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Conferences

Recasting the Future of Social Care Together: From existence to living

Debate held on 14 November 2008, London

Shaping Our Lives Chair, Peter Beresford, was a key speaker at this event which brought together lead policymakers and a wide range of service users to explore how to get the social care – and independent living for everyone in the future – that service users have been pioneering.

Social Policy Seminar with ‘Critical Social Policy’

5 June 2007, London

Report to be uploaded soon.


Inclusion: Welfare to Work Convention

June 2007, Birmingham

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Shaping Our Lives: Seminar on Social Work

with the General Social Care Council
28 February 2007, London

Report to be uploaded soon.


St Martin’s College, Carlisle

7 November 2006, Carlisle

St Martin’s College, based in Lancaster, Ambleside and Carlise, contacted Shaping Our Lives to ask for our help to run a conference about promoting service user involvement in social work education. We organised and ran five workshops about involving young people with experience of the care system, older people, people with learning difficulties, people from black and minority ethnic backgrounds and also one on student placements in service user-controlled organisations.


University of Nottingham, 2005

Report to be uploaded soon.


Guardian Live, October 2005

To see the Shaping Our Lives contribution, please click here for our presentation at Guardian Live.


Disability Studies Conference, 2003

To see the Shaping Our Lives contribution, please click here for our presentation to the Disability Studies Conference.

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