Saturday September 18 ▼

 

1:00 PM

Can local government live without the formula grant?Jurys Inn: Suite 1 Consultation on the Pupil Premium Government proposalsHilton Liverpool: Meeting Room 2 Entering the Coalition: our duty or our demise?Hilton Liverpool: Grace Suite 3 Has the banking crisis strengthened the case for LVT?Hilton Liverpool: Grace Suite 2 The strangling of Bethlehem: is it time for sanctions?Hilton Liverpool: Grace Suite 1

8:00 PM

CCS in your regionHilton Liverpool: Grace Suite 3 Freedom of informationHilton Liverpool: Meeting Room 4/5 Impact of the Immigration Cap on CommunitiesHilton Liverpool: Meeting Room 2 Microgeneration: Cleaner Energy begins at HomeClimate Clinic North East Parliamentary GroupHilton Liverpool: Grace Suite 2 The Future of Higher Education FundingJurys Inn: Suite 8 The poverty challenge: is the coalition delivering fairness?Jurys Inn: Suite 1 The Real Cost of TridentJurys Inn: Suite 6 What now for Green Issues in the Coalition?Hilton Liverpool: Meeting Room 3
 

Sunday September 19 ▼

 

7:15 AM

Banking for the Low-Carbon EconomyClimate Clinic The real cost of indefinite immigration detentionJurys Inn: Suite 9

1:00 PM

Agents and Organisers Association AGMHoliday Inn Express: Britannia 1 Big Society: Power to the People?Hilton Liverpool: Meeting Room 6/7 Child-Friendly Communities: Tackling child poverty locallyJurys Inn: Suite 8 Childcare: what's next for families and the early years?Jurys Inn: Suite 6 Conference Access ForumACC: Hall 10 Fair play for tramsJurys Inn: Suite 1 Girls' Attitudes: What girls and young women really thinkACC: Hall 13 Homes Fit For The Future?Climate Clinic How Can the Coalition build on Social Partnerships?Hilton Liverpool: Meeting Room 1 How motor sport can bring benefit to local communitiesHilton Liverpool: Grace Suite 3 Inventing the Future EconomyACC: Hall 1C Is the Lib-Lab coalition gone forever?Jurys Inn: Suite 3/4/5 LD Christian Forum AGMHilton Liverpool: Meeting Room 8 Lifelong Learning: Balancing Community and Business NeedJurys Inn: Suite 7 Locked-up Potential: Prison ReformHilton Liverpool: Meeting Room 2 London's Transport UpgradeACC: Hall 11A More for less: Improving outcomes for children in careACC: Hall 11C Nuclear decommissioningACC: Hall 4B On the Frontline: Women, Peace and ConflictHilton Liverpool: Meeting Room 3 Question Time: Fees, Funding and Fairness in Higher EducationACC: Riverside Balcony Responsible investment: a key to a sustainable economy?Hilton Liverpool: Boardroom Royal Mail and the new politics: the modernisation agendaACC: Hall 2N Scouts Speak UpHilton Liverpool: Grace Suite 2 TridentJurys Inn: Suite 9 Turkey and her Developing Foreign PolicyACC: Hall 11B Whose food is it anyway?ACC: Hall 14 Will the New CAP fit?ACC: Hall 4A

