November 18th 2021, 14:00-15:30 BST
For this live-streamed roundtable event taking place within the Council Chamber of Barking and Dagenham Town Hall, we bring together artists, social workers, academics and care experienced people to discuss ‘hopeful disruption’ in social care. We explore how positively disrupting norms within the work of social care and art can have very positive outcomes.
We are joined by artists Gayle Chong Kwan, Paul Crook and Marley Starskey Butler; Vicky Hart, Social Work England; April Bald, the Director for Childrens Care and Support Barking and Dagenham; Luke Rogers, Director of The Care Leaders; social workers Rachel Parry Hughes, Norma O’Connell and Petra Prince and Prof. Claudia Bernard, Joint Head of Social Work, Therapeutic and Community Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London.
“… hopeful disruption, these are acts carried out by social care or cultural practitioners, which challenge conventional ways of talking and acting. Such disruption can be orchestrated or spontaneous, but it always emerges from an attitude of hope, and it can generate further hope. The New Town Culture programme could be viewed as an example of orchestrated ‘hopeful disruption’. To set out to make art and culture part of the core business of local authority social care services is to challenge the current way of doing things.” (Rachel Parry Hughes, Lecturer in Social Work, Goldsmiths, University of London).
This event launches a new set of professional tools and resources for social care and creative practitioners here on our website.
