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December 2018
Building Community Capacity practitioners network meeting
Think Local Act Personal (TLAP) will be hosting the next Building Community Capacity practitioners network meeting on 12th December 2018 at The Centre for Voluntary Action in Digbeth, Birmingham. The theme of the event will be "Routes to Wellbeing: making a positive difference". Speakers will include: Patrick Hall -- Research Fellow, Sustainable Care Research Programme, University of Birmingham Eve Riley -- Project Manager, Richmond Group Taskforce on People Living with Multiple Conditions Jodie Stus -- Dance for Health Christine Eade -- The…
Find out more »February 2019
London evening seminar on the understanding and use of Trauma Informed Practice
The Academy for Social Justice Commissioning is pleased to announce an evening seminar to be held in London on Wednesday 13th February 2019 on the topic of the understanding and use of Trauma Informed Practice. Experience of trauma, especially psychological and emotional, is universal and impacts on all areas of human functioning, including physical, emotional, social and spiritual wellbeing. Trauma is often an “underlying” condition informing other problematic presentations, (e.g. drug/alcohol misuse/difficult behaviours). Trauma-informed practice builds on the foundation of awareness,…
Find out more »May 2019
Evening seminar in Manchester with Shelter CEO Polly Neate
The Academy for Social Justice Commissioning (AfSJC) is pleased to announce an evening seminar on Wednesday 8th May 2019 featuring Polly Neate, chief executive of the housing charity Shelter, who will be speaking on the topic of "power dynamics in 'service provision'". Prior to joining Shelter in August 2017, Polly was Chief Executive for Women’s Aid, and prior to that she was Executive Director of External Relations and Communications at Action for Children, one of the UK’s largest charities. These…
Find out more »June 2019
Evening seminar in Bristol on Adverse Childhood Experiences
The Academy for Social Justice Commissioning are pleased to announce an evening seminar to be held in Bristol on Tuesday 4th June 2019, on the topic of "Working to improve the lives of those exposed to Adverse Childhood Experiences". In this free seminar Dusty Kennedy and Ellie Worthington will share how Public Health Wales are responding to Adverse Childhood Experiences through awareness raising and the introduction of trauma-informed practice into policing, community, and secure youth/adult justice contexts. During their talk…
Find out more »One-day workshop in Oxford on setting and measuring outcomes
The Academy for Social Justice Commissioning (AfSJC) is pleased to announce a repeat of their popular workshop on "Setting and Measuring Outcomes" to be held in Oxford on Monday 10th June 2019. This popular free hands-on workshop will tackle both basic concepts and some of the latest thinking in order to equip attendees with a clear way forward to build an outcomes focus into their work, whether they are commissioning services or delivering them. The term ‘outcomes’ is used a…
Find out more »Helping each other out of the crisis
Public Service: state of transformation The PSTA's 2019 Conference See this year's full agenda for the day here. Reflect and develop yourself at the Publicservice: state of transformation conference. This year's theme is Helping each other out of the crisis and will be held on Tuesday 18 June 2019 at Mary Ward House in London. Our second annual conference is the leading platform for bringing together thought leaders and practitioners across public service transformation. Throughout the day you will be able to: Steal…
Find out more »Public Sector Solutions Expo 2019
Public Sector Solutions Expo (PSSxpo) aims "to empower the people behind public service transformation to deliver smarter, more efficient public services despite the challenging backdrop of budget constraints, political uncertainty and an ever-growing population. PSS connects market-leading solution providers with senior procurers, decision-makers and influencers from across local and central government and the wider public sector." It exists "to support the public sector by addressing the key challenges facing the sector", including; Sustainable public procurement; achieving efficiency and social value…
Find out more »September 2019
In pursuit of social outcomes: the international conference on impact bonds, outcomes contracts and beyond
The Government Outcomes Lab (GO Lab) at the University of Oxford, in partnership with the Policy Innovation & Evaluation Research Unit at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and with Newcastle University Business School, will on September 5th and 6th of this year be hosting the second annual conference on outcomes-based intervention models: Governments and international donor agencies around the world have become increasingly focused on outcomes – the positive results that programmes produce in the lives of…
Find out more »King’s Fund conference on “Thinking differently about commissioning”
The King's Fund is pleased to announce a one-day conference on "Thinking differently about commissioning", to be held at their London headquarters between 9am and 5pm on Wednesday 25th September. Commissioning and the role that commissioners play is changing. Providers and commissioners are increasingly planning services together, and commissioners are working across health and social care. The old ‘purchaser–provider’ split is blurring and what was once a system based on competition is evolving into a system focused on collaboration. Rather than…
Find out more »February 2020
Growing the New Economy: co-operative and social enterprise place-based innovation
Learning & thought leadership convention Queen Elizabeth Hall, Oldham, Manchester: 12 February 2020, 9.00-16.15 This national convention for 300 people will bring together an exciting mix of key decision makers from local authorities, leaders of co-operatives and social enterprises with funders and investors to explore how the social economy can play a much more central role in the economic and community wellbeing of places across the country. Participants will explore key learning and experience about what has worked in different…
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