Demos is launching a new report, Making it Personal, which explores the next big idea in public services – participative public services.

Social care is on the brink of its most radical change in 50 years. Individual budgets hold the promise of allowing people to shape public services to meet their needs, by turning users into innovators and investors who design and commission their own services.
 
This day long conference will launch Demos' exploration of how far this approach can spread from social care into other areas of public services, bringing together leading thinkers and policy makers to question, discuss, and develop this new agenda.
 
The day will include four expert & practitioner led workshops exploring the key challenges to implementing this radical new policy, and a participative lunch hour inviting delegates to join the individual budget revolution.

If you are interested in attending, please RSVP to conference@demos.co.uk

The Agenda:

9.00am         Registration

10.00am       Report Launch

• Catherine Fieschi, Director, Demos (hear Catherine's introduction here - mp3, 2.9mb)
• Charles Leadbeater, Demos Associate (hear the talk here - mp3, 9.7mb)
  
• Ed Miliband, Minister for the Cabinet Office (you can download the text of the talk here.)
  

11.00am      Coffee & Refreshments

11.30am      Participative public services: the seeds of revolution

• Simon Duffy, Chief Executive, in Control (hear the talk here; mp3, 9.5mb)
  
• Phil Collins, Senior Visiting Fellow, LSE (listen; mp3 6.3mb)
  

12.00pm      Participative Public Services: making revolution reality

• David Varney, Prime Minister's advisor on Public Service Transformation (listen; mp3, 2.9mb)
  
• Geoff Mulgan, Director, Young Foundation (listen; mp3, 5.3mb)
  
• Dame Denise Platt, Chair, Commission for Social Care Inspection (listen; mp3, 8.9mb)
  

1.00pm        Lunch

2.00pm        Breakout workshops (x4)

1. More than just a budget: how does this work economically and at scale?

• Chair, David Albury (Associate, Demos)
• Simon Duffy (Chief Executive, in Control)
• Alex O'Neil (Policy and Practice Manager, Joseph Rowntree Foundation)
• Ed Mayo (Chief Executive, National Consumer Council)
• Diane Eaton (Programme Director of Adult Social Care, Manchester City Council)
• Julia Winter (personal budget user)

2.  Purse strings and pragmatism: a masterclass in financial management

• Chair, Charles Leadbeater (Demos Associate)
• John Waters (Technical Director, in Control)
• Andrew Cozens (Strategic Advisor for Children, Adults and Health Services, IDeA)
• Chris Moon-Willems (personal budget user)

3. Getting over challengese of fraud and risk

• Chair, David Brindle (Social Services Correspondent, Guardian)
• Steve Bundred (Chief Executive, Audit Commission)
• Julie Stansfield (Operations Director, in Control)
• Professor Chris Hatton (Lancaster University)
• Tony Holland (personal budget user)

4. Working it out: workforce reform and the supply side response

• Sophia Parker (Consultant, Innovation Forum for local government)
• Andrea Rowe (Chief Executive, Skills for Care)
• Veronica Jackson (Executive Director of Adult & Community Services, Oldham Council; Personalisation Lead, Association of Directors of Adult Social Services Coordinating Group)
• James Fothergill (Head of Public Procurement Policy, Conferedation of British Industry)
• John Craig (Director, Innovation Exchange)
• Charlotte Morse (personal budget user)

3.30pm     Coffee & Refreshments

3.45pm     What next for participative public services?

• Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive, RSA (listen; mp3, 5.1mb)
  
• Baroness Jane Campbell, Chair of Disability Committee, Commission for Eqaulity & Human Rights; and Jenny Morris, independent consultant (listen; mp3, 7.0mb)
  
• Anna Coss, Head of Strategic Policy Performance and Planning, West Sussex County Council (listen; mp3, 18.9mb)
  
• Norman Lamb MP, Liberal Democrat Shadow Health Minister (listen; mp3, 6.8mb)
  

4.45pm      Conference ends