London Advice Conference: 'Share and Inspire' 2012
5th London Advice Conference: ‘Share and Inspire’ : Resources, audio-recordings and video footage.
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The London Advice Conference: ‘Share and Inspire’ held on the 3rd July 2012 at Clifford Chance, was the fifth Conference organised by the London Advice Executive (LAE) - AdviceUK, Citizens Advice, Lasa and Law Centres Network.
The Conference brought together over 115 delegates including frontline advisers, centre managers and experts of the advice sector in London.
Keynote speakers included:
Andrew Slaughter, MP for Hammersmith and Shadow Justice Minister.
For a short interview listen here.
Steve Hynes, Director of the Legal Action Group (LAG)
LAG is a national charity that promotes access to justice and undertakes policy research on access to justice issues particularly the funding, quality and availability of legal services for the public.
For a short interview listen here.
The Conference was structured around eight facilitated workshops and presentations to allow all
participants to enter into practical discussions.
Presentations and training materials of some workshops are given below:
- Commissioning for value: The Portsmouth experience of using a Systems Thinking approach, by Simon Johnson from AdviceUK
- Post LASPO by Ann Lewis and Adam Griffith from Advice Services Alliance
- Debtology and “My money steps” by Asim Ilyas form Bristol Debt Advice & Refat Naz Dhar from Money AdviceTrust
- Welfare Benefits update by Ros White from Lasa
Welfare Benefits update Slideshow
- Exploring ways to Protect Services and Expertise with less resources by Ruth Hayes from Islington Law Centre and Noeleen Adams from Law Centres Network
How to protect services and expertise with less resources Slideshow
- Using Social Policy to Campaign for Change by Catherine Dempsey & Sophie Hostick-Boakye from Hackney Citizens Advice Bureau & Holly Padfield Paine from Law Centres Network
Using Social Policy to Campaign for change Slideshow & Using Social Policy to Campaign for Change Slideshow 2
- Discrimination, what happens now? by Flora Williams from Law Centres Network
- A website is not enough, share and inspire! by Patrick Torsney from Ask and Proper LTD
A website is not Enough Slideshow
For the final session Hilary Norman – Deputy Director, Office for Civil Society, Cabinet Office, addressed the conference on Government plans for the advice sector. This was followed by an expert panel chaired by Liz Barclay -Broadcaster and writer- and included the following :
Bharat Mehta OBE – Chief Executive, Trust for London
Lord Bach – Former Shadow Justice Minister, House of Lords
Adam Sampson- Legal Ombudsman
Video footage of the experts panel can be found here.
A list of audio recordings of some of our delegates, presenters and keynote speakers can be found here.
Our blog of the event can be found here.
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