About us
We provide neutral cross-cutting policy forums for learning, attracting delegates from Public, Private and Voluntary Sectors. The scope and depth of our thoroughly researched events means that they are genuinely cutting-edge, reflecting what you tell us you need to know about.
Our popular and up-to-date biannual events cover the crucial issues facing the public sector and include:
- Transformational Government, Absenteeism and Diversity for central government
- Safeguarding, NEETs, Early Intervention, Teenage Pregnancy for children’s services
- 14-19 Reform, School Inspections, Extended Schools and Children’s Centres for education
- Neighborhood Policing, Trafficking, Prostitution, Domestic Violence, Forensics and Violent Crime for the Police
- Regulation, Rent Arrears, Low Cost Homes and Tenant Engagement for social housing
- Older People’s Exclusion, Disability Equality, Workforce Reform for adult social care
- Neighbourhood Management, Contact Centres and Local Area Agreements for local government
- Regional events include Governing Wales, Governing Northern Ireland, Disability in Scotland, Worklessness in Wales, and Scottish Governance
We are event pioneers in many fields, and were the first to hold conferences around crucial, yet sensitive areas, of national policy, including Deaths in Police Care, NEETs, Children Missing Education, Bichard Implementation, Worklessness, Sexual Orientation in the Police, Knife Crime, Child Poverty, and Disabled Children, to name a few.
In 2007 and 2008, our diverse line up of keynote speakers included:
- Rt Hon Rhodri Morgan AM, First Minister for Wales
- Sir Gus O’Donnell KCB, Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service
- Ed Balls MP, Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families
- Barbara Follet MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department for Work and Pensions
- Andrew Davies AM, Minister for Finance and Public Services, Welsh Assembly Government
- George Black, Chief Executive, Glasgow City Council
- Steve Thomas, Chief Executive, Welsh Local Government Association
- Mike O' Brien QC MP, Minister of State for Work and Pensions, Department of Work and Pensions
- David Behan, Director General for Social Care, Department of Health
- Anne McGuire MP, Minister for Disabled People
- Sir Leigh Lewis KCB, Permanent Secretary, DWP
- Bruce Mann, Director, Civil Contingencies Secretariat, Cabinet Office
- Bruce Robinson, Permanent Secretary, Department of Finance and Personnel, Northern Ireland Government
- Sir Emyr Jones Parry, Chair, The All Wales Convention
- Sir Michael Bichard, Chair, The Bichard Inquiry
- Peter Neyroud, Chief Executive, National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA)
- Commander Simon Foy, Head of Metropolitan Police Performance Directorate, Met Police
- Tony Lake, Chief Constable, Lincolnshire Police and Chair, ACPO Forensic Portfolio
- Sir Norman Bettison, Chief Constable, West Yorkshire Police
- Sir Bert Massie CBE, Chair, Disability Rights, Commission (now commissioner CEHR)
- Sir David Varney, Non-executive Director Civil Service Steering Board and HM Treasury
- Sir Jeremy Beecham, Chair, Review of Local Service Delivery