WMCA Spring Conference hailed a great success!

We held our Spring Conference at a new venue, the Molineux Stadium, in Wolverhampton, on 18^th April, where we welcomed approximately 60 care providers, 8 exhibitors and 4 guest speakers to the day.

Our Chief Executive, Keiron Broadbent, opened the day, welcoming everyone who attended and introducing our fantastic speakers.

1) Judith Timmins- Compliance Coach

First up was Judith Timmins, Compliance Coach, who gave attendees a short briefing about the upcoming workshop series she is running, in partnership with West Midlands Care Association, at Dudley Canal Trust, in June.

This workshop series will be geared towards new businesses and those seeking to create a new care business and will guide them on how to run a successful care business.

These workshops will also be open to any care providers who wish to attend for any support they may need.

There will be a charge for these workshops of £120 per session or £300 for all 3 sessions and you can book your place here.

2) Harrison Clark Rickerbys

3) Chris Briggs - Quality of Care - Business Efficiency, including Cost Control and Optimisation

Business Continuity Planning

Chris then proceeded on to his next session, after lunch, around Business Continuity Planning.

Within this session, Chris covered the following points:

• Why you need a BCP?
• Identifying incidents
• Carrying out risk analysis inc weather, digital security and GDPR compliance
• BCP Structure and Documents
• Managing incidents

4) Peter Cheer Consultancy- How to Create a Successful Safeguarding Culture in your Business?

Peter then left providers with some questions to ponder, to analyse their service after the conference:

• What are people’s experiences in your service, in relation to safeguarding?
• What are staff and leaders like when it comes to safeguarding?
• What feedback have you had from partners? (ie Safeguarding teams, health colleagues)
• Observations of your work environment and if there is an open atmosphere of reporting safeguarding concerns
• Processes- Are concerns and trends reviewed?