Monday
June 21st, 2010
10 a.m. to 3.30 p.m. (Reception and refreshments from 9.30
a.m.)
Friends House
Euston Road
London
NW1 2BJ
A national
UK seminar by Interconnections. This seminar can be staged at your venue if you
wish. Costs will then be agreed by negotiation.
Some babies and pre-school children, because of ongoing
multiple needs, are supported by very many practitioners. Though everyone is
doing their best work, the result can be –
§
an infant
who is overwhelmed by just too many people and too many programmes
§
a family
that gradually sinks under the weight of appointments, assessments &
programmes
§
therapists
and teachers stretched too thinly – in an arena of cuts in budgets
The seminar, facilitated by Peter Limbrick, will
be a mix of presentations and group discussions. It will be relevant to
multi-disciplinary managers and practitioners who are stretching limited
resources to achieve effective child-centred early support for children with ‘complex’
needs.
PROGRAMME
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9.30
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Reception & refreshments
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10.00
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The TAC
System – keeping intervention as simple and straightforward as possible
A child’s
TAC will be presented as:
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a small, multi-disciplinary team
of just two, three or four people (parent + practitioners) who work in close
collaboration with the flexibility and authority to find creative solutions
to the challenges faced by child and family
§
a family-friendly team in which
practitioners and parents can work in genuine partnership with relationships
characterised by familiarity, empathy, trust and respect.
§
a deliberately small team that
avoids overloading the family and wasting practitioners’ time.
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11.15
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Break
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11.45
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How we
sometimes waste education and therapy resources with too many practitioners
offering a child too many separate interventions
This
session will focus on TAC as a genuinely child-centred approach and
§
will question the validity of
responding to ‘multiple disabilities’ with multiple practitioners
§
will question whether these
infants can realistically cope with multiple and separate teaching and
therapy programmes
§
will describe a whole-child
approach that can protect the child’s quality of life and give improved
opportunities for development and learning.
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1.00
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Vegetarian lunch
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1.45
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TAC –
the heart of a locality’s well organised, multi-agency, collective effort for
early support
This
session will discuss the need for strategic planning in each locality
that:
§
creates a seamless, integrated
pathway for children and families
§
makes space in which each TAC can
function effectively
§
has been designed with the help of
local parents
§
offers new families clear
information about how the locality’s early support avoids overloading
children and families
This
session will begin with small-group discussions on a set task and will have
refreshments available.
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3.30
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End of Seminar
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It is our intention to adhere to this programme but we reserve the
right to make necessary alterations
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Costs to include lunch:
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One
delegate: £130
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Four
delegates: £380 (£95 each)
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Two
delegates: £230 (£115 each)
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Five
delegates: £425 (£85 each)
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Three
delegates: £315 (£105 each)
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Extra
places at £85 each.
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There is a limited number of free places for
parents
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For a
booking form contact:
Interconnections
Tel/fax: 01497 831 550.
E-mail: p.limbrick@virgin.net
