ADCS Annual Conference 2025

 The ADCS Annual Conference 2025 will again take place at the Midland Hotel, Manchester between 9 and 11  July 2025. 

The first 24 hours of the conference, from lunchtime on Wednesday 9 July, is exclusively reserved for DCSs and Trust Chief Executive. The conference opens to the wider ADCS membership from 11am on Thursday 10 July,

The conference, which is exclusively for ADCS members, provides a unique opportunity to come together to share best practice, innovation, and learning from across the children’s services sector.

 

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Presentations

Presentations will be shared here when available:

Leadership

• ALDCS - Racial  Equity and Leadership Programme - Jacquie Burke

Local Government Reorganisation

• Colin Foster, Northamptonshire Children's Trust

President's conference speech

• View Rachael Wardell's speech

Responding to Violence Against Women and Girls

• Michael Conroy, Men at Work CiC
• Rashida Baig, Camden
• Rochdale’s Sunrise Complex Safeguarding Team

EDI

• Regional Insights from the East Midlands Leadership Programme Focused on EDI - Nicci Collins

Placements

• Greater Manchester RCC
• DfE / Steve Crocker - Securing Sufficient Placements
• Laurelle Brown, Black Adoption Project

Poverty and Early Childhood Development

• Coventry - Allison Duggal and Alicia Phillips
• Booktrust - Annie Crombie
  • Benefits of reading by age - diagram
  •  Reading Rights report 

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Programme

An outline programme is available. View outline programme

FAQs

A helpful collection of frequently asked questions, including start/finish times are available here.  

Sponsorship and Exhibition Opportunities

There are no opportunities for sponsorship, nor exhibition space at the ADCS Annual Conference.  Organisations interested in such opportunities may wish to explore the packages on offer at the National Children and Adult Services Conference - please visit www.ncasc.info 

Contact

Please contact rebecca.denny@adcs.org.uk with any queries regarding conference.

 

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