2009 Press Releases
21.10.2009
“Keeping Children Safe: Critical Times, Critical Issues: is the title of a conference taking place at UCC on Friday next, October 23rd 2009.
This conference is a partnership effort involving the Social Work Development Unit, UCC, the Irish Association of Social Workers, Southern Branch and the Health Service Executive (HSE South), very welcome financial support from the Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs and the Children Acts Advisory Board (CAAB).
Keynote speakers include:
- The Hon Mrs Justice Catherine McGuinness, President of the Law Reform Commission and former Justice of the Supreme Court.
- Mr Peter Kieran, Regional Specialist Child and Family Services, HSE South.
- Mr Fergus Finlay, CEO, Barnardos.
- Professor Harry Ferguson, Professor of Social Work, University of Nottingham.
- Ian Elliott, CEO, National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church, and
- Mr Carl O’Brien, Social Affairs Correspondent, The Irish Times
The speakers are drawn from the judiciary, the statutory services, the voluntary sector, academia and the fourth estate and their perspectives should reflect back to us as a society, and as a profession, how we have responded to keeping safe the most vulnerable of our citizens.
For details of the conference visit: http://swconf.ucc.ie
Photographed at the conference were: Kenneth Burns, College Lecturer, Social Work Development Unit, UCC and Mr Fergus Finlay, CEO, Barnardos, one of the keynote speakers.
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