Leaders of the two principal social worker (PSW) networks will address Community Care Live 2025, we can announce.
Representatives from the Adult Principal Social Worker (APSW) Network and the Principal Children and Families Social Worker (PCFSW) Network will speak on day one (7 October) of the two-day event.
Colleen Simon, a vice-chair of the APSW Network, will join two of the PCFSW Network's co-chairs, will discuss how they are working together to support change, nationally, regionally and in individual organisations, in relation to anti-racism, transitions to adulthood and supporting the workforce.
Who else is speaking at CC Live 2025?
They will join confirmed speakers on our seminar programme including:- Chief social workers Isabelle Trowler (children and families) and Sarah McClinton (adults);
- Jahnine Davis, the DfE’s national kinship care ambassador and expert on the safeguarding of black children;
- Tim Spencer-Lane, specialist adult social care, mental health and mental capacity lawyer and Community Care Inform legal editor;
- Anna Glinski, deputy director for knowledge and practice development at the Centre of expertise on child sexual abuse;
- Michael Preston-Shoot, emeritus professor of social work at the University of Bedfordshire and adult safeguarding expert;
- Alex Ruck Keene, barrister at 39 Essex Chambers and expert on the Mental Capacity Act 2005.
More about the event
Community Care Live 2025, which takes place at the Business Design Centre, London, is delivered with the support of our long-time event partner, Essex County Council.Besides the learning, you can also network and explore new opportunities in our exhibition, which includes social work employers, providers, publishers, learning organisations and workforce bodies.
Register now for your free place and we will see you at the event.
