Safeguarding Children – Getting it right across the NHS

21st October 2009, Friend’s House, London

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Full Programme

0830 - 0920

Registration, Coffee & Exhibition
0920 - 0930

Opening Remarks
0930 - 1000

Lessons and imperatives – what the NHS should be learning from Baby P

Sue Eardley, Head of Children’s Strategy and Safeguarding Children, Care Quality Commission
1000 - 1030

Child protection challenges facing healthcare professionals –
the road to improved safeguarding

Professor Terence Stephenson, President of the Royal College of Paediatrics & Child Health
1030 - 1100

Overcoming the workforce challenge –
from poisoned chalice to purposeful vocation

Jane Appleby, Lead for Children & Safeguarding, NHS East Midlands
1100 - 1115

Questions
1115 - 1145

Morning Coffee
1145 - 1215

Current legislation and future needs –
understanding the frameworks and policies designed to protect children

Sarah Connelly, National Safeguarding Delivery Unit, Department for Children, Schools and Families
1215 - 1245

When is it right to remove a child and what is the process?

Caroline Little, Co-Chair of the Association of Lawyers for Children,
a highly experienced child care solicitor
1245 - 1300

Questions
1300 - 1345

Lunch
1345 - 1430

Ensuring safeguarding is at the heart of all activity

  • Developing active governance and proactive behaviour through a healthcare team
  • What would effective leadership look like in a safeguarding lead?
Dr Sara Watkin, Consultant Paediatrician, Medical Director & Lead Consultant in Clinical Governance

Andrew Vincent, Lead Consultant for Healthcare Leadership, Medicology Ltd
1430 - 1500

The role of the Integrated Children's System in protecting children

Ms Denise Lawes, Lead for Social Work Practice, ICS Implementation Team,
Wandsworth Local Authority Borough
1500 - 1515

Questions
1515 - 1530

Afternoon Tea
1530 - 1600

Healthcare reforms - what are the opportunities for & threats to child protection
as paediatrics moves into the community?

Dr Owen Hanmer, Consultant Paediatrician, Barts & the London NHS Trust and Tower Hamlets PCT, Designated Doctor for Safeguarding and Lead Clinician for Specialist Children's Services, THPCT
1600 - 1640

What does sound safeguarding & protection look like at a Trust level?

Dr Deborah McInerny, Lead for Safeguarding Children, Non-Executive Director, Scarborough and North East Yorkshire Healthcare NHS Trust and Former Associate Postgraduate Dean and Medical Policy Advisor for the Department of Health

Teresa Fenech, Director of Nursing, Scarborough and North East Yorkshire Healthcare NHS Trust
1640 - 1710

Expectations on safeguarding children – the Strategic Health Authority Viewpoint

Briony Ladbury, Lead for Safeguarding Children, NHS London
1710 - 1725

Questions
1725

Meeting Close

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