State Hospital
Carstairs
Lanark
ML11 8RP
Committee
Chair Raj Darjee
Vice Chair Julie Jessop
NEC Rep Janie Watson
Secretary Stuart Allardyce
Treasurer Ray Jones
Colin Christie
Susan Forsyth
Martin Henry
Sarah Longe
Ewan Lundie
Willie Manson
Robert Patterson
Katharine Russell
Amelia Wilson
JOINT CONFERENCE
LEARNING DISABILITIES/NATIONAL ORGANISATION FOR THE TREATMENT OF ABUSERS (NOTA)
Friday 02 March 2012, SPS College, Polmont
Programme and workshop details
To book a place CLICK HERE
Enquiries and further information, contact: Sharon Bruce, Forensic Network Administrator
Tel: 01555 842018 email: sharon.bruce@nhs.net
NOTA Scotland – Annual Conference
SPSCollege, Polmont
DATE FOR YOUR DIARY 03rd& 04thMay 2012
CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
David Thornton
‘Implications of neuroscience findings for the assessment & treatment of offenders’
Treatment Director at the Sand Ridge Secure Treatment Centre Mauston, Wisconsin
Gary O’Reilly
‘Working with adolescents who sexually abuse & their families’
Senior Lecturer/Deputy Director, School of Psychology, University of Dublin
Ethel Quayle
‘Abuse images and their role in online grooming’
Clinical Psychologist, Edinburgh University
Dawn Harris& Elizabeth Hayes
‘Navigating the Winds of Change: A New Programme of Intervention for Sex Offenders in Scotland’
Chartered Forensic Psychologist, Harris Howard & Expert Advisor Scottish Government, Community Justice Division
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
The NOTA Scotland Committee is pleased to invite you to participate in this Annual Conference. We are looking to encourage a 1.5hr or 3hr workshop or seminar. If you would like to submit an abstract outlining your proposal please contact Louise Burns (louise.burns@nhs.net) for a submission form.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Deadline: Friday 30th December 2011
Committee Review: Friday 13th January 2012
Notification of Acceptance: Friday 20th January 2012
This event is support by the Forensic Network
www.forensicnetwork.scot.nhs.uk
Activities
The NOTA Scotland Branch seeks to promote the aims of NOTA in Scotland. The Committee brings together people from the various agencies involved in working with sexual offenders in Scotland and the branch activities have a strong multi-agency focus.
We hold a 2 day annual conference in April. Key note speakers at our conferences over the last three years have included some of the leading international experts in the field including, Bill Marshall, Liam Marshall, Ruth Mann, Don Grubin, Ethel Quayle, Karl Hanson, Simon Hackett, Tony Wards, Tony Beech and Geris Serran.
We hold an AGM in late August or early September which is a day’s event with workshops. This year the AGM is on 27 August 2010 at the Stirling Management Centre and will be an all-day workshop by David Briggs on ‘Family Re-unification’. Further details will be available soon.
We have also started to hold other events focussing on specific areas. In June 2009 we had a joint meeting with the Forensic Network on Sexual Offending and Mental Health, and at the end of this year we are planning an event focussed on young people.
Along with the Forensic Network we are hosting a Practitioners’ Forum. This aims to provide a place for practitioners from various agencies who work with sexual abusers to meet to discuss practice, research and service developments and to look at difficult and complex issues that arise in the work that people do. Further information on the Practitioners’ Forum will be available soon.