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Friday 14 November:
10:00 - 17:15
The Hove Centre (Hove Town Hall)
Norton Road
Hove
10:00 Registration & Refreshments
11:00 Welcome, Cllr Dave Wilcox LGIU Chair
11.10 Opening plenary: Pride in Public Service People
Polly Toynbee, Guardian journalist
Richard Vize, Editor, Local Government Chronicle
Angela Mason, Director, Government's Women & Equality Unit
Cllr Jessica Crowe, Deputy Mayor Hackney
12:45 Lunch
13:00 Optional Focus Session, LGC Award for Councillor Development Initiative of the Year
14:00 Study Tour: ST1 Education
Study Tour: ST2 Economic Development
Study Tour: ST3 Arts & Culture
Workshop: W1a If this were my child
Workshop: W1b The future of housing
Workshop: W1c Promoting learning
15:15 Refreshments
15:45 Workshop: W2a Council pensions
Workshop: W2b Health Scrutiny
Workshop: W2c Community cohesion
17:15 Conference sessions end
Friday 14 November continued:
18:00 - 19:45
Brighton Museum
Royal Pavilion Gardens (Church Street entrance)
Brighton
18:00 Mayor's Reception
20:00 - 00:00
Royal Albion Hotel
35 Old Steine
Brighton
20:00 Annual Conference Dinner with speeches from:
Phil Hope MP, Local Government Minister
Simon Fanshawe, Radio 4 presenter, writer, broadcaster and Chair of Brighton & Hove Economic Partnership Followed by live jazz band
Saturday 15 November
09:30 - 13:00
The Hove Centre (Hove Town Hall)
Norton Road
Hove
09:30 Workshop: W3a The extended school
Workshop: W3b Tackling anti-social behaviour
Workshop: W3c Housing, health and poverty
Workshop: W3d Promoting public service
Workshop: W3e Public Interest Companies
Workshop: W3f Rethinking Rubbish
11:00 Refreshments
11:30 Closing plenary: Public Service Futures
Baroness Sally Hamwee, Liberal Democrat ODPM spokesperson in the Lords and Chair of the Greater London Assembly
Lucy de Groot, Executive Director, IDeA
Dennis Reed, Chief Executive, LGIU
13:00 Conference ends.
Followed by LGIU AGM for Management Committee Reps only
If you wish to attend the conference as a journalist please contact Kevin Morton, Press Officer,Local Government Information Unit, 22 Upper Woburn Place
London WC1H 0TB
Telephone: 020 7554 2858 (direct line)
07958 314846 (mobile)