The English Community Care Association (ECCA) is delighted to announce that David Behan, the Department of Health’s Director General of Social Care, has agreed to deliver the keynote speech at this year’s ECCA conference.

This completes the speaker line-up, which also includes Paul Allen, Chief Executive of the Abbeyfield Society, Liz McSheehy, Chief Executive of the National Skills Academy, and Professor Alistair Burns, National Clinical Director for Dementia

Under the title ‘For better or for worse?’, the Conference will take a close look at integrated commissioning – and ask whether health and social care can ever be happily married!  The event will take place on Wednesday, 17 November, at the Holiday Inn, Bloomsbury, London WC1.

Interactive workshops and seminars during the afternoon session will cover a range of business and care-related topics – designed to provide both practical advice and to help Care Services to develop their own strategies for effective care provision in a time of financial restraint.  The Conference will also feature an exhibition of products and services from leading sector suppliers.

ECCA is the largest representative body for community care in 

England. Working on behalf of small, medium and large providers, it  

strives to ensure that care services are commissioned fairly, efficiently and on a properly funded basis – to meet the true costs of providing appropriate care.

BOOK YOUR ECCA =CONFERENCE PLACE NOW

To book a conference place, visit the ECCA website at: http:// www.ecca.org.uk

E-mail: conference@ecca.org.uk.  Or call 08450 577677