6:15 PM

Addiction: a recovery revolutionHilton Liverpool: Meeting Room 3 Are we prepared for an ageing society? Join the debateACC: Hall 12 Britain, Europe and a shifting global orderACC: Hall 11A Can a national planning framework help deliver localism?Hilton Liverpool: Grace Suite 2 Can a Robin Hood Tax protect the poor and the planet?Hilton Liverpool: Grace Suite 3 Can aid help poor people hold their leaders to account?Jurys Inn: Suite 7 Christianity and the Lib DemsHilton Liverpool: Meeting Room 8 Cultural CapitalTATE Liverpool: Gallery Café Going local to secure a low carbon futureHoliday Inn Express: Britannia 1 How will we pay for tomorrow's homes?Hilton Liverpool: Meeting Room 6/7 Jobs, social enterprise and the Big SocietyACC: Hall 2N Penhaligon AwardJurys Inn: Suite 9 Place of faith in the Big SocietyHilton Liverpool: Meeting Room 2 Public service reform in an age of cuts: Where next?ACC: Hall 11C Responding to Global Climate ChangeClimate Clinic The Charity Question TimeACC: Hall 4B The Demos Grill: An in-conversationJurys Inn: Suite 6 The Great Repeal ActJurys Inn: Suite 8 The Inaugural Schuman LectureACC: Hall 1B The World at One Fringe Debate: The New Politics?ACC: Hall 4A What are we doing in Afghanistan?Hilton Liverpool: Meeting Room 1 Whose schools are they anyway? The education debateHilton Liverpool: Grace Suite 1

8:00 PM

Beyond the recession: are we entering a new era for housing?ACC: Hall 1C Bus PartnershipsHilton Liverpool: Meeting Room 4/5 Coalition, Cuts and Conservatives: an attractive agenda for the Lib Dems?ACC: Hall 11C Facing the future: innovation, affordability and changeACC: Hall 4B Funding Our Future? How to fund students and universities?ACC: Hall 11A It's Time We Talked About Drug PolicyACC: Hall 1B Liberal Democrats: Greenest government ever?Climate Clinic Making the International Arms Trade Treaty BulletproofHilton Liverpool: Meeting Room 6/7 Pension reform after the crisis: is there still consensus?Jurys Inn: Suite 6 The 2010 election in historical perspectiveHilton Liverpool: Grace Suite 3 The Week AheadACC: Hall 2N Turning the Tide: Stemming the Sexualisation of WomenHilton Liverpool: Meeting Room 8

10:00 PM

Preparing for the futureACC: Hall 3B
 

Monday September 20 ▼

 

7:15 AM

Community not custody: what are the alternatives?ACC: Hall 14 Dods Transport Dialogue FringeACC: Hall 2N Europe's crisis: What role for Britain?ACC: Hall 11A Facing the Future in FaithJurys Inn: Suite 7 Financial services: the next driver for growthJurys Inn: Suite 1 Getting the Work Programme WorkingHoliday Inn Express: Britannia 1 Healthy CompetitionACC: Hall 13 High tech, low cost: Tomorrow's public servicesHilton Liverpool: Meeting Room 8 Investing in families: a roundtable discussionHilton Liverpool: Meeting Room 4/5 Learning to Succeed: Building culture in challenging schoolsHilton Liverpool: Meeting Room 6/7 Making BIG local: how to include the most neglected?Crowne Plaza: Princess Suite 2 Making the right choices for transportJurys Inn: Suite 6 Positive for Youth: Connecting Young People and CommunitiesACC: Hall 6 Protecting businesses and people from floodingHilton Liverpool: Grace Suite 1 The information revolution: How can data liberate the NHS?Hilton Liverpool: Boardroom

