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9.00: Registration and Coffee

9.50: Welcome and Introduction

Martin Stevens, Chair SSRG

10.00: What Might Good Adult Social Care Look Like in Times of Austerity?

John Bolton, Institute of Public Care, Oxford Brookes University

10.40: Big Data: It’s Role, Implications for Data Sharing and the Human Angle

Stephen Curtis, Centre of Excellence for Information Sharing

11.15: Break

11.45: Concurrent Sessions:

(a) Integrated Information: Experience of its Uses and Challenges

Michele Chew, Derbyshire CC and Matt Williams, Leicestershire County Council

(b) An Agenda for a Conversation: How Can NICE Guidelines Help Improve Person-Centred Integrated Working?

Carolyn Denne, NICE Collaborating Centre for Social Care, SCIE

(c) Research Governance – Updating the Policy Framework and Social Care Research

Amanda Hunn, Health Research Authority

12.45: Lunch and SSRG AGM

2.00: Concurrent Sessions:

(a) Sharing and Comparing Knowledge across Agencies and Regions

Gordon Smith and Stephen Kerr, Health and Social Care Benchmarking Network

(b) Meaningful and Measurable – The Critical Link Between Information and Practice

Emma Miller, University of Strathclyde and Karen Barrie, Edinburgh University

(c) Driving Forward Research and Evidence for Social Work: Reflections from Northern Ireland on the Development of a Social Work Research and Continuous Improvement Strategy 2015-2020

Anne McGlade and David Bickerstaff, Health and Social Care Board

3.00: Break

3.30: Research Impact: Tales of the Unexpected

Martin Knapp, NIHR School for Social Care Research

4.15: Closing Remarks

5.00: Networking Session: Details to be sent with confirmation of booking and posted to the SSRG website