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BREAKFAST BRIEFING with Sir Martin Narey, Ministerial Advisor on Adoption and Chair of the National Adoption Leadership Board About Sir Martin Narey In his role as Ministerial Advisor on Adoption, Sir Martin advises the UK government about adoption and other children’s issues, including the reform of social work education. In 2005 Sir Martin Narey became Chief Executive of Barnardo’s UK, during which time he chaired The Campaign To End Child Poverty, and saw Barnardo’s grow by 40% to become, once again, the UK’s biggest children’s charity. Since leaving Barnardo’s, he was then commissioned by The Times to write a major report on adoption. Prior to this, Sir Martin Narey began training to be a prison governor working at a number of prisons before moving into a succession of Whitehall posts. This period included work on timeliness in the criminal justice system and led to the introduction of the so-called “Narey Courts” which succeeded in significantly reducing court delays. He became Director General of The Prison Service of England and Wales and also managed the Probation Service as Home Office Permanent Secretary. At this time, he was the government's principal advisor on criminal and sentencing policy. In 2003 he became the first CEO of the National Offender Management Service. During this period he received the Chartered Institute of Management’s Gold Medal for Leadership, the first public sector recipient of this single annual award for ten years. Event Overview This event is aimed at government and NGO Executive Directors and CEOs wanting to learn how the UK became leaders in adoption reform. The presentation will also be of interest to social work academics and members of the judiciary who will learn how stakeholders tackled the challenges they faced as part of the reform process. 7:30 Welcome and Breakfast 7:45 Presentation by Sir Martin Narey on ‘Challenges in rejuvenating adoption in England after decades of sustained decline’ 8:45 Q&A 9:00 Close DATE & TIME RSVP Tuesday 10 th November 2015 Sydney [email protected] by This event is part of National Adoption Awareness Week (8 th -14 th November 2015). More information can be found on the Adopt Change website.
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BREAKFAST BRIEFING with Sir Martin Narey, Ministerial Advisor on Adoption and Chair of the National Adoption Leadership Board About Sir Martin Narey In his role as Ministerial Advisor on Adoption, Sir Martin advises the UK government about adoption and other children’s issues, including the reform of social work education. In 2005 Sir Martin Narey became Chief Executive of Barnardo’s UK, during which time he chaired The Campaign To End Child Poverty, and saw Barnardo’s grow by 40% to become, once again, the UK’s biggest children’s charity. Since leaving Barnardo’s, he was then commissioned by The Times to write a major report on adoption. Prior to this, Sir Martin Narey began training to be a prison governor working at a number of prisons before moving into a succession of Whitehall posts. This period included work on timeliness in the criminal justice system and led to the introduction of the so-called “Narey Courts” which succeeded in significantly reducing court delays. He became Director General of The Prison Service of England and Wales and also managed the Probation Service as Home Office Permanent Secretary. At this time, he was the government's principal advisor on criminal and sentencing policy. In 2003 he became the first CEO of the National Offender Management Service. During this period he received the Chartered Institute of Management’s Gold Medal for Leadership, the first public sector recipient of this single annual award for ten years. Event Overview This event is aimed at government and NGO Executive Directors and CEOs wanting to learn how the UK became leaders in adoption reform. The presentation will also be of interest to social work academics and members of the judiciary who will learn how stakeholders tackled the challenges they faced as part of the reform process. 7:30 Welcome and Breakfast 7:45 Presentation by Sir Martin Narey on ‘Challenges in rejuvenating adoption in England after decades of
sustained decline’ 8:45 Q&A 9:00 Close
DATE & TIME RSVP
Tuesday 10th November 2015 Sydney
This event is part of National Adoption Awareness Week (8th-14th November 2015). More information can be found
on the Adopt Change website.
