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Programme - Day 4
Sunday 11th July 2010

09:00 Registration, refreshments and exhibition

Session Nine:
Themed Workshops (09:00 – 10:30)

We have received abstract submissions from all those concerned with the design and delivery of services for carers from government, charity and academic programmes, third sector providers and advocacy groups, private companies and educational institutions from the both the UK and internationally.

More information will follow shortly

Workshops will be organised into the following themes:

  1. Design, Technology and the Built Environment
  2. Caring and Employment Issues
  3. Funding, Financial and Legal Support
  4. Health, Social Care and Well-being

10:30 Refreshment break, networking and exhibition

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE WORKSHOPS AGENDA FOR THIS SESSION

11.00 Session Ten:
Closing plenary

11:00 Welcome from session chair
  David Brindle
  Public Service Editor, The Guardian
   
11:10 Facing the global challenge of care
  Ben Page, Chief Executive, Ipsos Mori
   
11:30 Social sustainability: contemporary technologies and managing care
  Professor Heinz Wolff
  Emeritus Professor of Bioengineering at Brunel University
   
11:50 New frontiers in caring: 2010 and beyond
  Imelda Redmond CBE
  Chief Eexcutive, Carers UK
   
12:10 Questions and discussion
   
12.30 Packed lunch
   
13:30 Close of conference


 

Hosted by

Carers UKLeed University

Co-sponsored by:

Intel

Technology Stream Sponsor

Technology Strategy Board

Health, Social Care and Well-Being Services Sponsor

Carers Direct

Supported by

Yorkshire Forward