1:00 PM

A Fresh Start for ID: Stopping All Underage SalesPanAm Bar: Ground Level A marriage made in heaven? Can the Con-Lib coalition hold?Hilton Liverpool: Grace Suite 1 Ask 2012: Two Years To GoACC: Hall 3B Cable on cuts: the economics of ‘progressive austerity'Hilton Liverpool: Grace Suite 3 Can Health Cuts Be Good For You?Hilton Liverpool: Meeting Room 2 Can overseas holidays be a force for good?Jurys Inn: Suite 10 Can the Liberal Democrats stop the BNP?Jurys Inn: Suite 7 Conflict-affected states: Is it time to rethink development?Jurys Inn: Suite 8 Connecting physical and mental conditions: a healthy economyACC: Hall 10 Delivering the Big societyACC: Hall 4A Digit-all? Young People and Digital ExclusionACC: Hall 6 Fair PayHilton Liverpool: Meeting Room 3 Great ExpectationsJurys Inn: Suite 9 Green jobs: Britain's economic recovery?Climate Clinic Issues of conscience: who decides - politicians or the public?Jurys Inn: Suite 1 Keep Trade LocalJurys Inn: Suite 3/4/5 Less crime, safer communities, fewer people in prisonHilton Liverpool: Meeting Room 6/7 Liberal Democrats and the VotersACC: Hall 12 New nuclearACC: Hall 11A Positive Disruption: Innovation in Public ServicesTATE Liverpool: Hospitality Suite Public Services in a Cold ClimateHilton Liverpool: Grace Suite 2 Saving Britain: Will the UK ever achieve a savings culture?ACC: Hall 8 Science Education: the next deficitACC: Hall 5 Sustaining economic growth through railHilton Liverpool: Meeting Room 4/5 Tackling child poverty in an age of austerityBlue Bar & Grill The Guardian DebateACC: Hall 2L What Do You Think Makes a Good Education?Novotel: Albert Johnston What next for personal debt?Holiday Inn Express: Britannia 2 Where did all the aid go? Lessons for Effective DevelopmentJurys Inn: Suite 6 Working together: North East commitment to economic recoveryACC: Hall 4B

6:15 PM

A class of their own: do admissions favour the well-off?ACC: Hall 11A Agriculture, Food Supply and the CoalitionTATE Liverpool: Gallery Café An industrial policy for the 21stC: engineering growth in UKJurys Inn: Suite 6 Britain: Creative Highway or the End of the Road?TATE Liverpool: Hospitality Suite CareACC: Hall 5 Challenge for Financial ServicesHilton Liverpool: Grace Suite 1 City growth and the new economyPanAm Bar: Ground Level Coalition compromiseACC: Hall 12 Delivering Sustainable Transport in AusterityClimate Clinic Does Local Government have a role in public services?ACC: Hall 4B Equality, Fairness and the Big SocietyACC: Hall 6 Feeding Britain: What Consumers WantACC: Hall 14 From poverty to prosperity? Big business in poor countriesHilton Liverpool: Meeting Room 2 From unemployment to self-employment in an age of austerityACC: Hall 7 Improving outcomes for consumersHoliday Inn Express: Britannia 1 Independent LiveACC: Hall 1B Qué será, seráACC: Hall 4A Scraping the bottom of the barrelHilton Liverpool: Meeting Room 4/5 Should We Fund Social Housing?Hilton Liverpool: Meeting Room 3 Should we have faith in faith schools?Novotel: Albert Johnston Skills for a low carbon futureACC: Hall 2N Tackling child poverty in an age of austerityHilton Liverpool: Meeting Room 1 The Coalition and EuropeJurys Inn: Suite 8 The future of community ownershipHoliday Inn Express: Britannia 2 The new ‘old': Rethinking our ageing societyHilton Liverpool: Grace Suite 2 What the coalition government means for equalityTATE Liverpool: The Auditorium Where now for personalisation?Jurys Inn: Suite 7 Young people and money: sustainable personal financeACC: Hall 13 ‘Face the FACS'Hilton Liverpool: Meeting Room 6/7

8:00 PM

A Nation in the Red? Financial health in the New PoliticsHoliday Inn Express: Britannia 2 Asylum policy: Honouring our refugee protection commitmentsJurys Inn: Suite 8 China: an emerging economy and a progressing countryACC: Hall 11B Democracy and Human Rights in the Developing WorldACC: Hall 11A Elected Police CommissionersHilton Liverpool: Grace Suite 2 Funding the UK's entrepreneurs of the futureACC: Hall 13 Israel / Palestine: is Peace possible?Hilton Liverpool: Meeting Room 6/7 Radical and IndependentACC: Hall 11C Securing the Caucasus: Conflict, energy and opportunitiesJurys Inn: Suite 7 SMF Pub QuizBlue Bar & Grill Social Business, Big Society and Public ServicesACC: Hall 4A The Afghan, Somali ... and me? Engaging in fragile countriesHilton Liverpool: Meeting Room 4/5 The scientific centuryHilton Liverpool: Grace Suite 1 The urban challengeACC: Hall 1C Welfare Reform: dynamic benefitsHilton Liverpool: Meeting Room 3 Where will the jobs come from? Growth, fairness and good workACC: Hall 14

