The Conference
Two Days of Powerful Presentations
30th & 31st May 2018
One of the greatest challenges for those working in the voluntary sector in Ireland is to establish a new dynamic relationship with the State, which will enhance the lives of people with disabilities.
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There are innovative alternative ways for the voluntary sector to do business with the State. Costs and time can be reduced and streamlined, while still maintaining our values and the high standards.
Find out more about how we can improve systems of doing business with the State from leading Irish and International speakers at our conference.
Our speakers include: renowned international expert on governance and contracting Professor Charles Sabel, leading voices from the voluntary sector in Ireland and the UK. Mr. Finian McGrath T.D., Minister for State with Special Responsibility for Disabilities will also address the conference.
Invitees include representatives from the Department of Health, the HSE, HIQA, the National Economic and Social Council, the Charities Regulator and the Independent Review Group on the Role of Voluntary Organisations.
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Speakers
Proud to bring inspirational speakers from the United States, England and Ireland
Professor Charles Sabel
Charles Sabel is professor of law and social science at Columbia Law school. Before that he was Ford international professor of social science at MIT. He did his undergraduate and graduate degrees in the social sciences at Harvard. His current writing is on contracting, regulation and service provision under uncertainty and the new forms of accountability they imply.
John Burton
For more than 50 years John has worked in social care at most levels and with all ages. He works with nine-year-olds and ninety-year-olds and with their homes and organisations and the professionals who staff them. He has written several books and countless articles. He continues to campaign for homely, person to person care, believing that good care can only be achieved through a well-thought-out and disciplined therapeutic ecology and structure.
Brendan Broderick
Brendan Broderick has been Chief Executive Officer of the Muiríosa Foundation since September 2002. The Muiríosa Foundation provide a comprehensive range of supports and services to persons with an intellectual disability in seven midland counties. Prior to assuming his current position, Brendan practiced as a clinical psychologist across a range of health settings. He is a former President of the Psychological Society of Ireland, and Chairperson of the National Federation of Voluntary Bodies and was a member of the inaugural lay-majority Medical Council.
In recent years he has been a member of a number of Department of Health and HSE committees and working groups:
The Value for Money and Policy Review of Disability Services in Ireland; The Working Group on Congregated Settings; and the Expert Group on Resource Allocation and Financing in the Health Sector.
John Dolan
John Dolan is originally from Tipperary and has polio since childhood. He has held the position of CEO of the Disability Federation of Ireland (DFI) since 2000 and is a long established and passionate disability inclusion advocate. He secured a seat in the Seanad 2016 elections on the Administrative Panel. He spent 20 years as an employee of the Irish Wheelchair Association (IWA).
John has a comprehensive understanding of issues across the disability movement and in his role as head of the DFI has served the interests of people with disabilities and their families in Ireland over the past seventeen years.
He has been active in the development of the National Disability Strategy and has been at the forefront of many innovative developments in the fight for inclusion for people with disabilities. He was also a member of National Economic and Social Council from 2003 until 2010.
Ivan Cooper
Ivan is Director of Public Policy with The Wheel and works to progress policy on cross-cutting issues affecting the community and voluntary sector such as charity regulation, funding the sector, active-citizenship, commissioning, and raising awareness of the significance of the sector. Prior to his work with The Wheel Ivan held management positions with the Crisis Pregnancy Agency, Wicklow Chamber of Commerce, Wicklow Working Together (a community development group) and Dundee College of Further Education. Ivan represents The Wheel on a range of national and international fora and is one of The Wheel’s lead trainers in the areas of governance, strategic leadership and outcomes-based working. He holds an MBA from Smurfit Business School, a Higher Diploma in Development Studies and a primary degree in psychology and philosophy.
Katherine O'Leary
Katherine is married to Tim, a dairy farmer. They have four adult children, Julie, Diarmuid, Philip and Colm. Katherine, a Farm Home Advisor worked for a time with Laois County Committee of Agriculture, the Munster Institute training college and Cork’s University Hospital. Katherine farmed with Tim while her young family was growing up. She now writes a weekly column in Irish Country Living. Katherine teaches Home Economics in Our Lady of Good Counsel special school in Ballincollig, Co Cork. She is a committed activist for the rights and inclusion of people with disabilities. She is an honorary director of Cope Foundation and a member of the Steering Group of the Transforming Lives Programme. She holds a diploma in Farm Home Management, a certificate in women’s studies, and a higher diploma in Disability Studies – Facilitating Inclusion.
