2009 Press Releases

Biennial Child Protection and Welfare Social Work Conference
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 is the second of what is hoped will be an ongoing series of conferences highlighting the changes that have occurred in Irish society that affect children and families, which poses a challenge to the social work profession both in how it responds to those changes, but also on how it has developed as a profession. The first conference was titled “Child Protection and Welfare Social Work: A Changing Profession in a Changing Ireland”. 
 
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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