26-28th November 2025

Newton at NCAS Conference 2025

We partner with local authorities to improve and innovate public services, so they are connected, resident centric, and financially sustainable.

Since we were last together at NCAS last autumn, the pace of change and reform has not let up.

In that context, we’re proud that our client partnerships are helping to create connected, resident centric, and financially sustainable services which deliver good outcomes. This means thousands of adults and children are living more independent and autonomous lives connected to their families and communities. This is saving the state millions of pounds.

Our partnerships are developing ever more innovative models of service delivery, creating real cause for continued optimism.

Our work with Xantura is accelerating, providing novel insights into the range of need families and individuals experience in a place. This is leading to the delivery of innovative and effective prevention strategies, and resident centric service redesign. We are bringing further innovation in developing new models of care, utilising public-private partnerships to finance the development of new and much needed care provision, such as dementia nursing care and extra care housing.

Over the last year, we’re pleased to have also continued to invest in our research programmes, including:

Working alongside CCN to examine the implications of LGR on people services. Working with the charity Revolving Doors to understand the opportunity to better support individuals caught in the cycle of reoffending. Partnering with Partners in Care and Health to deliver the ‘Future of Prevention’ programme. Following its success, we are now working with Partners in Care and Health and NHS Providers to convene a new community of practice focussed on maximising the impact of integrated neighbourhood teams.

We are delighted that a number of our clients are featured on the programme, sharing how they are improving and innovating services:

Regional Care Cooperatives

Wednesday, 26th November 11:05am – 12:05pm (GMT)

Solent Hall, BIC

This session will share learning from two contrasting regions on how they are developing regional arrangements for commissioning in the context of the Department for Education’s stated national policy direction. In the session you will hear from the South East Regional Care Cooperative (RCC) one of two national pathfinders to date about their progress in establishing the RCC to date and learning they can share from that, with a focus on planning through to intervention. You will also hear from the North East region on how they are working regionally outside of the Pathfinder programme. In particular they will share the work commissioned by the region from Newton Europe focused on those children with the most complex care arrangements and how that is informing regional plans.

Lucy Butler – Chief ExecUTIVE, South East Regional Care Cooperative

John Pearce – Corporate Director; former ADCS President of Children and Young People’s Services, Durham County Council

Luke Tregidgo – Director, Newton

Chair: Jo Fisher – Executive Director Children’s Services; Chair; FORMER pRESIDENT, Hertfordshire County Council; ADCS Regional Improvement and Inspection Policy Network; adcs
Adapt, grow and thrive in Southampton: Building financial resilience by promoting better outcomes for our adults and children

Thursday, 27th November 9:30am – 10:30am (GMT)

Purbeck Bar, BIC

In the context of Southampton’s challenging financial journey of recent years, this session will describe how we are delivering significant budget savings by reinventing and reorganising services to promote better outcomes for Adults and Children. We will talk about how leaders within our service have been instrumental in delivering the change; how data and intelligence have powered our improvement journey; how culture change follows process change; and how we intend to build on this work through our early intervention and prevention strategy, based on locality working, data-targeted interventions and long-term demand forecasting.

Rob Henderson – Executive Director Community Wellbeing, Children and Learning (DASS and DCS), Southampton City Council

Steph Murray – Director Children’s Social Care, Southampton City Council

Kay Reeve – Director Adult Social Care, Southampton City Council
Birmingham Families First: improving partnership working for children, young people and families in Europe’s largest city council

Thursday, 27th November 4:10pm – 5:10pm (GMT)

Purbeck Bar, BIC

This session will provide an opportunity to hear about the exciting work we’re undertaking in Birmingham to strengthen our partnership working for children, young people and families and how this supports our local implementation of Family Help. We will also talk about the multi-agency case summary tool, and advanced data analytics platform, being built to support identifying those families most at risk of escalating needs.

Dr Sue Harrison – Director of Children’s Services, Birmingham City Council

James Thomas – Chief Executive, Birmingham Children’s Trust