Wednesday, 18 November 2009

FakeCharity and Quango Festival

If you'd like the opportunity to see the following speakers:

Martin Narey, Chief Executive, Barnardo's
Ivana La Valle, Director of Research, Evidence and Evaluation, National Children's Bureau
Yvonne Roberts, Senior Associate, the Young Foundation
Simon Antrobus, Chief Executive, Addaction
Debbie Scott, Chief Executive, Tomorrow's People
Kathy Evans, Director of Policy, Children England
Liz Railton CBE, Director of National Programmes, Serco Education and Children's Services
Cllr Brian Connell, Cabinet Member for Economic Development and Family Policy, Westminister City Council
Hugh Thornbery, Strategic Director of Children's Services England North, Action for Children Lisa Harker, Co-Director, ippr (Chair)


... and to rub shoulders with these sorts of people:

Regeneration officers
Senior management: heads and directors of services
Social services: adult, children, education, family and mental health services
Voluntary sector organisations involved in the whole family agenda - children’s charities, homeless and substance misuse fields
Parenting and family support organisations
Youth Justice Board and Youth Offending Teams
Drug and alcohol support services
Probation and ex-offender officers and managers
Children’s centre practitioners
Civil servants and policymakers
Clinical psychologists
Connexions partnerships
Primary Care Trust / Mental Health Trust representatives
Regional Development Agencies
Trades unions
Education sector
Employment service providers
Academics and think tanks
Adult learning and skills providers
Media
,

... then sign up to this shindig hosted by the Institute For Public Policy Research. Don't forget to take some plastic cutlery with you to prevent serious injury should you be overcome by the urge to stab someone (or indeed to stab yourself).

6 comments:

JuliaM said...

*prays for tornado or earthquake*

James Higham said...

Liz Railton sounds pretty impressive in her role.


Not.

Mark Wadsworth said...

JM, it's like the riddle "If a tree falls over in an forest and nobody hears it, does it make a sound?". In this case "If there were an earthquake under the building and all these people fell into the hole, would anybody notice?"

JH, Liz R probably earns twice as much as you or me for doing practically no work whatsoever, so don't knock it until you've tried it. She runs a fake private company, which is like a fake charity, but worse.

AntiCitizenOne said...

Plastic cutlery?

I'd have thought a dynamite suicide vest would be more useful (for your descendants).

Anonymous said...

"Cllr Brian Connell, Cabinet Member for Economic Development and Family Policy, Westminister City Council"??? What the heck is that then?

Westmninster Council has 49Conservative councillors, and 11Labour. I am getting a horrible sinking feeling about our future...

banned said...

Supported rate: voluntary organisations, trade unions, Friends of ippr £150
Reduced rate: Local Authorities, public sector bodies, Central Government departments and agencies, Non-Departmental Public Bodies £200
Full rate: Commercial sector £275

Why so ? apart from 'media', the private sector does not appear on the guest list anyway.