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Sign up for the Making Participation Work Practitioner's Conference!

Making Participation Work Practitioner’s Conference is for professionals and practitioners designing and delivering participation and co-production at a strategic level across children and young people’s health, education, and social care. As part of the Department for Education funded Making Participation Work programme the Council for Disabled Children are delivering the next national practitioner’s conference online on Tuesday 13th June 2023. The conference brings together participation, co-production, engagement practitioners, and strategic managers to discuss how SEND youth voice and engagement plays a role in developing quality local area provision.

Attendees will have the option to select two workshops to attend from a variety of topics, and a plenary session, all focusing on giving participants more tools for engaging with children and young people with SEND. The event will be interactive, and attendees will be able to contribute via discussion and online tools.

Workshops will be announced in the coming weeks, keep an eye out for an email inviting you to make your workshop selections using a Google Form, these will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis.

The conference will be held online via Zoom and the deadline for sign-ups will be Monday 15th May 2023.

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