Workshop 1: Being Counted
24 October, Conference Suite, Level 3, The Lighthouse, Mitchell Lane, Glasgow
Key questions:
1. How many looked after children are disabled and what are their characteristics?
2. How are looked after disabled children theoretically constructed across disciplines?
3. What are the opportunities and barriers to establishing accurate prevalence figures?
Speakers:
Dr Claire Baker, Senior Policy Manager, Catch 22’s National Care Advisory Service
Professor Nicholas Watson, Strathclyde Centre for Disability Research, University of Glasgow
Dr Berni Kelly, Lecturer in Social Work, Queens University, Belfast
Dr Sandra Dowling, Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Queens University, Belfast
Sharon Glen, Senior Social Researcher, Scottish Government
Charlie Hogg, Statistician and Policy Officer, Scottish Government
Programme:
09.00 – 10.00: Registration
10.00 – 10.45: Getting it Right for Disabled Looked After Children - Overview Dr Graham Connelly, CELCIS, University of Strathclyde; The Challenge of Counting and Defining Disabled Children in Care, Dr Claire Baker
10.45 – 11.15: Theorising Disability and its Implications for Looked After Disabled Children, Professor Nicholas Watson
11.15 - 12:00: Discussion Groups - Sharing Experience
12:00 – 1:00: Lunch Break
1:00 – 1:30: Researching the Lives of Disabled Children who are Looked After in Northern Ireland: Methodological Challenges and Processes, Dr Berni Kelly / Dr Sandra Dowling
1:30 – 2:15: The Prevalence of Disability among Looked After Children in Scotland: What we know, what we don’t know and what we need to find out Sharon Glen / Charlie Hogg
2:15 – 2:45: Break
2:45 – 3.30: Discussion Groups - Identifying Actions
3:30 – 4.00: Review of the Day, Dr Vicki Welch, CELCIS, University of Strathclyde
Download the presentations:
Overview: Getting it Right for Disabled Looked After Children - Dr Graham Connelly
The Challenge of Counting and Defining Disabled Children in Care - Dr Claire Baker
Theorising Disability and its Implications for Looked After Disabled Children - Professor Nicholas Watson
Researching the Lives of Disabled Children who are Looked After in Northern Ireland - Dr Berni Kelly and Dr Sandra Dowling
The Prevalence of Disability among Looked After Children in Scotland - Sharon Glen and Charlie Hogg
Workshop 2: Being Heard
5th December at the Orangebox Gallery, the Lighthouse.
Working with Active Enquiry, this workshop uses forum theatre to explore what matters to looked after disabled children. This is an innovative opportunity to engage creatively with issues that children and young people identify as being important to them.
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Workshop 3: Being Included
Wednesday 6 February 2013
The Lighthouse, 11 Mitchell Lane, Glasgow G1 3NU
PROGRAMME
9.30am - 10.00am:
Registration
10.00am - 10.15am:
Welcome to Being Included: Overview of the morning
Kirsten Stalker, Professor of Disability Studies, Applied Social Science, University of Strathclyde
10.15am - 11.35am:
Setting the Scene: Decision making and communicative rights of looked after disabled children
Zoe Picton-Howell (PhD student, Edinburgh University and qualified solicitor)
Including looked after disabled children with little or no speech
Professor Bryony Beresford, Social Policy Research Unit, University of York
11.35am - 12.30pm:
Discussion Groups
12.30pm - 1.30pm:
Lunch (and DVD playing, Viewing Platform, Level 6)
1.30pm - 2.10pm
How are disabled children and young people involved in child protection services, processes and practices?
Tonje Gundersen, Researcher, NOVA Research Institute, Oslo
2.10pm - 2.50pm
How are disabled care leavers involved in transition processes and practices?
Dr Parvaneh Rabiee, Social Policy Research Unit, University of York
2.50pm - 3.00pm
Grab a cup of tea or coffee and take into ....
3.00pm - 3.40pm
Discussion Groups
3.40pm - 4.00pm
Review of the Day
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Workshop 4: Being Valued
The fourth and final workshop in the series will take place on Wednesday 17 April 2013 in the Collins Gallery, University of Strathclyde, 22 Richmond Street, Glasgow G1 1XQ www.strath.ac.uk/maps/collinsbuilding/ If you are interested in attending, please click on the dates on the right hand side of the page and complete the online form.
Download the programme here
Download the presentations
Seminar 4 Overview - Joanne McMeeking, CELCIS
Care Less Lives - Prof Mike Stein, University of York
Children's rights for all - Prof Jan Siska, Inclusion Europe
Children's rights to advocacy - Anita Franklin, Coventry University