Wednesday 27 June 2012

Time	Description	Location
8.00	Breakfast fringe sessions:
	Efficient Highway Maintenance – making local roads work - Asphalt Industry Alliance (AIA) Speakers: David Weeks, AIA Andrew Forster, Editor of Local Transport Today Councillor Mike Jones, Council Leader, Cheshire West & Chester Kevin Carrol, Highway Manager, Cheshire West & Chester Councillor Mohammed Pervez, Council Leader, Stoke-on-Trent Malcolm Dawson, Strategic Manager for Roads and Engineering, Stoke on Trent Chair: Andrew Forster, Editor of Local Transport Today	Hall 7A
	Quick wins and missed opportunities: how local authorities can work with disabled people to shape a better future – RNIB and OPM Speakers: Patrick Butler, Editor of society, health and education policy for the Guardian Councillor David Rogers, Chairman, Community Well-being Board, LGA Andrew Kaye, Policy Manager, Royal National Institute of Blind People Councillor Iain Watson, Leader of South Tyneside Open to all delegates, breakfast will be served.	Hall 7B
	Who polices the commissioners? – IPPR North Speakers: Joanne Roney, Chief Executive of Wakefield Metropolitan District Council Ian Loader, Professor of Criminology and Director of the Centre for Criminology at the University of Oxford Chair: Ed Cox, Director of IPPR North	Hall 8A
	Improvement science: understanding the opportunity, increasing the pace and injecting the necessary capacity to enable effective delivery - Newton Europe Speakers: Irene Lucas CBE, Globalnet Steve Phillips, Newton Europe	Hall 8B
	What do Digital by default, the Government Digital Service and the open data agenda mean for local government? A mySociety discussion Open to all delegates	Room 1, Meetingspace at Eleven BrindleyPlace
	Birmingham City Council – A 21^st Century workplace	Executive Room 1
	Sheffield City Region Leadership Academy	Copthorne Hotel Birmingham
	Public Sector Spin-offs: How do we make them sustainable?	Fortissimo meeting room, Hyatt Hotel
From 8.30	Registration and exhibition opens
9.15	Plenary session 2 – political spokesperson Rt Hon Ed Davey MP, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change	Hall 1
9.45	Plenary session 3 – Councils and better health: how local leaders can seize the opportunities of the NHS reforms The need for Health and Well-being Boards and the NHS Commissioning Board to develop relationships to ensure that commissioning of health services is transparent, locally accountable and focused on the needs of local communities. As we prepare for the transfer of public health to local government in 2013, this plenary session offers a valuable opportunity to analyse the implications for local government and public health. Speakers: Keynote speech by Sir David Nicholson KCB CBE, Chief Executive of the NHS in England Chair: Mike Burton, The MJ	Hall 1
10.30	Refreshments and exhibition viewing LGA smoothie reception VfM toolkit launch	LGA group stand
11.15	Workshop sessions
	W10 – Can we learn from the private sector? How do we reduce workforce costs and still drive innovation? Speakers: Brian Dive, Managing Director DMA Consultancy Anthony Thomson, Metro Bank Chair: Chris Johnson, UK human capital leader, Mercer	Hall 7B
	W11 – Be a councillor: councillors as talent spotters Speakers: Councillor Sir Merrick Cockell, Chairman, LGA Councillor Tim Pickstone, Association of Liberal Democrat Councillors Councillor Ann Lucas, Coventry City Council Councillor Marianne Overton, Vice Chair, LGA Chair: Heather Jameson, Editor, The MJ	Hall 7A
	W12 – Civil disturbances 10 months on – are we doing enough to prevent further disorder in the future? Speakers: Councillor Ahsan Khan, London Borough of Waltham Forest Councillor John Cotton, Cabinet Member for Social Cohesion and Equalities, Birmingham City Council Darra Singh, Chairman of Communities and Victims Panel Commander Mak Chishty, Metropolitan Police Chair: Councillor Duwayne Brooks, London Borough of Lewisham	Hall 8A
	W13 – Surviving the squeeze: getting to a sustainable settlement for local government Speakers: Councillor Sharon Taylor, Member of LGA finance task group and Leader, Stevenage Borough Council Stephen Hughes, Chief Executive, Birmingham City Council David Smith, Director of Resources, Kirklees Council Simon Ridley, Director of Local Government Finance, Communities and Local Government Chair: Councillor Julian German, Cornwall Council	Hall 4
	W14 – Beyond books and buildings: should councils close their libraries to save money? Speakers: Councillor David Hodge, Leader, Surrey County Council Sir Steve Bullock, Mayor, London Borough of Lewisham and Chair, LGA Workforce Board Chair: Councillor Flick Rea, Chair, Culture, Tourism and Sport Board	Executive Room 2
