Strategic Seminar – Leading on Health for Children and Young People

‘Leading on Health for Children and Young People’: A strategic seminar for DCSs who have participated in the DCS Leadership Programme.

Thursday 22nd March (4.00pm) – Friday 23rd March (2.00pm) at the National College in Nottingham.

You are invited to join the latest in the series of strategic seminars that the VSC is providing for alumni of the DCS leadership programme*.  At the last seminar, on ‘New Business Models Part 2′, a number of you requested that a similar event should be arranged with a focus on the implications for DCSs of the changes taking place in the NHS.

The keynote for the seminar will be provided by Bill McCarthy, Managing Director for the NHS Commissioning Board. Bill has spent most of his career in the health service, but was recently the Chief Executive of the City of York council, and understands both the health service and local government from the inside.

Although the seminar will rely heavily on the experience of the participating DCSs, other sessions will be led by Anthony May (DCS in Nottinghamshire) who is co-ordinating a learning set for the DH on the early experience of Health and Wellbeing Boards, and Duncan Clark (DCS in Kingston) who has worked at a senior level within a PCT, as well as in children’s services.

The purpose of the seminar will be to share emerging practice in terms of commissioning, public health and the operation of the health and wellbeing boards, and to explore the distinctive features of the kind of leadership required by the new agenda for health.

All of the costs of the seminar, including overnight accommodation, will be met by the VSC through the DCS leadership programme. 25 places are available, and will be allocated strictly in order of application. If you wish to attend, please email Kirsty Foster-Jennings at DCSleadership@virtualstaffcollege.co.uk