Here is the program:
Thursday 25th May
Welcome to Conference, Kieran FitzGerald, Ombudsman
Association Chair
Key Note: Taking the time to reflect, Linnea Gandhi and
Tom Blaser, and a presentation from Peter Tyndall, President of the
International Ombudsman Institute
Lunch
Plenary Session: Being customer focused, Caroline Wayman,
Financial Ombudsman Service
Workshop Sessions A
- Measuring performance
- Increasing impact
- Listening to customers: improving frontline services
- Consistency in casework: quality assurance
- Apples, pears and oranges: comparing and raising standards, Chris Gill & Naomi Creutzfeldt
Dinner
After Dinner Speaker: Sir Emyr Jones Parry, Former UK
Ambassador to the United Nations, Permanent Representative to NATO, and
Political Director of the Foreign Office
Friday 26th May
Workshop Sessions B
- Vulnerability defining and recognizing, Cosmo Graham, University of Leicester
- Ombudsman Ethics
- Making services more accessible
- Consistency in casework: quality assurance
- Mental health: user engagement, Mark Hashimi, Mind
- Data Protection: changing landscape, Information Commissioner’s
- Incorporating Human Rights, Equality & Human Rights Commission
- Measuring performance
- Increasing impact
Plenary Session: Creating the culture to succeed, Carolyn
Hirst, Queen Margaret University, and Mick King, Local Government Ombudsman
Closing address
Registration for the conference is now open. (OA 2017 Conf Info.)
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