	W15 – A Magna Carta for Local Government Speakers: Lord Tyler, Co-Chair of the Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Party Committee on Constitutional and Political Reform Councillor Robert Light, LGA and Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council Graham Allen MP, Chair, Political and Constitutional Reform Select Committee Councillor Apu Bagchi, Bedford Council Chair: Mayor Dorothy Thornhill, Watford Borough Council	Hall 5
	W16 – Using planning to deliver for – and with – your communities Speakers: Councillor Barry Wood, Leader, Cherwell Council Councillor Ed Turner, Deputy Leader,Oxford City Council Councillor Mike Haines, Teignbridge District Council Andrew Whitaker, Planning Director, Home Builders Federation Chair: Councillor David Parsons CBE, Leader, Leicestershire County Council	Hall 8B
	W17 – Fit for the Future: Beyond Sharing what next for councils? – Sponsored iESE Speakers: Councillor Peter Fleming, Chair, Improvement Board, LGA Simon Parker, Director of New Local Government Network Stephen Baker, Chief Executive, Suffolk Coastal and Waveney DCs Alison Templeton, Director, Market Leverage, iESE Chair: Emma Maier, Editor, LGC	Executive Room 1
	W18 – Taking the lead – councils improving adults and children’s services Speakers: David Taylor, Director of People’s Services, Shropshire County Council Councillor Robert Sleigh, Lead member for Health & Wellbeing Dave Martin, Interim Director of Adult Social Care, Solihull Councillor Rita Krishna, London Borough of Hackney	Executive Room 8
12.15	Lunch and exhibition viewing	Hall 3
12.20	Forum for new leaders (invite only)	Executive Room 7
12.30 – 13.00	How the private and community sectors generate social value together The LGIU and John Laing reveal the findings and recommendations from their new report, Future Service Partnerships.	Hall3 Networking zone
12.00 – 14.00	Fringe lunch meeting: Local Government and the future of public health Kindly funded by Sanofi Pasteur	Fortissimo Meeting Room, Hyatt Hotel
12.45	Chief Executives session – The Naked Leader – inspirational leadership There is a new wave of thinking and action that puts people before process, choice before change, and meaning before money. We are now entering a new business, leadership and global age, with a vision, agenda and spirit born out of the realisation that there has to be a different way of success, business and leadership. One that sets us free from traditional business thinking, and takes you, your business and your life to new levels of awareness, success and achievement. The Naked Leader is a distillation of David Taylor’s ideas and inspiration – ideas which have made him Europe’s most sought-after speaker on leadership and personal growth. David is known as the “Naked Leader” because of his extraordinary ability to strip away uncertainty and doubt, and conclusively show that everything we need to be successful, we already have. Taylor reveals the exact, specific actions to take to predict the future, and then shape it. As a practitioner, not a theorist, Taylor knows what works, and what does not. He shows us what to do, and exactly when to do it. Speaker: David Taylor, Professor of Leadership at Warwick University Business School and author of The Naked Leader	Hall 5
	District Councils Network Executive	Executive Room 8
13.00	Anyone can use twitter – the question is why should you? This discussion will focus on the impacts and reasons for using new technology tools as well as sharing best practice by politicians	Hall 3 Networking Zone
13.30	Networking session for those interested in mitigating pressures on adult social care budgets by introducing new simple pathways to support self funding citizens, led by Partnership.	Hall 3 Networking Zone
14.00	Plenary session 4: Local Government Challenge The Local Government Challenge, now in its third year, is designed to give staff with the drive and determination to reach the top, the opportunity to demonstrate their individual and team-working skills. Open to employees in the LGA’s member authorities, contestants will undertake a series of challenges in a range of council services. The winner of the LG Challenge, who will be announced at the close of the conference and can look forward to a career enhancing scholarship worth up to £10,000 from the Bruce Lockhart Leadership Programme. Chair: Councillor Marianne Overton, Vice Chair, LGA Panelists: Carolyn Downs, Chief Executive, LGA Graham Farrant, Chief Executive, Thurrock Council Paul Knight, 2011 LG Challenge winner	Hall 1
