The 3PB Family team are pleased to share the agenda for our full-day Care Conference chaired by Lucy Hendry KC.
Event Details
| Friday 21st Nov 2025 | |
| 8:45 am - 4:30 pm | |
| FREE | |
| The Harbour Hotel, 5 Maritime Walk, Southampton SO14 3QT |
We will be delighted to welcome our keynote speaker Lord Justice Baker. Other presentations will be made during the day by members of the 3PB family team. We are also pleased to be joined by independent social worker Amy Bartram as well as Dr Freda Gardner of Gardner Wildblood.
AGENDA
- Keynote address by Lord Justice Baker.
- Lord Justice Baker and Lucy Hendry KC will take part in a Q&A session focused on 1 or 2 main topics. We welcome your topic suggestions and questions so the session can reflect our attendees' interests. Click here to contribute.
- Emma Griffiths and Kara Cann will present ‘Sea change’? Post-Adoption Contact 12 months on from the PLWG.'
- Gemma Chapman will address 'Adoption and the extended family: what should the local authority be doing?'
- Amy Bartram, independent social worker, will be in conversation with Vanessa Meachin KC, focusing on ‘A Resolutions-Style Assessment – why, when and who?’
- Kellie Salter and Jane Withington will present a Public Law Case Update.
- Dr Freda Gardner will consider 'Fabricated and Induced Illness.'
Join us for the day, starting with a networking breakfast from 8:45am. The day will end at 4:30pm.
A number of Early Bird tickets priced £65 (+VAT) are still available for purchase.
Event Information
| Event Date | 21-11-2025 |
| Individual Price | Free |
| Location | South-east (exc London) |
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