In-Person

3PB Family's 2025 Care Conference

Event Details

 Friday 21st Nov 2025
8:45 am - 4:30 pm
Early Bird ticket price of £ 65 (+VAT)
  The Harbour Hotel, 5 Maritime Walk, Southampton SO14 3QT
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The 3PB Family team are pleased to share the agenda for our full-day Care Conference chaired by Lucy Hendry KC.

We are delighted to announce and are extremely grateful that our keynote speaker on Friday 21 November will be Lord Justice Jackson. 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 Jackson - 'What FDAC teaches us about care proceedings.’ We welcome your questions ahead of His Lordship's talk. Click here to contribute.
  • Emma Griffiths 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?'
  • Gemma Farrington KC will speak on Deprivation of Liberty.
  • 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.

Tickets priced £65 (+VAT) are available for purchase.

Venue Information

The Harbour Hotel, 5 Maritime Walk, Southampton SO14 3QT Get directions