• Why cross-party talks can deliver a more sustainable social care system, backed up by a long-term financial settlement.
• What must be done in the short term to fix the care system?
• What key reforms will deliver a solution for social care that lasts a generation and more?

Niall Dickson, Chief Executive, NHS Confederation

• How can the sector ensure people are receiving care that is consistently safe, compassionate, effective and high quality?

Kate Terroni, Chief Inspector – Adult Social Care, Care Quality Commission

• Building an integrated person-centred, co-ordinated care system.
• Embracing technology to ensure an individual-centred approach. 
• Investing in building a stable workforce that is sustainable for the sector.

Professor Martin Green OBE, Chief Executive, Care England

• Are programmes designed to deliver sustained improvements in dementia care working?
• What next for risk reduction, health and care dementia friendly communities and research?
• What else needs to be done to improve the quality of care in all settings?

Jeremy Hughes, Chief Executive Officer, Alzheimer’s Society

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• Will the widening of free provision of care create a more sustainable system of care for older people?
• How can the sector ensure greater parity of care for people with conditions such as dementia, while reducing the challenges faced by family members and other unpaid carers?
• Can sector partners such as local government, the NHS and the provider sector work together to ensure better social care provision for future generations?
• What can be done to stabilise the provider market, provide better access for people most in need, and protect them from the risk of catastrophic costs?

Deborah Alsina MBE, Chief Executive, Independent Age

Charles Tallack, Assistant Director – REAL Centre, The Health Foundation

Matthew West, Strategic Direction Programme Lead, Better Care Fund

Rehana Azam, National Secretary Public Services Section, GMB

Donna Campbell, Assistant Ombudsman, Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman

Chaired by Fiona Phillips, journalist, broadcaster and television presenter

• How our Government promises to fix social care and the lives of older people shaping up?
• Are we nearer to a clear agreement over where personal responsibility for social care ends and public contribution begins?
• What needs to be done to enable answers for tackling the long-term funding challenge facing adult social care?
• How can funding be provided consistently over time?

Dr. Eileen Burns, Past President, British Geriatrics Society

• Balancing the requirement between high quality care and greater efficiency.
• Understanding the political and economic drivers for change that impact the sector.
• Better records management to evidence compliance.
• Embracing regulation as a positive business process.

Taffy Gatawa, Chief Information and Compliance Officer, everyLIFE Technologies

• With a £3.6 billion funding gap by 2025 what should be done to ensure councils have certainty for both the immediate and long-term?
• What are the long-term sustainable funding solutions for adult social care?
• Why councils cannot rely on one-off funding injections?
  

Sally Burlington, Head of Policy, Local Government Association

• How can the sector ensure equality, diversity and human rights are evident for all groups?
• How should workforce training evolve to meet the needs of all communities?
• What dies the care home sector need to do to attract more diverse talent in the future?
  

Dr. Sharif Haider, Lecturer in Social Work, Open University

• Is the sector any closer to attracting and retaining a person-centred workforce through pay, working conditions and access to professional development?
• What more needs to be done to professionalise the sector and attract and retain the right people?
• Skills development and assurance – what more needs to be done to invest in education and training?

Brendan Martin, Managing Director, Buurtzorg and Founder, Public World

• What are the barriers to building homes with older people in mind?
• How will technology drive improvements in safety in the homes of older people?
• How can simple modifications via innovation save money for the NHS and increase mobility?
• What needs to be done to allow manufacturers to create products that are flexible and span the generations?

Dr Helen Meese, CEO, The Care Machine and Trustee, Institution of Mechanical Engineers

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16:10 – 16:30

The Evolution of Care Delivery

Mike Parish, Chair of Care UK, will provide insight into what he has learned from his career in the industry. Mike was initially appointed chief executive of Care UK in 2001 and during that time, Care UK has substantially grown its care home capacity and has developed into the largest provider of secondary and primary care services to the NHS. He will discuss how the market has evolved in that time; how it is evolving; and is it happening fast enough?

Mike Parish, Chair, Care UK

16:30 – 16:55

Lessons from 30 years in the Industry

Having founded Four Seasons Health Care in 1988, which grew from one home in Fife to become the UK’s largest operator with 400 sites, 20,000 beds and about 30,000 staff, serial entrepreneur Robert Kilgour, CEO of Renaissance Care will discuss how investment in the care sector remains a priority, despite a growing list of costs in an industry where margins are being squeezed ever tighter.

Robert D. Kilgour, Executive Chairman, Renaissance Care

Facilitated by Fiona Phillips, journalist, broadcaster and television presenter