Venue: Stormont Hotel, Belfast

Key seminar in Belfast on supporting communities and protecting vulnerable individuals in society.

How best can we most effectively deliver on both supporting people and safeguarding adults?

Developing and delivering effective approaches with positive outcomes to both support people in communities and safeguard vulnerable adults: Protection, Justice and Empowerment.

CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE:
· Margaret Ritchie MLA,  Minister for Social Development NI   (or Senior Official)
· Anne Henderson,  Deputy Chair,  Northern Ireland Housing Executive
· Seamus McAleavey,  Chief Executive,  NICVA
· Mervyn Eastwood,  Co-Director,  Change AGEnts
· Mike Walsh,  Director,  Care and Health Solutions
· Wendy Osborne,  Director,  Volunteer Development Agency
· Cheryl Lamont,  Deputy Director of Probation,  PBNI
· Kevin Keenan,  Assistant Director of Social Care and Children,  HSCB
· Alister Wallace,  Superintendent,  PSNI
· Tara Swann,  Chief Inspector,  PSNI
· Stuart Cuddy,  Deputy Chief Executive,  Northern Ireland Housing Executive
· Daniel Blake,  Policy Development Manager,  Action on Elder Abuse

ISSUES COVERED INCLUDE:
- Action not words: How do we ensure Supporting People has real impact on communities and individuals?
- What are Government's agenda and expectations?
- How effective are Supporting People programmes? What more needs to be done?
- How do we move forward from the 2007 Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (Northern Ireland) Order?
- How well are we guiding, training and supporting third sector work and outcomes?
- How best can we help professionals effectively use the range of legal powers that can tackle harm?
- How best should we safeguard older people, personalise services and fully protect from abuse?
- How best should we safeguard all vulnerable adults from financial abuse?
- How best can we support adults with a disability, providing opportunities for education, training and work?
- How best can we personalise services for vulnerable adults by transforming in-house services?
- How better can needs be met by developing publicly owned trading companies?
- How best can we support third sector bodies and volunteers through training programmes?
- How best can the police service best help vulnerable adults as victims, witnesses and offenders?
- How best can the probation service be involved, helping vulnerable offenders and preventing reoffending?
- How best can we look to the future and ensure practitioners are fully equipped and partnerships really work?
- Where can we hope to be in 10 years time?


This CPPS seminar brings together key figures from across sectors in the important debate on how best to support people and communities and particularly safeguard adults. How do we develop and deliver the most effective and seamless approaches both in Northern Ireland and across the UK and Ireland?

The day encourages brief, focused presentations followed by engaged discussion by all attending in a relaxed setting. It is hoped that it will make a valuable contribution to taking forward the issues.

The fee for the day's Seminar is £345.00 plus VAT.

Earlybird Discounted rate £250 + VAT for bookings received before 19 April 2010

GENEROUS NEGOTIATED DISCOUNTS ARE AVAILABLE FOR VOLUNTARY AND COMMUNITY ORGANISATIONS AND FOR MULTIPLE BOOKINGS.

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