Interconnections
National Seminars for Service Development 2009
about children who
need ongoing multiple interventions and their families
These
affordable Seminars are designed to combine service development
discussions with opportunities for continuing professional development
(CPD) for multi-disciplinary practitioners and managers at all
levels. There are some free places for parents.
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Each
Seminar is facilitated by Peter Limbrick (except for Seminar 1
which has co-facilitators) and will be a mix of short presentations,
focused discussion (plenary and small group) and opportunities
for sharing good practice.
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The
Seminars are informed by Peter Limbrick’s extensive experience,
since 1995, in UK and Ireland of supporting councils, health trusts
and voluntary organisations in their development of integrated
services for children and families.
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Delegates
will be given Discussion Papers that can be used in their
agency, service or team for service-development discussions after
the Seminar.
If
you wish, these seminars can come to your own venue with a programme
tailored to your particular service development and CPD needs.
Contact
p.limbrick@virgin.net for costs.
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City
/ Date |
Venue |
Cost |
Subject* |
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1 |
Birmingham:
Thursday 19th March
10
a.m. to 3 p.m.
(Reception from 9.30) |
Postgraduate Centre, City Hospital, Birmingham,
B18
7QH. |
£95
+
VAT
per
person |
A
whole approach to babies and young children who have multiple
needs: pre-school and primary school. |
|
2 |
Birmingham:
Tuesday 28th April
10
a.m. to 3 p.m.
(Reception from 9.30) |
Postgraduate Centre, City Hospital, Birmingham,
B18
7QH. |
£95
+
VAT per person |
How to provide support that is genuinely needs led
and family centred. |
|
3 |
Bristol:
Tuesday 12th May
10
a.m. to 3 p.m.
(Reception from 9.30) |
Armada House, Telephone Avenue, Bristol,
BS1
4BQ. |
£95
+
VAT per person |
Early intervention and support for children with multiple/complex
needs and their families. |
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4 |
Birmingham:
Thursday 9th July
10
a.m. to 3 p.m.
(Reception from 9.30) |
Postgraduate Centre, City Hospital, Birmingham,
B18
7QH. |
£95
+
VAT per person |
Integrating education and therapy – How far should this
go? |
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5 |
London:
Thursday 1st October
10
a.m. to 3 p.m.
(Reception from 9.30) |
Friends Meeting House, Euston Road, London,
NW1 2BJ |
£110
+
VAT per person |
How to provide support that is genuinely needs led
and family centred. |
|
6 |
Wakefield:
Tuesday 17th November
10
a.m. to 3 p.m.
(Reception from 9.30) |
Cedar Court Hotel, Denby Dale Road, Wakefield,
WF4
3QZ. |
£95
+
VAT per person |
Early intervention and support for children with multiple/complex
needs and their families. |
|
7 |
London:
Thursday 26th November
10
a.m. to 3 p.m.
(Reception from 9.30) |
Friends Meeting House, Euston Road, London,
NW1
2BJ. |
£110
+
VAT per person |
Integrating education and therapy: Why we would do it? How
far can we take it? |
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*More
information appears below about discussion topics for each
Seminar |
The
Facilitator
Peter
Limbrick’s background includes senior management in special schools
and disability organisations, and establishing One Hundred Hours
in 1990 to develop and validate keyworker support for families
of neurologically impaired infants. Peter has a science degree
and is author of several books including
Early
Support for Children with Complex Needs: Team Around the Child
and the Multi-agency Keyworker,
Interconnections, 2004. Peter is editor of the Interconnections
Quarterly Journal (IQJ) and is Chair of the Handsel Trust.
Chrisine
Lenehan, Director, Council for Disabled Children, says in her
Foreword to Family-centred Support for Children with Disabilities
and Special Needs, (By Peter Limbrick, Interconnections, 2007)
“…There have
been some major steps forward in recent years particularly around
key working and early support. Peter Limbrick’s early work on
team around the child approaches transformed how we thought about
services and enabled the move from services which met the needs
of professionals to services which put parents and children at
the centre. The government’s Early Support Programme has subsequently
promoted and developed this…”
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Subject |
Discussion
topics |
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1 |
A
whole approach to babies and young children who have multiple
needs: pre-school and primary school.
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Morning: Peter
Limbrick on TAC
for babies and pre-school children
to include:
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Close
collaborative teamwork and parent empowerment
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A
more child-centred approach to multiple interventions
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Integrated
whole-child programmes and the Primary Interventionist |
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Afternoon: Dr.
Wendy Baker & István Szucs on Conductive Education
(CE) in a Birmingham
main stream Primary School
– using CE with children with physical disabilities and
children with autistic spectrum disorder.
Wendy is Director of Children’s Services at The Foundation
for Conductive Education.
István is Conductor in Charge at Gt. Barr Primary School. |
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2
and
5 |
How to provide support that is genuinely needs led
and family centred.
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What
does ‘family-centred’ mean in practice? Can it be just an
empty phrase? What sort of things are we likely to be doing
when we are being genuinely family centred? |
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Can
we be genuinely ‘needs-led’? How do we find out what the
needs are? What are the implications for service providers
in being directly led by the stated needs of families? Is
it possible? |
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The
TAC approach to needs-led and family-centred support, focusing
on both the child and the family, agreeing needs and offering
relevant support that fits their particular situation. |
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3
and
6 |
Early intervention and support for children with multiple/complex
needs and their families.
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What
are new families likely to need? What happens if those needs
are not met? Can our ‘help’ sometimes make things worse
for the family? |
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What
might the child need? How do we find out? Can traditional
interventions sometimes spoil the child’s chance of learning? |
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The
TAC approach to assessment and support in which there is
a collective effort to agree needs and provide relevant
and timely support to child and family. |
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4
and
7 |
Integrating education and therapy: Why we would do it and
how far we can take it?
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How
is ‘education’ different from ‘therapy’?
Some
problems in the discipline-specific approach to learning.
The
need to avoid over-loading children, families and practitioners. |
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Some
remedies: the ‘consultant’ model, the whole-child integrated
programme, the primary provider. The need for radical change. |
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The
TAC approach to assessment and support in pre-school education
and therapy – reducing the load on children, families and
practitioners. |
Each
delegate will receive a year’s free subscription to IQJ (Interconnections
Quarterly Journal) which usually costs £25 + VAT.
http://www.icwhatsnew.com/iqj/date.htm
To
book your place contact:
Peter
Limbrick
Interconnections
Tel/fax:
01497 831550
E-mail:
p.limbrick@virgin.net
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