Programme
The event starts with registration between 9.30am and 10.30am and finishes at 4pm. To download a copy of the programme, click here.
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10.30am |
Welcome, Nita Clarke |
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10.40am |
Ministerial message, Ann Keen, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Health |
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11.00am |
The Macleod Report, Nita Clarke |
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11.30am |
Case study presentation: United Welsh Housing Association
David Williams, Partnership Manager and Gareth Hextor, Director of Financial and Corporate Services |
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12.00 noon |
Tea/coffee |
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12.20pm |
Workshop 1
The partnership fund project presentations |
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1.30pm |
Lunch |
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2.20pm |
Workshop 2
What is a model local partnership? |
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3.25pm |
Feedback from Workshop 2 and summing up, Nita Clarke |
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4.00pm |
Close |
Location
The venue for the event is the Thistle Hotel, Marble Arch, London. Click here to access the hotel's website for location details etc.
Presenters/speakers
Prof. Ann Keen, MP Under Secretary of State for Health and chair of the Social Partnership Forum
Nita Clarke, Director, IPA is chairing the event on behalf of the Social Partnership Forum.
Nita is the Director of the Involvement and Participation Association (IPA). She was vice-chair of the Macleod Review on employee engagement and continues to work with David Macleod and the Department for Business on implementing the report’s recommendations.
She was formerly the adviser on trade unions to Prime Minister Tony Blair, working as assistant political secretary in the Political Office at 10 Downing Street from January 2001 to June 2007. Her role included liaison with individual unions and the TUC, developing national policy in areas such as the two-tier workforce and work-life balance, supporting ministers by trouble-shooting in industrial disputes. Nita was a senior official with public services union UNISON from 1992 -2001. She is the author of the report The way forward: trade unions and the third sector, commissioned by ACEVO.
David Williams, Partnership Director and Gareth Hextor, Directro of Financial and Corporate Services, United Welsh Housing Association
United Welsh is a not-for-profit organisation providing housing and related services to people in South Wales. David and Gareth will discuss their experiences of partnership working and their People Engagement Model.
The partnership fund projects
Presentations of each of the successful partnership fund projects will be given at the event. A synopsis of each project is available here to download. Presentations will last approx. 20 minutes including time for questions and answers and delegates will have time to hear three separate presentations on the day. Following the event all of the presentations will be available via our partnership fund webpages.
Background
The partnership fund aims to encourage and develop partnership working at local employer level within the NHS. The fund is financed by Department of Health and has been developed in partnership through the Social Partnership Forum.
From almost fifty bids referred to a national panel the fund was awarded to eighteen partnership projects and this event is your opportunity to hear first hand the outcomes and learning from these.
In addition to hearing about the partnership fund projects the event will also feature speeches from a leading figure in partnership working and
Make a booking
You can still register your place at this event - please download a booking form here, complete and return by email to eventbookings@socialpartnershipforum.org
More information about the NHS partnership fund and the successful projects is available here.