14.45	Plenary session 5: Community budgets At the LGA’s annual conference 2011, the Deputy Prime Minister announced support for areas to develop two ‘whole-place’ community budgets and two others to do the same at a neighbourhood level. Subsequently, on the 21st December 2011, the Government announced that four areas had been selected to take forward the whole area approach and 10 for the neighbourhood level. Six months on from their successful selection, two places who are taking a leading role in shaping the future of public service delivery will share their experiences with delegates. Speakers: Councillor Sir Richard Leese, Leader, Manchester City Council Councillor Philippa Roe, Leader, Westminster City Council Jim Barker-McCardle, Chief Constable, Essex Police Dr Huw Charles-Jones, Chair, West Cheshire Clinical Commissioning Group Chair: Councillor Sir Merrick Cockell	Hall 1
15.30	Plenary session 6: Driving local growth In November 2011, the LGA launched a ‘Local Growth Campaign’ to highlight the important role that councils play in creating the right conditions for local economic growth. At this plenary, we will be concluding our campaign and launching our own Green Paper on growth, highlighting the critical role that councils can play in the national economic recovery and how a renewed programme of localism could support new jobs and investment. Speakers: Chair and speaker: Councillor Peter Box, Chair, Economy and Transport Board, LGA John Cridland, Director General, CBI Angela Maxwell OBE, Founder, Acuwomen and board member of the West Midlands Enterprise Board (and previously board member, Advantage West Midlands)	Hall 1
16.30	How to identify missing council tax! How to identify missing council tax! Using live demonstrations and case studies, we will show how local authorities can combine their information with our mapping data and addressing products to minimise council tax fraud. Aimed at anyone who thinks that there might be some council tax fraud in their area! A session led by Geoplace.	Hall 3 Networking zone
16.30	Political group meetings
	LGA Conservative Group Speaker: Bob Neil MP	Hall 1
	LGA Labour Group Speakers: Councillor Keith Wakefield Councillor Catherine West Councillor Jim McMahon	Hall 4
	LGA Liberal Democrat Group Adapting to the new financial environment	Hall 8B
	LGA Independent Group Working out the implications of the Localism Bill This session will be in a workshop format for you, to let us know how changes in local government brought about by the Localism Bill are affecting your council and community. We hope to gain from this workshop a clear view about what you think the LGA and the Independent Group should be prioritising. Speakers: Paul Raynes, Head of Programmes, LGA Chair: Councillor Marianne Overton	Hall 7A
	Chief Executives sessionSleepless nights – what children’s services improvement can bring Invited Chief Executives (tbc)	Hall 8A
	New challenges, better ways of working – practical approaches to changing the way we work – Vodafone UK Speakers: Bruce Everest, Business Technologist, Vodafone UK Alan Shields, Strategy and Architecture Team Manager, Cambridgeshire County Council	Hall 7B
17.45	Drinks Reception
18.30	Exhibition closes
18.30 – 20.00	Becoming the change we want to see – New Designs for Local Government Improvement and Efficiency West Midlands Meet us at the Hyatt Following a surprise announcement, this West Midlands transformational showcase provides the perfect networking opportunity for sector leaders.	Symphony Ballroom, Hyatt Regency
18.45	Evening fringe sessions
	Local growth (Local economies, local growth campaign) Speakers: Councillor Peter Box, Wakefield Metropolitan District Council Councillor Shona Johnstone, Cambridgeshire County Council Councillor Mike Haines, Teignbridge District Council	Hall 8A
	How can we put communities at the heart of the new planning framework? Speakers: Sean Toal, The Co-operative Group Kate Henderson,Town and Country Planning Association Councillor Ed Turner, Oxford City Council Chair: Andrew Carter, Director of Policy and Research, Centre for Cities	Executive Room 1
	How can Local Government help ensure the long-term growth and success of local business by helping them to manage fire risk- Business Sprinkler Alliance Speakers: Richard Hobbs, Warwickshire County Councillor, Portfolio Holder – Community Safety, and member of the LGA Cross-Party Working Group on Sprinklers Colin Spence, Suffolk County Councillor Portfolio Holder for Public Protection David Wilson, Derbyshire County Councillor, Vice chairman of the Improvement and Scrutiny Committee for Communities, Culture and the Environment and represents the Council on the Derbyshire Fire Authority	Hall 7B
	St. Modwen Longbridge tour – the region’s largest regeneration scheme	External
	Unlocking local capacity: switching on the power of councillors as community leaders (OPM)	Hall 7A
	A partnership for change: What could the Post Office do for you? Post Offices Ltd	Hall 8B
	Pre Dinner Drinks Reception and Launch – The NLGN Next Localism Commission	Fortissimo meeting room, Hyatt Hotel
19.00	LAING sponsored dinner Invitation only	Hall 11

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LGA annual conference and exhibition 2012

Wednesday 27 June 2012