January 31, February 1 and February 2
Our joint virtual conference with Contact has now been finalised
The details and booking links can be found below:
Tuesday 31 January
10am – 10.30am Introduction to the virtual conference
Join your conference hosts Tina Emery and Mrunal Sisodia from the NNPCF and Carolyn Deveney from Contact as they introduce this year’s joint NNPCF and Contact conference.
They will provide an overview the presentations, workshops and coproduction opportunities over the next few days and provide a lead into the face to face conference in Bristol on the 28 February
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88112873094
11am – 12.30pm Coming together on inclusion
A chance to get together with peers to share what works and what might challenge us when it comes to Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). This session focuses on interactive discussion, space to engage, challenging our own biases, understanding who is around us, and finding our ‘blind spots’.
Contact is offering all forums EDI training this year as part of the core support offer at the DfE’s request. We hope that by the end of the year all forums will have participated in the training.
Numbers for this session will be restricted, however, the session will be run another five times during the next few months.
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82239692261
1pm – 2pm Planning the recovery in children’s community services
The NNPCF has heard throughout the year of the challenges faced by families accessing community based services including SALT, ASD / ADHD services and paediatricians in the wake of the covid 19 pandemic.
NHS England has created a new recovery team to address these issues around children’s services who have agreed to speak to NNPCF membership about what NHS data is telling them and the steps they are exploring to tackle the problems.
There will also be an opportunity to coproduce the latest thinking on what the model for recovery might look like.
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86311272683
7pm -8pm NNPCF AGM
Join the NNPCF steering group to help coproduce the business plan for the coming year and shape our longer term strategy.
This session will include:
- Review the first six months of our operation as a Community Interest Company from October 2021 to March 2022
- take a look at what has happened in the world of SEND since April 2022 and put it into the broader context of political turmoil, cost of living and the NHS.
- coproduce our priorities for the coming year 2023-24 that will form the basis of our business plan and longer term strategy.
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82863344182
Wednesday 1 February
10.30am – 11.30am IPSEA SEND law
IPSEA, the SEND legal support charity, will lead a session that outlines the major pieces of legislation that protect children and young people with SEND including the Children and Families Act, Equalities Act, Chronically Sick and Disabled persons Act. They will cover the tools that families (and forums) have at their disposal to seek redress if they have concerns.
IPSEA will also cover the services and support that they offer and how forums can seek further help and training.
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84618605173
1pm 2.30 pm Delivering Better Value for SEND (DBVS)
This interactive session will provide an opportunity for parents and carers to understand the DBV programme, ask questions, and contribute to how it is set up for success. We will explore:
- What the DBV in SEND programme is and how it sits alongside other DfE activities
- The progress made and findings to date
- How to best connect parent-carers into the work of the programme
See the following link to the local authorities participating in DBV – https://nnpcf.org.uk/2022/10/19/dfe-update-delivering-better-value-for-send-and-safety-valve/
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87686199480
Thursday 2 February
10am – 11.00 am Developing the Parent Carer Forum handbook with Contact
Last year, Contact asked what forums wanted in the new forum handbook – In this session they will share the survey results and discuss how to take things forward to develop a handbook that works for all parent carer forums
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84457866707
Booking is open for our face to face conference in Bristol.