PROGRAMME

Arrival + Drinks Reception: 6.30pm

Welcome: 7.00pm

Dinner: 7.20pm

Silent Auction + Speeches: 9.00pm (more details to follow)

Close: 9.30pm

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Many thanks to our Drinks Reception Sponsor, OM Interactive!

We were pleased to welcome our guest speaker for the evening – Des Kelly OBE, Chair, Centre for Policy on Ageing! 

Des Kelly is Chair of the Centre for Policy on Ageing, and was previously Executive Director of the National Care Forum – a post he held for 13 years. Between 1998 and 2003 he was Partnerships Director with BUPA Care Homes. He is currently working as the Care Provider Alliance Planning Lead on EU Exit.

He was co-author of Creative Homes: how the arts can contribute to quality of life in residential care, published in 2011. Des was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2007 for services to social care. Recent roles: Demos review of residential care; chair of the Advisory Group of the ‘My Home Life’; member of the CQC Market Oversight advisory group and The King’s Fund/Nuffield Trust External Project Reference Group on Sustainable Social Care and member of the Expert Panel on the future of Adult Care and Support in Northern Ireland.

Des is a trustee of Greensleeves Care, the Relatives & Residents Association and the Residential Forum.

To find out more about our daytime conference on 24th September, Creative Arts and Dementia: Developing Best Practice, please click here