extremely successful event (even if we say so ourselves).  The conference was the platform for CCPS to launch its report on Changing Lives and public service reform, Ready Willing and Able, which has now been distributed to all members.  The report makes a number of recommendations regarding priorities for reform, radically changing the commissioning process and organising the ‘market’ for social care more fairly.  At the conference, key figures – including David Crawford, President of ADSW; Rory Mair, Chief Executive of COSLA; and Val Cox, Head of Social Care Policy at the Scottish Executive – were given the opportunity to comment on the report, and over the two days, the themes were examined in detail in a series of plenary sessions and small group discussions.

The report can be downloaded here, and the summary of key messages is available here.

• Click here [PDF] to view the programme for Ready Willing and Able? Responding to public service reform for 21st century social care. For copies of presentations or further information contact the CCPS office.

Previous CCPS Conferences

• Click here [PDF] to view the programme for Moving In, Moving Through, Moving On: Transitions in Social Care and Support, the CCPS annual conference 2005. For copies of presentations or further information contact the CCPS office.
• Click here to read a summary of Community Care: The Art of the Possible, the CCPS annual conference 2003, and view the opening film produced by the Network Steering Group.
• Click here to read the report of Mirror, signal, manoeuvre – driving forward community care in Scotland, the CCPS annual conference 2002, and view a video summary of the proceedings
• Click here to read the report of Making sense of community care, the CCPS annual conference 2001

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