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Event Name: Working it out: Aberdeen seminar
Helping to shape the future of the children's sector workforce - qualifications and professional development: opportunities for new partnerships

Venue: University of Aberdeen, McRobert Building, Room 208
Date: Wednesday 4 February 2009
Duration:One day

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Time Description
0915 - 0950

Registration and refreshments

0950 - 1000 Introduction from the Chair
Dr Bronwen Cohen, Chief Executive, Children in Scotland
1000 - 1010 Welcome
Professor Duncan Rice, Principal of the University of Aberdeen
1010 - 1025

Reform of Scottish Children's Sector Workforce

Ian Davidson, Workforce Development Team Leader, Children, Young People and Social Care Division, Scottish Government

1025 - 1030 Questions
1030 - 1100

Employer and provider perspective
Sue Bruce, CEO, Aberdeen City Council

Bruce Robertson, Director of Education, Learning and Leisure, Aberdeenshire Council

Myra Pearson, Head of School of Education, University of Aberdeen

1100 - 1115 Tea/coffee
1115 - 12 noon

Conversation 1

Facilitated discussion in breakout groups

12 noon - 1230 Feedback and panel discussion
1230 - 1315 Lunch
1315 - 1345

A Norwegian Perspective: presentation and questions

Ann Goeril Hugaas, Bodo University, Norway

1345 - 1415

Perspective on Workforce Education

Norma Hart, Catriona McDonald and Sheila Nutkins, University of Aberdeen

1415 - 1500

Conversation 2: Taking the agenda forward

Facilitated discussion in breakout groups

1500 - 1520

Feedback and panel discussion

1520 - 1530

Chair's concluding remarks

Dr Bronwen Cohen, Chief Executive, Children in Scotland


 

 
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