Family: ChildrenConference 2019

@parklaneplowden#PLPFamilyConf

Full Day Delegate

£75.00+VAT

Registration: 10:00am – 10:15amConference: 10am – 4:00pm

Lunch: 1pm – 2pmDrinks: 4:00pm onwards

To book your place, please email hannah.townsend@parklaneplowden.co.uk

20th September 2019

Venue: The Principal HotelStation Rd, York

YO24 1AA(Full day conference)

ConferenceSchedule

10:30am – 10.40am Joanne Astbury

Welcome Introduction

10:15am – 10:30am Registration & Breakfast

10.40am – 11.15am Stuart Brown QC

‘The Mental Health Act; Behind Closed Doors’Synopsis: For 45 years Stuart was a member of Parklane Plowden specialising in personal injury and clinical negligence. For nearly 30 yearshe sat as a Recorder in the Crown Court and now continues to chair Mental Health Tribunals. He will seekto open up the functioning of the Mental Health Act with particular reference to mothers and families.

Conference Schedule

11.15am – 11.45am Peter Hinchcliffe-HumeAMHP and Social Worker ‘Working with families within a Local Authority Community Mental Health Social Work Team’

Synopsis: How we engage with families where one or more member is diagnosed with a mental disorder and how capacity and choice influence decision making.

11.45am – 12pm Coffee Break

Conference Schedule

12.00pm – 12:30pm Anne FoxClinks

Supporting those serving the hidden sentence-needs, evidence, good practice and next steps.Synopsis: Anne Fox was deputy chair of the Farmer review of “The Importance of Strengthening Prisoners’ Family Ties to Prevent Reoffending and Reduce Intergenerational Crime”. She will talk to the needs of families, the support on offer, good practice examples, the review and progress on its implementation.

12:30pm – 1pm Diane Curry OBE CEO of Partners of Prisoners

Prisoners’ families are the “golden thread: Synopsis: Diane will discuss the importance of ensuring prisoners’ children and their families are not just seen as an addendum to the prisoners’ criminal justice journey but are seen as families that may have additional situations of their own to deal with.

Conference Schedule

1pm – 2pm Lunch

2pm – 2.45pmSara Anning & Kate Clarkson

Breakout Session 01From Pregnancy to Adoption

Sara and Kate will look at some tricky and interesting issues in the context of recent case law and research on topics such as; Information sharing with birth family, assessing family members, sibling relationships and contact post placement and adoption.

Synopsis:

2pm – 2.45pmJulia Nelson & Giorgia Sessi

Breakout Session 02Relocation, Relocation, Relocation – The Ins and Outs

A full overview of the legal principals, useful case law and hints and tips in internal and external relocation cases.Synopsis:

2.45pm – 3.15pm Coffee break

3.15pm – 4pmJohn Jackson & Charlotte Wilce

Breakout Session 03Fact Finding in Public & Private Law - different perspective, similar outcomes.

3.15pm – 4pmDaniel Pitt & Gemma Meredith Davies

Breakout Session 04“The Family Procedure Rules - are you maximising your knowledge?”

Synopsis: Allocation, PD12J, Rule 16.4 Guardians, Cost Orders, Bundles and much more!

Conference Schedule

4pm onwards Closing remarks followed by drinks reception

A pdf of the handouts for the full day conference will be avaiable a month before the conference online at www.parklaneplowden.co.uk.

All confirmed delegates will receive a link and password to access all the notes prior to the 20th September 2019.