Kent & Medway Registered Manager Conference - Reflection
It was good to see so many managers at our 15th registered manager conference on 18th September. With so many on-line meetings these days, it’s always nice to see people face to face and enjoy a conversation over coffee or lunch.
Speakers included Kent CC, Skills for Care, The Outstanding Society highlighting the Vivaldi project, the Dept. Health & Social Care updating on the new Learning & Development Support Scheme for the care sector and CQC closed the day with an apology for the frustrations providers have experienced over the last year, as well as an update on their plans to focus on inspections as a priority.
We have started to read through the online evaluations to see what managers would like to see at the next event as we will soon be planning again so will send out a ‘save the day’ once we know the date. Meanwhile here is some of the feedback from those who attended;
What would you like to see next time?
- Kindly give more time to questions and answer for the Panels, we all came to ensure some of the question affecting our day to day running of the service are answered by those we cannot easily have access to especially the commissioning, CQC and Safeguarding Team
- Speakers - Head of KCC, Head of Medway to explain priorities. Government for Social Care.
- More focus on Domiciliary care and opportunity's
- It would be good to have some positive reflection with speakers, I.E what has been achieved and successful, and not so much of plans
- Consider holding a poll to ascertain what topics managers might be interested in hearing more about (e.g., DoLS being LPS etc). Overall, beautifully organised.
General feedback on the event
- On the whole a very productive and useful day, I do think the move to an annual conference is appropriate.
- The Conference is very interactive and a pleasant atmosphere. Well done team very informative
- The whole day was interesting and enjoyable , it was well executed from start to finish
- I do agree with other people's comments about having more input from Experts By Experience, people who have used the services themselves before.
- Instead of workshops have focus groups to discuss areas within care where areas can be discussed and best practices shared
See you next year!!
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On 10 October we held another successful registered manager conference and was pleased to be joined by our Medway Council colleagues and providers.
