1. Social Work Reform: Progress, opportunities and challenges Lyn Romeo – Chief Social Worker for Adults

2. Visibility and Impact People & relationships Adaptive innovation Inter-cultural challenge David & Goliath The story

3. Return to the knitting It’s all about people Values & Attributes Confidence & Making a difference Core practice Many pitches

4. Social Work Reform: Progress, opportunities and challenges Isabelle Trowler – Chief Social Worker for Children and Families

5. It’s all in the balance Innovation in action Proof and plausibility Freedom and flexibilities Foolish consistency: the hobgoblin of the tiny mind Strength in effectiveness

6. The push and pull of politics Influence & ideas Practice leadership Holding our nerve Principles: social strength & solutions; autonomy & responsibility; clarification & complexity

7. Social Work Reform: Progress, opportunities and challenges Annie Hudson – Chief Executive, The College of Social Work

8. Narratives for change Who is social work? Contest + congruence Recasting professional identities Building social work’s ‘cultural capital’ The ‘sound’ of professional voices The role of a professional College

9. The head and heart of the work Agency, authority + evidence literacy ‘Clouded thinking’: rigour and risk Wicked issues + adaptive practice Resilience + courage (+ CPD) Systems leadership for 1 st class practice