Children & Families Special Interest Group

Friday July 1^st 2011

The Best Western, Ashling Hotel, Parkgate Street, Dublin 8

09.30   Registration

10.00    Opening Address - Oran Doyle & Paul McCarthy

10.15     Professor Sue White & Professor Dave Wastell

 "Reform in haste, repent at leisure: human factors and safer systems 

Child welfare and protection: designing safe systems for Ireland or importing the already punctured wheel" 

11.00    Coffee and tea Break

11.30     Professor Brid Featherstone "Why working with men, women and children matters: why is this so hard to grasp? The importance of engaging families and reflecting on practice to develop appropriate interventions, and why time and skill are so important "

12.15     Distribute "A Call for Change" document

12.30     Launch & Introduction to document - Sharon Shiels

13.15    Lunch

14.15     AGM of Special Interest Group

16.00    Close

Biographies:

Sue White is Professor of Social Work at the University of Birmingham and a member of the Munro Review of Child Protection, the Social Work Taskforce and the Social Work Reform Board. Her research with colleagues was central to uncovering the difficulties with the reforms introduced in England.

Professor Dave Wastell is a Professor of Information Systems at the University of Nottingham

Brid Featherstone is Professor of Social Work at NUI, Galway and worked for over thirty years in England practising and researching in the area of child protection

Bookings;  please email Danielle This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . On booking can you please specify if you are staying for the AGM.

 Members & Students @ €10.00 Non- Members @ €20.00.

Click on the links below to download copies of presentations;

Professor Brid Featherstone Presentation &  'Building confidence and trust in services for children'

Professor Sue White & Professor Dave Wastell