Annual Conference 2003"Changing Social Policies"Thursday 4th and Friday 5th September, 2003Royal Dublin Hotel
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| Thursday, 4th September | |
| 18.00 | Registration and Coffee |
| 18.30 | Welcome and Introduction:Dr David Getty, Chair of ISPA |
| 18.45 | Keynote address: 'Globalisation and World Order - Challenges for Social Policy': Dr. Peader Kirby, Senior Lecturer - School of Law and Government, Dublin City University 'Globalisation and World Order: Challenges for Social Policy' |
| 19.30 | Reception and dinner |
| Friday, 5th September | |
| 09.30 | Registration and Coffee |
| SESSION 1: | "Implementing social policy at a local level" |
| Chair: Dr Anne Power, London School of Economics | |
| 10.00 | 'Matching policy to local needs': Mr Gerry Kearney, Secretary General, Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs. Matching policy to local needs |
| 10.25 | 'Lessons from a practitioner's perspective': Mr Hugh Greaves, Co-ordinator, Ballymun Local Drugs Task Force. Local Policy Implementation |
| 10.50 | Panel Discussion |
| 11.15 | Coffee |
| SESSION 2: | "Social inclusion in the 21st century" |
| 11.30 | Parallel session 1 - Migration |
| Chair | Ms. Siobhan O'Donoghue; Co-ordinator - Migrants' Rights Centre Ireland Migrant Rights Centre Ireland |
| Speakers | 'European policy and immigration': Ms Anastasia Crickley; Centre of Applied Social Studies, NUI Maynooth / European Migration Policy Group |
| 'Social inclusion and immigration': Professor Bryan Fanning, University College Dublin. Immigration | |
| 11.30 | Parallel session 2 - Housing |
| Chair | TBC |
| Speakers | 'Local Authority Housing Management Reform - Progress and Prospects': Dr Michelle Norris; Director, Housing Unit & Dr Cathal O'Connell, Department of Applied Social Studies, University College Cork Housing Management |
| 'The experience of voluntary housing associations - North and South': Mary Lee Rhodes, Trinity College Dublin Implementing social policy in the non-profit sector: housing in Ireland, north and south | |
| 12.45 | Lunch |
| SESSION 3: | "Poverty in Ireland - a Social Policy Perspective" |
| 14.00 | 'Child Poverty in the UK - lessons for social policy': Professor John Hills, Director, Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economics UK Child Poverty |
| 14.30 | 'An Irish perspective on child poverty': Dr. Brian Nolan, ESRI Child Poverty |
| 15.00 | 'Poverty in Ireland, Comparing North and South': Dr Paddy Hillyard, University of Ulster & Dr Mike Tomlinson, Queens University Belfast Northern Ireland Poverty |
| 15.30 | Panel Discussion |
| 16.00 | Summary and Close |