Programme

Time	Programme
08:30 – 09:00	Registration & Exhibition
09:00 – 09:05	Welcome & Opening Remarks from the Chair
09:05 – 09:20	A Social Care System Fit for the Future Caroline Dinenage MP, Minister of State for Health (TBC)
09:20 – 09:45	Collaboration as the Key to Transformational Care Services 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
09:45 – 10:10	Quality Adult Social Care Services – Meeting the Needs of the Population • 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
10:10 – 10:40	The Way Forward for Social Care Building an integrated person-centered, co-ordinated care system. Embracing technology to ensure an individual-centered approach. Investing in building a stable workforce that is sustainable for the sector. Professor Martin Green, Chief Executive, Care England
10:40 – 11:10	Morning Refreshment Break and Exhibition
11:10 – 11:45	Panel Debate: Achieving Collaborative, Reliable and Person-Centered Systems of Social Care Why sector partners such as local government, the NHS and the provider sector must work together to ensure better social care provision for future generations? How should the commissioning and management of care services for older people by local government evolve to build a system fit for the future? Rosie Seymour, Programme Director, Better Care Fund Professor Martin Green, Chief Executive, Care England (proposed) Michael King, Local Government & Social Care Ombudsman (proposed) Charles Tallack, Assistant Director – Health & Social Care Sustainability Research Centre, Health Foundation Deborah Alsina MBE, Chief Executive, Independent Age More speakers to be confirmed shortly
11:45 – 12:10	Stepping Up National Action on Dementia Dementia as the vanguard of social care reform Ensuring the funding issue is not the overriding concern at the expense of care quality The role of charities in positively impacting the broader social care agenda Jeremy Hughes, Chief Executive Officer, Alzheimer’s Society
12:10 – 12:35	Fixing the Social Adult Care Funding Challenge How are 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
12:35 – 13:00	Adopting a Risk Based Approach to Care Management 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 Technoogies
13:00 – 14:00	Networking Lunch and Exhibition
14:00 – 14:25	Future Funding Options for Adult Social Care 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 reply on one-off funding injections? Sally Burlington, Head of Policy, Local Government Association
14:25 – 14:50	Diversity and Inclusion in the Care Sector – Meeting the Needs of All 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
14:50 – 15:25	Panel Debate: Keeping the Carers We Have and Attracting New Ones How will the sector attract and retain workers to the industry post-Brexit? Is the sector any closer to attracting and retaining a person-centered workforce through pay, working conditions and access to professional development? What more needs to be done to professionalise the sector? Skills development and assurance – what more needs to be done to invest in education and training? How can the way the sector operates change to make it work for its army of carers? Representative, Unison (proposed) Rehana Azam, National Secretary, GMB (proposed) More speakers to be confirmed.
15:25 – 15:55	Afternoon Refreshment Break and Exhibition
15:55 – 16:20	Debate: Innovation in Health and Social Care Settings What about the human aspect – can robots really improve better outcomes for older people? What are the barriers to utilising robots to the care sector? What do older people really need? What are the prospects that robots will drive improvements in patient safety? How can the sector embed a culture of innovation? What needs to be done to address poor standards in the sector? Speakers to be confirmed
16:20 – 16:50	Fireside Chats – The Future of Care Delivery What lessons can be learned from overseas regarding funding of care? How can failing homes be turned around? Developing sustainable care models for the future. Mike Parish, Chair, Care UK Lessons from Overseas What lessons can be learned from overseas regarding funding of care? Justin Hutchens, CEO, HC-One
16:50 – 17:00	Chair’s Closing Remarks

*Programme subject to change

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