Our Conference forums provide the space and time to connect with colleagues across the service, share practice and soundboard ideas with others tackling similar questions.

This session builds on the key ideas generated in the September Challenge Event around partnerships. You’ll have the opportunity to choose a specific idea you want to work on in roundtables, and our facilitators will support you to share ideas and practice with one another and build locally-focused solutions together.

Example ideas to work on include:

- A mentoring programme for local branches struggling to establish strong and equal partnerships with their local authority / health / statutory peers

- DIY partnership/conference workbook. A toolkit that would enable LCAs to easily publicise, prepare and produce a small local partnership conference, showcasing our work and our data

- Raising awareness that CA is a charity (not a government provision) and needs funding to deliver services. How we can lobby grant funders to understand that and support our longstanding work

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