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NCAS Conference 2025 – Newton fringe activity

Newton at NCASC 2025

This year we are facilitating four roundtables and one working session covering a range of topics including the upcoming social care reforms, prevention and early intervention, the ethics of AI, and inclusion. Sessions will take place at the Marriott Highcliff Hotel, Bournemouth and refreshments will be provided.

Places are limited, and so to reserve your place, please complete the form below, highlighting which of the sessions you would like to attend.

Once confirmed, you will then receive the joining details and a calendar invitation before you arrive in Bournemouth. If you would like any further information about these events, please contact [email protected]

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    Navigating the delays in SEND reform: What can we do now to improve services for children with SEND and stabilise costs

    Marriott Highcliff Hotel

    The white paper on SEND reforms has now been pushed back to 2026. This roundtable will explore what local authorities can do now in collaboration with local partners to improve services for children with SEND and stabilise costs. The roundtable will likely explore topics including: how to identify specific children earlier who would benefit from additional support to remain in a mainstream setting; how to effectively work with local mainstream schools and partners; how to manage maintained special school capacity; to what extent local area inclusion plans should also consider children in alternate provision, excluded from education or electively home educated vs a more specific focus on children with SEND.

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    The ethics of AI prevention in Adult Social Care: How do we ensure we are improving lives, not intruding on them?​

    Marriott Highcliff Hotel

    Deploying Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer a question of ‘if’ but ‘how’, as is ensuring we realise the potential of this technology in a responsible, proportionate way. This roundtable will explore how local authorities are applying AI to deliver on proactive prevention in adult social care and the ethical considerations service leaders have needed to address in doing so. It will provide an opportunity for senior leaders to explore and discuss the values that should underpin how AI is used to improve outcomes for residents.​

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    Proactive prevention at scale: A working session to inform our engagement with government

    Marriott Highcliff Hotel

    Over the past year, through the LGA-sponsored Future of Prevention Community of Practice, 20 local authorities have worked alongside partners to co-develop a practical delivery model and a robust evaluation framework for targeted proactive prevention. Several local authorities involved are now planning to collaborate on a multi-council implementation programme to create the country’s first large-scale evidence base for proactive prevention. Social care leaders have secured a meeting with Minister for Care, Stephen Kinnock MP, to discuss how central government might support local authorities through a prevention support package. The purpose of this working session will be to workshop and stress-test proposals with colleagues ahead of this meeting. In particular, they will be exploring how local authorities and central government can work together to accelerate the scaling up of proactive prevention nationally, including what support from government would make the greatest difference. ​

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    How can local area partners best work together to move towards an end-to-end system of preventative and rehabilitative services that keep children with their families?​

    Marriott Highcliff Hotel

    Local authority children’s services have long aimed to intervene earlier – to provide children and families with preventative support at the right time and in doing so change life trajectories. There are many local examples of early intervention good practice. However, working preventatively at scale, across systems, and demonstrating value remains a challenge. This roundtable will explore topics including: how can local systems more effectively identify children and families most at risk and those who would most benefit from earlier intervention; what evidence is there about the common needs and circumstances of these families; and what opportunities are there to better harness the significant resources already existing in the children’s services system? The roundtable will support a programme of work by the Society of County Treasurers and the County Councils Network, who have commissioned Newton. Prior to the roundtable, attendees will have access to the emerging insight.​

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    How do we achieve the greatest impact from the Casey Review?​

    Marriott Highcliff Hotel

    The Casey Review is now underway, with a range of stakeholders being engaged to offer their perspective – and the Review already starting to transition from listening to recommendations for phase one. ​ Following suggestions from colleagues across the sector to convene a conversation, this working roundtable is designed to understand what the combined evidence from local and national good practice points towards in terms of the key recommendations the sector wants to ask of the Commission, and which will have the greatest impact.​

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