FAMILY GROUP CONFERENCES

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Central Region FGC Network
FAMILY GROUP CONFERENCES THE NEXT LEVEL
Focusing thinking, planning future strategic
development and implementing Family Group
Conferencing in the context of Every Child Matters
A conference for decision-makers
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Seminars Strategic issues Mike
Doolan Mainstreaming the Kent experience The
Family perspective Financial impact the Suffolk
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National Badminton Centre
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FAMILY GROUP CONFERENCING THE NEXT STEP
The day
Chair Andy Couldrick, Head of Early Years and
Family Support, Oxfordshire CC will introduce the
sessions. Andy is currently implementing FGCs in
his third Local Authority.
Family group conferences place families and
children at the forefront of decision making and
planning for their children. Families are
empowered to take responsibility to find ways to
address difficulties they are facing. They use
resources offered from organisations along with
their own resources to make a plan to keep their
child safe. At the end of a conference the aim is
to have a plan that both the family and the
professionals involved with them can sign up to.
Keynote speaker Mike Doolan, Adjunct Senior
Fellow at the School of Social Work and Human
Services, University of Canterbury, New
Zealand. The national head of New Zealand social
services during the implementation of the
original FGC model and subsequently a leading
architect of FGC development in the UK. Mikes
presentation will address the strategic
challenges facing Local Authorities and their
partners.
Family Group Conferences -
They have been used successfully in Childrens
Social Care, education and Youth Offending
services, often avoiding accommodation, school
exclusions and custody.
Who we are
The Next Level
Six Local Authorities active in a regional
network and delivering or committed to
implementing Family Group Conferences
Seminars Strategic issues Mike
Doolan Mainstreaming the Kent experience The
Family perspective Financial impact the Suffolk
view
Conference Purposes
Give the opportunity to focus thinking, plan
future strategic development, and to look at how
to implement Family Group Conferencing in the
context of Every Child Matters
There will also be time for Local Authorities and
their partner agencies to combine to formulate
plans for the strategic development of Family
Group Conferences in their local area.
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• Registration
• Please complete, sign and return by fax, e-mail
  or post to the conference organiser
• Milton Keynes FGC Service
• Quaker Centre
• 1 Oakley Gardens
• Downhead park
• Milton Keynes
• MK15 9BH
• Tel [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• familygroupconferenceservice_at_milton-keynes.gov.uk

Family Group Conferences -
DELEGATES DETAILS
Payment 95.00 per person
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