Professor Kathleen Lynch
Kathleen Lynch is the UCD Professor of Equality Studies, She was an Irish Research Council Advanced Research Scholar for 2014-2017 and is a member of the UCD School of Education. She is a founding member of the UCD School of Social Justice and the UCD Equality Studies Centre. An academic and an activist, she is guided by the belief that the purpose of scholarship and research is not just to understand the world but to change it for the good of all humanity. She has published and campaigned widely on equality issues, both nationally and internationally. Her most recent co-authored books include New Managerialism in Education: Commercialisation, Carelessness and Gender (2015 2nd ed.) and Affective Equality: Love, Care and Injustice (2009). The latter has been published in Spanish in 2014 and in Korean 2016.
Tara Wilson
Tara has a business and organisational psychology background. Her passions lie in understanding and supporting new ways of human organisation, towards a more sustainable and compassion future. In the past couple of years, Tara transitioned from Training and Development Director of a large international agri-food business, to an advisor and advocate for purpose-led organisational design and governance.
Peter Cassells
Peter Cassells is Executive Director of the Edward M Kennedy Institute, Maynooth University. He is Deputy Chair of the Governing Body of the University and a member of the Board of the Industrial Development Authority (IDA).
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Peter is a former General Secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and was a lead negotiator on five National Partnership Programmes in the 1990s. He is involved, in a personal capacity, with the IWA and Prosper Fingal.
Rory O'Donnell
Rory O’Donnell is Director of the National Economic and Social Council. He has led NESC analysis on a wide range of economic and social challenges and has written on social partnership and European integration. Work relevant to NFVB include The Developmental Welfare State (2005) and Quality and Standards in Human Services: Disability Services (2012), and Achieving Quality in Ireland’s Human Services: A Synthesis Report (2012). He holds an M.Sc. in economics from the University of London and a PhD from Cambridge.
Pat McLoughlin
Pat Mcloughlin worked as a management consultant prior to becoming Chief Executive of The Alzheimer Society of Ireland. He served on the management teams of four health boards and was Chief Executive of the South Eastern Health Board and Eastern Health Board. He served as the first National Director of the National Hospitals office and Deputy CEO of the HSE.
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He was Chief Executive of the Irish Payment Services Organisation until the introduction of European Payments Formats. He has assisted Government,on a pro bono basis, in reviews of public expenditure,l local government, childcare, health insurance and the Dept of Justice. He has served as Chairman and a member of a number of voluntary organisations.
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Mo Flynn
Mo Flynn has been Rehab Group CEO since 2015, delivering a new strategy across the areas of care, learning and employment for people with disabilities so that they can play an active role in society and live lives of their choosing.
A qualified social worker, with a Master’s degree in Gerontology, Mo has worked in Ireland, the UK and Australia.
In 2001 Mo began working with the Eastern Regional Health Authority as a service planner for older people and people with intellectual disabilities and later as a senior commissioner, before taking on the role of HSE National Care Group Manager (older people).
She was appointed chief executive of Our Lady’s Hospice and Care Services in 2006.
She is a board member of CORU, the regulator for health and social care professionals.
Dr. Ruth Barrington
Dr Ruth Barrington is a member of the Press Council of Ireland. She recently stepped down as a director of the Voluntary Health Insurance Board. She is the Chair of TREOIR, the federation of services for unmarried parents; the Chair of the Council of the National Children’s Research Centre and Chair of the St John of God Research Foundation. She is a director of the Children’s Medical Research Foundation and the Daniel O’Connell Summer School.
Dr Barrington was chief executive of Molecular Medicine Ireland from 2007-2012 and of the Health Research Board from 1998 to 2007. She previously served as an Assistant Secretary in the Department of Health. From 2002 to 2012 she was a governor of The Irish Times Trust, serving as Chair of the Trust from 2010 to 2012. She was a director of the Board of Irish Times Ltd. from 2008-2012.
