• What the reform programme is trying to achieve overall

• Progress so far and how success is being measured

• Timelines: what’s happening now, next, and later

• How the CSRP is evolving in the context of the new Child Protection Authority

• How frontline practitioners can access child protection expertise from the CSRP

• How social workers can and should implement national learning from serious incidents into their practice

• The latest emerging themes in child protection that professionals should be aware of

• What the bill does (and doesn’t) do

• Key provisions affecting children’s social care, including: requirements for establishing multi-agency child protection teams; the implications for information sharing in relation to safeguarding; the new court order that enables deprivation of liberty; how the regulation of children’s homes is changing

• The interface with existing legislation (Children Act 1989, Working Together)

• Likely implementation challenges and grey areas

• Short scene-setting (5 minutes): what family help and multi-agency child protection teams are meant to achieve

• Two case-study presentations (10–12 minutes each)

• Facilitated discussion and audience Q&A

• What the new induction programme is designed to achieve

• How it will differ from the ASYE and what year two will look like

• Understanding the new post-qualifying standards that practitioners will be measured against