Centre for Public Scrutiny

7th Annual Conference and Officer and Member Day
9 & 10 June 2009
Crowne Plaza Hotel, Nottingham
‘A critical friend for critical times’

Sessions include:

‘The Community Empowerment White Paper: one year on, what’s changed and how is the public getting involved in holding public service providers to account’?
Panel of expert speakers to answer questions such as: ‘Is public scrutiny essential or a luxury?’ plus questions posed from the audience
Facilitated debate on ‘How can the public play an active role in challenging public service providers’
Partner workshops from:
Association of Police Authorities http://www.apa.police.uk/apa
Appointments Commission http://www.appointments.org.uk/

The event will also include the Good Scrutiny Awards and Conference Dinner.

In partnership with:

Key Speakers include:

	Conference Chair: Broadcaster and Journalist, Kirsty Lang Kirsty is currently a News presenter for the BBC having first joined as a graduate trainee in 1986. She gained an MA in Journalism from City University, London after reading International Relations at the London School of Economics. Kirsty initially worked on programmes such as Today and The World at One. In 1989 she became a Central European correspondent for BBC World Service in Budapest. There she covered the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Balkans conflict. She later became a reporter for the BBC’s Newsnight. After a stint working for The Sunday Times in Paris, she joined Channel 4 News in 1998 as a studio presenter and news reporter. Kirsty returned to the BBC when the digital channel BBC 4 was launched in 2002. Kirsty is the presenter of The World, an international current affairs programme broadcast globally on World New Today. Kirsty is a regular presenter for Front Row on Radio Four.

	Michael Crick is a freelance journalist and prolific author who began his career as an ITN trainee in 1980. In 1982 he was a founder member of Channel 4 News and in 1988 became the programme's correspondent in Washington. He moved to the BBC in 1990, first on Panorama, and now is the political editor of Newsnight. One of his best known projects was a programme on Jeffrey Archer for Panorama.

	Peter Neyroud QPM  is a Chief Constable and the first Chief Executive of the National Policing Agency. Prior to this, he was Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police from 2002 and Vice-President of ACPO with responsibility for the NPIA and the reform of ACPO. Having begun his career as a police officer, he rose through the ranks and was appointed Assistant Chief Constable of West Mercia Constabulary in 1998, reached Deputy Chief Constable two years later and was awarded the Queen's Police Medal for Services to Police in 2004. Peter is a widely published author on policing, the editor of the Oxford Journal of Policing and a Jury member for the Stockholm International Prize in Criminology.

	Andrea Sutcliffe, Chief Executive, Appointments Commission Andrea joined the Commission in November 2007 from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) where she was Deputy Chief Executive and Planning and Resources Director. Immediately before joining NICE, Andrea was the Assistant Director for Performance Management and Resources in the Social Services department of the London Borough of Camden.

	Rt Hon Nick Raynsford MP, Chair, CfPS Nick Raynsford has been the Member of Parliament for Greenwich and Woolwich since 1997 (Greenwich 1992-1997). He joined the Government in 1997 and held responsibility for housing, planning and construction as well as being Minister for London. He was Minister for Local and Regional Government in the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister from 2001 to 2005. He was made a privy councillor in the 2001 New Year’s Honours.

	Bob Neill was elected as the Member of Parliament for Bromley & Chislehurst in June 2006. After only a year in Parliament he was appointed Shadow London Minister, joining the Shadow Communities & Local Government team. In 2008 he was made Shadow Local Government Minister and Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party and in January 2009, he took over the shadow planning brief. He has represented communities around London for nearly thirty years and has a wealth of local government experience. Prior to the creation of the Greater London Authority, he served on the former GLC, representing Romford. He served as London Assembly Member for Bexley and Bromley from 2000-2008. During this time he served as Leader of the Greater London Authority's Conservative Group until June 2006. Previous to entering politics, he studied law at the London School of Economics which led to a successful career as a barrister specialising in criminal law.

	Joan Saddler, National Director for Patient and Public Affairs for the Department of Health Joan's role as the National Director for Patient and Public Affairs for the Department of Health focuses on the inclusion, involvement and engagement of all people in the commissioning and delivery of health and social care services. As an experienced campaigner, manager and Chief Executive within the public sector, Joan established a number of groundbreaking initiatives involving the public in multi-agency partnership initiatives. As Chairman of Waltham Forest NHS Primary Care Trust for seven years, Joan managed a corporate board of executive and non-executive members with responsibility for the governance of an average annual budget of £300 million pounds. Joan received an OBE in June 2007 for services to health and diversity.

	Sally Hamwee, who is one of CfPS's Presidents, is a Liberal Democrat. She was a Councillor in Richmond upon Thames from 1978 to 1998, chairing the Planning Committee for some years. She chaired the London Planning Advisory Committee (one of four London-wide committees formed when the GLC was abolished) for its first eight years from 1986. Made a life peer in 1991 she has since then has held front bench positions reflecting the various Whitehall arrangements for local government has (currently CLG). She stood down in 2008 after eight years (more than four of them as Chair) as a member of the London Assembly, whose primary role is holding the Mayor of London to account. Her professional background is the law, as a solicitor specialising in media and entertainment work.