9:00 PM

A funny thing happened on the way to Number 10Hilton Liverpool: Grace Suite 3

9:45 PM

The Energy Ticking Time-bombJurys Inn: Suite 6
 

Tuesday September 21 ▼

 

7:15 AM

Health / Economy / WorkforceHilton Liverpool: Meeting Room 6/7 Who should pay for skills?Jurys Inn: Suite 3/4/5

7:45 AM

From House to Home: Supporting Young People and FamiliesACC: Hall 6

8:00 AM

A creative recoveryACC: Hall 13 A manufacturing-led economic recovery: the government's roleACC: Hall 2N Remodelling financial services: The role of mutualsHilton Liverpool: Grace Suite 3 Staying ConnectedHilton Liverpool: Boardroom

1:00 PM

A Better Way: Can we get back to ethical retail banking?Hilton Liverpool: Meeting Room 3 Afghanistan, PakistanHoliday Inn Express: Britannia 1 Big choices in tough timesACC: Hall 4A Britain's Pensions SystemACC: Hall 14 Can the market provide economic equality for women?Hilton Liverpool: Grace Suite 3 Can we afford the railways?ACC: Hall 2N Dealing with the deficitPanAm Bar: Ground Level Digitising Britain's Economy: The Way ForwardJurys Inn: Suite 9 Don't Miss the Mobile Broadband Bus!Kensington Community Learning Centre, The Mobile Broadband Bus Energy for tomorrow: how to deliver a low carbon futureHilton Liverpool: Meeting Room 6/7 England's schools: a free for all?ACC: Hall 3B How can financial services work in the public interest?ACC: Hall 12 Investment, innovation and jobs in the low-carbon transitionHilton Liverpool: Grace Suite 2 Libel laws stifle debate: will the coalition stop the chill?ACC: Hall 2L Liberating Creativity in a time of austerityACC: Hall 1B Local government / health: working together for older peopleJurys Inn: Suite 6 Lord Ashdown speaks on ‘Grimond's legacy in the Big Society'Holiday Inn Express: Britannia 2 Making social mobility happenNovotel: Pacific More for Less: Can healthcare reform save money and lives?Hilton Liverpool: Meeting Room 8 Public transport: being green when we are in the red?Hilton Liverpool: Meeting Room 1 Rainforests: Protecting Species and Climate?Climate Clinic Reducing late presentation of HIV, launch of a new campaignACC: Hall 4B Smarter spending for better careACC: Hall 11B Solutions to Britain's Toxic CocktailHilton Liverpool: Meeting Room 2 Taxing times: a role for tax in international development?Hilton Liverpool: Grace Suite 1 The future for local jobsACC: Hall 13 The Liberal Democrats take on the Big SocietyACC: Hall 3A The Policing FringeACC: Hall 11A The role of private capital in fuelling economic recoveryJurys Inn: Suite 3/4/5 Trust and Openness in the NHS: From Paternalism to PartnershipACC: Hall 11C Truth about trade: Igniting or impeding African developmentNovotel: Albert Johnston What's Youth Got To Do With It: engaging the next generationJurys Inn: Suite 1 Will Schools Have Too Much Freedom in a Big Society?Jurys Inn: Suite 7 Work, childcare, caring: women carry the cutsACC: Hall 7

