London Advice Conference - 6 July 2011

“Looking to the Future: Meeting the Challenge”

The fourth London Advice Conference takes place on Wednesday 6 July with guest speaker Karen Buck, Labour MP Westminster North, Shadow Work and Pensions Minister. It’s free to attend (places limited to one person per agency currently) and will be at the offices of Clifford Chance in Canary Wharf.

There will be a series of 8 workshops including:

•  housing reform and welfare benefit reform
•  managing the client journey
•  using social media and I.T. for advice
•  engaging volunteers to maintain your advice service
•  Government proposals for Legal Aid
•  Charging for advice?
•  and a Funders panel with the following confirmed funders:

- Matthew Smerdon - Baring Foundation
- Jane Sterland - BLF London
- Bob Nightingale - London Legal Support Trust
- Bharat Mehta - Trust for London
- Jenny Field - City Bridge Trust.

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London Advice Conference 2011

Just to highlight the draft programme for this free conference is now available, should be attached to this post.

Please feel free to pass to colleagues and others who may be interested.

Thanks.

Just a reminder that this free conference is taking place next Wednesday, 6 July 2011.

Here’s the latest version of the free London Advice Conference programme, for next Wednesday, make sure your book your place soon.

There are keynote speakers, various interesting workshops, a funders panel as well as free lunch and networking opportunities.

London Advice Conference 2011

Hope to see some of you there!

Well, that felt like a very inspired day today at the London Advice Conference (#lac11 if you twitter at all), very good turnout, some fantastic speakers and workshops, lots of ideas and enthusiasm in terms of ways forward, and we even did some social media recording of what went on (thanks to Sound Delivery for your help with this).

Click the link below for a link so you can listen to some of our excellent participants from today, on the impacts on the independent advice sector in terms of issues around government policy making, welfare reform, legal aid and housing benefit changes in London.

Tony Travers, Director of LSE London, presents his vision of how the Advice sector will “Look to the Future”

Karen Buck, MP Westminster North and Shadow Work and Pensions Minister

Steve Hynes, Director of the Legal Action Group, the impact of government proposals on legal aid

Rachel Orr, Campaigns Manager for Shelter, discusses the impacts of Housing and Housing Benefit reforms on London

We will be sharing some views from many other delegates very shortly, so please have a listen to these as well. Enjoy!!!

Thanks very much to everyone involved today, I hope we get to do this again next year.

New blog post on Terry Stokes blog Telling the story of London’s advice sector digitally