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The conference committee welcome you to the 9th National Child Protection and Welfare Social Work Conference, which just happens to coincide with the Jazz weekend in October. For SWCONF23, we have an amazing lineup of keynotes and contributors which will make this a strong CPD and community-building event. Find out more about the conference committee. Follow us @SWCONFUCC on Twitter.

Theme: Revitalising child protection and welfare social work: innovations, hope and community

Friday 22nd October 2021, 9am-5pm (Irish time, virtual event). Click to download the SWCONF21 conference poster

Keynotes and contributors

Click on the speaker's names to visit the keynotes' and contributors' bios and click on their Twitter handles to visit their Twitter pages.
1. Professor Jill Duerr Berrick, UC Berkley, USA. Twitter: @jdberrick
2. Professor Anna Gupta, Royal Holloway, University of London. Twitter: @AnnaGupta2
3. Gerard Brophy, Chief Social Worker, Tusla, Child and Family Agency. Twitter: @BrophyGer
4. Dr Helen Beckett, Director Safer Young Lives Research Centre, University of Bedfordshire. Twitter: @Helenlbeckett
5. Claire McGettrick, CLANN project / Co-founder Adoption Rights Alliance / JFM Research / IRC scholar, School of Sociology, University College Dublin, Member of IASW Board of Directors. Twitter: @cmcgettrick
6. Professor Conor O'Mahony, School of Law and Special Rapporteur on Child Protection. Twitter: @ConorUCCLaw
7. Harry Venning, writer and cartoonist. Twitter: @harrymvenning
8. Sinead Quinlan, Stand up comedian, The Den (RTÉ) and MSW graduate, UCC. Twitter: @SineadQuinlan_
9. 30+ parallel session speakers

Terms and conditions

• SWCONF21 is a fully online conference.
• Registration is online and payment is by credit card only. It is not possible for us to invoice your employer.
• A condition of registration is that refunds are not possible. However, name substitutions are possible up until the 15th of October 2021. Send your request to conferenceucc@ucc.ie.
• All registration enquiries to conferenceucc@ucc.ie.
• Further conditions on the conference registration payment page.

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