6:15 PM

A lifetime of discrimination and welfare benefitsACC: Hall 12 Are our banks doing enough to support UK businesses?Novotel: Pacific BBC Live Radio Broadcast with World Have Your SayACC: Hall 11A Divided Britain: Back to the North-South Divide?Hilton Liverpool: Meeting Room 3 Driving economic recovery: the core citiesHilton Liverpool: Grace Suite 1 Energy Future: Lean or Green?Climate Clinic Gaza life support: Is aid a failure of politics?Jurys Inn: Suite 1 Growing a Civil Economy through Civil SocietyHoliday Inn Express: Britannia 1 How can the coalition government provide affordable housing?Holiday Inn Express: Britannia 2 Is there room in the Coalition for unions?ACC: Hall 4A Keeping Child Protection a Top Priority for the GovernmentACC: Hall 14 Keynote AddressHilton Liverpool: Meeting Room 6/7 New housing: zero-carbon targets and our lifestylesACC: Hall 2N Not Business as Usual: A New Approach to Public ServicesNovotel: Albert Johnston Pills or progress: improving healthcare in AfricaACC: Hall 13 Saving welfareJurys Inn: Suite 8 The Big Green Society?Hilton Liverpool: Meeting Room 1 The Commission on OwnershipJurys Inn: Suite 7 The Liberty Fringe 2010: Common Values in OfficeACC: Hall 3B The Observer InterviewACC: Hall 2L Who Runs UK Plc? Why We Need to Reform Corporate GovernanceHilton Liverpool: Meeting Room 2 Working in partnership to reach older and disabled people: the Help Scheme story so farACC: Riverside Balcony

8:00 PM

An ‘In Conversation' interview with a senior Lib DemACC: Hall 12 Delivering community politicsJurys Inn: Suite 3/4/5 Finding their way: Young people, education, work and lifeHoliday Inn Express: Britannia 2 Green Liberal Democrats AGMHoliday Inn Express: Britannia 1 Kashmir its future in a LibDems / Conservative CoalitionACC: Hall 11B Localism in ActionACC: Hall 4B Making Transport Localism a realityACC: Hall 4A NUT Fish and Chips Supper ReceptionHilton Liverpool: Grace Suite Retrofit Revolution: Housing and the Green Investment BankJurys Inn: Suite 1 Should I Stay or Should I Go? Development and MigrationACC: Hall 13 The DIY Generation: Education 2.0Hilton Liverpool: Meeting Room 4/5 The forgotten 8 millionHilton Liverpool: Meeting Room 3 Tourism: Its Importance to the UK EconomyJurys Inn: Suite 8 What is the Lib Dem vision for international development?ACC: Hall 11A What will the Coalition's school reforms mean for SEN?ACC: Hall 14 When everything is Auschwitz, you deny the HolocaustJurys Inn: Suite 6 Who cares? Who pays? The future funding of social careHilton Liverpool: Meeting Room 2 Whose recovery is it anyway? Public v private sector jobsACC: Hall 3B Working well? The Liberal Democrats' big ideas for welfareACC: Hall 11C
 

Wednesday September 22 ▼

 

7:15 AM

Facing the Future in FaithJurys Inn: Suite 3 Subsidising the green revolutionJurys Inn: Suite 1 Trust in Financial ServicesACC: Hall 7

1:00 PM

A British bill of rights: is the coalition getting it right?ACC: Hall 11B Defending the defendersACC: Hall 13 Is Britain being left behind in Kurdistan and Iraq?ACC: Hall 4B Local Authorities leading and driving the Localism AgendaJurys Inn: Suite 6 Looking to the FutureACC: Hall 7 No Let-Up on SkillsJurys Inn: Suite 3/4/5 Paying for careACC: Hall 11A Playing for a better futureJurys Inn: Suite 7 Political Reform ... in the dragon's den!ACC: Hall 11C The Future for the LGPS and other Public Sector PensionsACC: Hall 14 The future of renewablesACC: Hall 3B The Public Services DebateACC: Hall 12 Tolerating the intolerantACC: Hall 4A