Joe Wolfe
Joe is Director of The Wolfe Group; an Irish Company which specialises in quality improvement, regulatory compliance and organisational development in Health and Social Care Services. Joe has spent over 30 years in the health and social care sectors, as a front line staff, middle manager, senior manager and Board Director. In latter years, he has focussed in particular in the areas of regulatory compliance, organisational change, governance systems and processes, and management and Board development and improvement.
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Programme
Day 1 - Wednesday, 30th May 2018
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9am - 10am
10.00am
1.30pm
2.30pm
6.30pm
7.30pm
Registration & Tea/Coffee
Welcome Address - Mr. Bernard O'Regan, Chairperson, National Federation of Voluntary Bodies
Rationale, Purpose & Objectives of this event - Mr. Brendan Broderick, CEO, Muiriosa Foundation
Widening the Frame of Accountability: the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with a Disability - Senator John Dolan, CEO, Disability Federation of Ireland
Accountable and Autonomous Governance and Commissioning for Societal Value - Mr. Ivan Cooper, Director of Public Policy, The Wheel
TEA/COFFEE BREAK
A Parent’s Perspective - Mrs. Katherine O’Leary, Parent Representative & Voluntary Board Member
Managerialism’s Market Values: Challenges to Mutual Care & Solidarity in the Voluntary Sector - Professor Kathleen Lynch, Professor of Equality Studies, School of Education, University College Dublin
What’s the Future of Human System Design, and What Can We Learn from it? - Ms. Tara Wilson, Independent Consultant, Orbweb Insight
LUNCH
Address by Minister Finian McGrath - Mr. Finian McGrath, TD, Minister of State with Special Responsibility for Disabilities
Workshop 1
The Evolving Service-Delivery Landscape – Trends, Tensions, Implications
Workshop 2
What Governance Burden is Manageable for Voluntary Boards?
Workshop 3
Governance as Leadership: Accountability Versus Auditability
TEA/COFFEE BREAK
Rethinking Governance in Disability: the False Choice between Autonomy and Accountability - Professor Charles Sabel, Professor of Law & Social Sciences, Columbia Law School, Columbia University, New York
Liberating institutions: turn it the right way up and it will work - Mr. John Burton, Independent Social Care Consultant & Author, UK
Panel Discussion - Chaired by Mr. Peter Cassells, Chair of the Edward M. Kennedy Centre for Conflict Intervention, NUI Maynooth & formerly General Secretary, ICTU
CLOSE
CONFERENCE DINNER
Day 2 - Thursday, 31st May 2018
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9.00am
Reflection on Day 1 & Emerging Themes -
Mr. Rory O’Donnell, Director, National Economic & Social Council & Mr. Peter Cassells, Chair of the Edward M. Kennedy Centre for Conflict Intervention, NUI Maynooth & formerly General Secretary, ICTU
From ‘Comply or Explain’ to ‘Integrated Planning’ - Mr. Pat McLoughlin, CEO, Alzheimer’s Association of Ireland
We can’t have it every which way – Promoting the True Role of the Independent Not-For-Profit Sector in Ireland - Ms. Mo Flynn, CEO, Rehab Group
TEA/COFFEE BREAK
Why Independent Governance Matters – and What this Entails? - Dr Ruth Barrington (Chair/ Board member of a number of charitable organisations)
What I want to say about…..HIQA - Voice Box Video Booth (People with Intellectual Disability have their say)
1.00pm
2.00pm
Finding a Balance Between Autonomy and Accountability in the Governance of Organisations in the Irish Social Care Sector—Dilemmas and Challenges from an Irish Service Perspective - Mr. Joe Wolfe, Director, The Wolfe Group
Questions & Answers
LUNCH
Out with compliance and in with love and creativity - Mr. John Burton, Independent Consultant, UK
4.00pm
From Principles to Practice: Preliminary Thoughts on Doing Things Differently - Professor Charles Sabel, Professor of Law & Social Sciences, Columbia Law School, Columbia University, New York
Panel Discussion “The best way forward”
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