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Care and Support West 2023 ‘Systemwide Support for Adult Social Care’

All speaker information, resources, and live-stream videos can be found below and if you’re super keen, you can now register for next year’s 2024 Care and Support West Conference below:

Speakers Included:

• Jane Townson, (Care Home Association) Keynote with a national focus - download presentation

• Suzanne Westhead, Director of Adult Social Care (Bath & North East Somerset Council) Local commissioning & the need for appropriate community-based provision - download presentation

• Martin Ross, (Care South at Home), The day-to-day reality of the home care market

• James Sage, RWK Goodman, Legal considerations - download presentation

• Laurence Ross, (Healthier Together) - download presentation

• Mik Alban, (CSW) Recruitment, retention, apprenticeships & pay - download presentation

• Mike Bell, (BNSSG ICB) How the ICB system will support provider continuum of care

Care and Support West 2022 ‘Fixing (local) Social Care for 2030 and Beyond’

Hundreds of fellow care providers caught up at the Care & Support West annual conference 2022. We were joined by industry with expert speakers, discussion, and Q&A around the core theme: 'Fixing (Local) Social Care for 2030 and Beyond'. Download your copy of the Conference programme here.

Our speakers ranged from representatives from national and local government, to industry thought leaders and experts in social care. Our Care and Support West commercial partners also joined us, offering specialist insights into their services.

Speakers Included:

• Professor Martin Green OBE, Chief Executive, Care England

• Cllr Helen Holland, Bristol City Council Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care

• Stephen Beet, DASC Bristol City Council

• Mei-Ling Huang, RWK Goodman

• Jane Townson, CEO, Home Care Association

• Jeff Farrar, Chair Designate BNSSG ICB

• Debbie Ivanova, CQC

If you were unable to make it to this year’s conference, you can watch a recording via our YouTube channel below:

Care and Support West Conference 2021

Please find copies of the speaker slides, which are available for download on the links below:

• Neil Eastwood, CEO, Care Friends - ‘Finding and keeping care staff in the West of England: Best practice & new trends’

• Mary Lewis, Director of Nursing, Sirona Care & Health - ‘Reflection on Developing Partnerships’

• Sophie Coulthard, Judgement Index - ‘Building a culture of wellbeing’ (tbc)

• Vic Rayner, Executive Director, National Care Forum - ‘Making Care Count – Voice, Vision and Values’

• Thangam Debbonaire, Member of Parliament for Bristol West & Shadow Leader of the House of Commons (No slides, but talk available via our YouTube channel here.)

• Dame Carol Black, Government Advisor on Health at Work - ‘Creating Health and Wellbeing at Work’

• Cllr Asher Craig, Deputy Mayor, Communities, Equalities & Public Health - ‘COVID-19 and Race Inequality from the perspective of staff in the care sector’

• Rob Assall, Deputy Chief Inspector South West & London, CQC - ‘An update from CQC – our new strategy and what this means for regulation’

• Hugh Evans, Interim Exec Director, People Bristol - ‘Market Sustainability, Commissioning/Coproduction & Integrated Care’

If you were unable to make it to this year’s conference, you can watch both days live-stream replay via our YouTube channel:

The conference organisers gratefully acknowledge the generous support provided by the following: