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Annual Conference 07
LGA supporting councils in:
driving stronger performance - making services
accountable - putting people in charge
ON THE
CAMPAIGN TOWN
shopping sightseeing
INNOVATIONS and eating out
ways to win on the web
From homes for all to more jobs, local government has the answers. Councils are the only part
of the public sector with a proven track record in driving up performance and giving local peo-
ple a voice. The government should give councils more powers to solve problems in complex
areas. WHAT’S ON WHEN
Conference timetable and full fringe listings
• For housing: councils are ready to tackle the shortage of housing and are keen to work
closely with government to make more affordable social housing a reality.
• For economic properity: councils need the right economic levers if all our cities are to
match London and our best European counterparts.
• For health: councils can ensure value for money by taking the lead on arranging health care
and organising preventative care and services.
• For young people: central and local government both want to ensure young people receive
Bournemouth 23 – 27 September
proper opportunities to make something of their lives.
MEET THE TEAM
“It is right that local councils, not Whitehall, should have more power over the things that matter to
their community and from economic regeneration to public transport, the empowerment and strength-
ening of local councils and local communities is what we must now do."
Guide to new faces in Gordon’s first cabinet
Conference
Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP
For further information contact LGconnect on 020 7664 3131 or visit our website at www.lga.gov.uk
Bournemouth 23 – 27 September
0351_07 Reproduced from the Labour Party website, labour.org.uk. Promoted by Peter Watt, General Secretary, the Labour Party, on behalf
of the Labour Party both at 39 Victoria Street, London SW1H 0HA.
Contents A message from the
General Secretary
Conference activity
goes on both inside and
outside the hall, virtually
round the clock – worried
Welcome to Conference 3 you might miss something?
Join Team Labour 6
Campaign innovations 8 We hope this guide will help. This year
A message from Harriet Harman 11 it’s in a smaller format to make it easier
Campaign focus 12 to carry around with you, and includes
Renewing party democracy 14 useful information about every aspect
Opposition watch 17 of our Conference in Bournemouth,
The new team 20 whether you’re attending as a delegate,
Winning on the web 22 visitor or exhibitor, and whether you’re
Campaign training workshops 24 a first-timer or an old hand.
Back to the beach 26
Bournemouth’s best bites 28 As well as the official timetable, this
Labour Party stand 31 booklet also includes comprehensive
For your security 32 fringe listings, a guide to the
Conference timetable 34 exhibitions, maps of the town and
Exclusive offers for Labour members 38 venue and advice on where to shop and
Labour’s green credentials 41 what to eat.
A-Z of useful information 43
Island site map 46 Of course, as well as all this useful
Computer training at Conference 48 information, we also include political
Fringe listings 51 messages from our new Leadership
Party event listings 135 team of Gordon Brown and Harriet
Exhibitors listings 141 Harman, plus information about our
Exhibition information 152 campaigns, and resources available for
Best stand competition 152 local parties to use.
BIC floor plans 154
Town plan with fringe venues Back cover Whatever capacity you’re attending
Conference in, I hope this guide will
Photo credits: C.Smith/Silverfish, Gus Cambpell, Photos.com,
help you make the most of the time
Bournemouth Borough Council, The Labour Party you spend in Bournemouth.
Best regards
Peter Watt
General Secretary
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Welcome to Conference
Towards a
first class
education
system
Education can help set free individuals and
whole groups of people.
Welcome to Conference
from Gordon Brown
protect and extend the British way of life.
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Welcome to Conference
UNITE SENDS GREETINGS TO ALL DELEGATES
ATTENDING THE LABOUR PARTY CONFERENCE
But we know that while the British people “I urge all who
are increasingly politically interested,
joining pressure groups and campaigning share our values to
on local and global issues, traditional party
political activity has never been so low. join us in making
So just as in the past we renewed our party Britain the country
in preparation for government, now the
new circumstances we face mean we must it can be”
reform our party again. This time of change
must also be a time for renewal. What drew the British people to new
Labour in the 1990’s was that we would
give priority to the needs of hard working
“I believe that families – and this must drive all our
decisions now and in the future.
it is time to
By seeking as party members to engage
fundamentally more with the public, we can usher in a
new era of participation where Labour is
reform the way we renewed, speaking to and reflecting the
concerns and aspirations of the British
the Labour Party people.
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Join Team Labour
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Join Team Labour
What else can I do? • five points for recruiting a friend to Team
In future you’ll also be able to use your Labour
Team Labour Action Centre to: • one point for printing off a resource or
e–mailing a poster to a friend.
• Call members from home and ask them to
sign up to a Team Labour event or activity Rewards will be delivered to members and
• call key seat voters from your own home local parties who have accrued most points:
• write a letter to the local newspaper • Top activists will be invited to special
• campaign for Labour online. events e.g. with senior politicians
• CLPs can trade points for campaign
Why should I join Team Labour? materials in our online shop.
As well as the satisfaction you’ll gain
from knowing that you’re helping Labour What’s happened so far?
win you can also earn points by getting We’ve held two national campaign days so
involved in Team Labour. far this year, in July and September, and
we’ve seen hundreds of members from
You get: across the country sign up to Team Labour
• 20 points for every session in a key seat and get involved in events in every single
• five points for every session in your own marginal seat.
seat
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Campaign innovations
Campaign innovations
Over the past year we’ve launched Interactive Web
new products to help elected
representatives and local parties
Creator
Interactive Web Creator,
campaign more effectively. Thousands
the party’s online
of members are already using them,
communications tool,
so read on to find out more – or
is helping hundreds of
visit the Labour Party Stand for live
elected representatives and local parties to
demonstrations.
campaign effectively online.
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Campaign innovations
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Welcome to Conference
Meeting the
carbon challenge:
reality or rhetoric?
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Harriet Harman
A message from
Harriet Harman
We meet in Bournemouth for our 2007
Annual Conference in good spirit; proud of
what we have achieved after ten years in
government, and confident as we face the
challenges ahead.
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Campaign focus
Campaign focus
When he became Leader and Prime Minister, Gordon Brown also appointed six
party vice–chairs to work with Harriet Harman, the NEC and the party. The vice–
chairs would like to introduce themselves and tell you a little more about their
roles and the work they will be doing in the future.
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Welcome to Conference
AT La
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igning for
Camp e.
u l u m c h a n g
curric
ATL, the UK’s fastest growing education union, is leading the debate to radically overhaul the
National Curriculum.
ATL believes the curriculum should specify the wide range of skills young people need to lead
successful lives, and leave the detail of the exact content to be decided locally.
In too many schools, the present curriculum and constant testing puts pressure on children,
makes them anxious and stressed, and sets many up to fail. Schools should be nurturing learning
environments where pupils can learn and develop the skills they need for life.
To find out more about ATL’s campaign for curriculum change, come and meet us on stand P38
in the Purbeck Hall, and test your own skills to win a fantastic prize!
www.atl.org.uk
For more information visit www.atl.org.uk or call 020 7930Annual
6441 Conference
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Teachers and Lecturers
Renewing party democracy
Renewing party
democracy
“I want a policy This is how Gordon Brown set out his
proposals for renewing and extending
making process party democracy. He set a challenge to all
of us, to ensure our policy making remains
that honours relevant and rooted in our communities.
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Renewing party democracy
MPs, Ministers and members of the local communities. Winning a fourth term
National Policy Forum all have a role in depends on our ability to stay connected to
initiating and leading debates. the communities we represent.
To help stimulate debate, the NPF second Conference delegates will have the
year consultation documents were sent to opportunity to have their say. All six
local parties in August. These documents documents will shape the debate on
produced by the six policy commissions set conference floor throughout the week.
out the key challenges and ask have we got And in delegate-only closed sessions,
them right, or are there other issues the senior ministers will debate and discuss
commissions should focus on before the policy issues raised in the documents.
next, final year documents are produced? These sessions will be held on Monday
These documents are part of our three 4.15pm-5.30pm, Tuesday 9am-10.30am
year policy development cycle and all and Wednesday 4.15pm-5.30pm. Check the
build towards our next manifesto. So it is conference arrangements report for more
vital local parties have their say and take details.
the opportunity to feed in the views of
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Welcome to Conference
the largest union representing teachers and headteachers throughout the UK
NASUWT
MAKING STATE EDUCATION
THE SECTOR OF CHOICE
To secure state education as the sector of choice, the NASUWT is
campaigning for:
G the establishment of clear agreed national strategy for the involvement
Opposition watch
David Cameron’s retreat He is now caving in on housing too.
At the beginning of his leadership, David
to the right Cameron said he would stand up to old Tory
NIMBYism on house building. Yet now, Tory
Just like John Major and William Hague frontbenchers and backbenchers alike are
before him, David Cameron is being forced opposing building the new homes we need
to shift further and further to the right in to put affordable housing within the reach
order to shore up his own position. For the of hard-working families across the country,
dwindling band of Tory moderates left in without a word from the Tory leader.
the Conservative Party, this is depressingly
familiar. And on that biggest Tory totem of all
– unfunded tax cuts – Shadow Chancellor
The grammar schools row demonstrated George Osborne has been leading the
the limits and superficiality of the changes retreat. After the Tories initially said that
David Cameron had been making. David upfront tax cuts would be a ‘mistake’
Cameron’s response was not to stand firm ‘ridiculous’, ‘wrong’ ‘ineffective’ and
and strong for change, but to cave in to the ‘irresponsible’ George Osborne is now
rightwingers in his party. proposing cuts to stamp duty on shares,
inheritance tax, corporation tax and stamp
Weakened by the grammar schools revolt, duty on property.
in order to shore up his own position, David
Cameron has stopped his attempts at The new tunes have been replaced by
modernisation and has reverted to the old the old. The glib PR and slick marketing
themes of the Tory right. techniques are still there but are now
being used to dress up the same old Tory
They have returned to their obsession with positions on grammar schools, Europe,
Europe and a European referendum building transferable tax allowances, NIMBYism
on their pledge to quit the European and tax.
People’s Party.
This Conference will show that Labour
David Cameron has reverted to regressive is the party with the ideas and values to
transferable tax allowances – a policy prepare Britain for the challenges of the
advocated by John Redwood in 1995, future. In contrast, the Tories are caught
John Major in 1997 and William Hague in between what they think they should say
2001. On this issue it is the rightwingers and what they really believe. This retreat to
who he chooses to side with, and against the right shows that under David Cameron’s
moderate Tories in the Conservative Party, leadership they are unwilling to face up to
who described the proposal as ‘bizarre’, the change in policy and values they need
‘detrimental’, and ‘a thoroughly bad idea’. to make.
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The Politics of Born Identity: Participation
Persuasion: Britishness and Rewired: Can we
Winning over the belonging in today’s have real democratic
21st century voter Britain renewal?
Speakers: Speakers: Speakers:
Anthony Giddens Rt Hon Hazel Blears MP Vera Baird QC MP
House of Lords Secretary of State for Communities Solicitor General
John Lloyd and Local Government Jim Knight MP
Reuters Institute for the Yasmin Alibhai-Brown Minister of State
Study of Journalism The Independent (Schools and Learners) (tbc)
Jackie Ashley Prof Michael Keith Bobbie Johnson
The Guardian Goldsmith’s College, The Guardian
Catherine Fieschi University of London Catherine Fieschi
Demos (Chair) Rachel Briggs Demos (Chair)
Demos (Chair)
Monday 24th September Wednesday 26th September
07.30 - 09.00 Tuesday 25th September, 12.45 - 14.00
Highcliffe Sherbourne 07.30 - 09.00 Highcliffe
Breakfast provided. Highcliffe Shaftesbury Blandford
Breakfast provided. Lunch provided.
www.demos.co.uk
– the
Campaigning Union
Visit our web site for some great campaign ideas
v
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The new team
full of new faces and people David Willetts, the man who the next year, focusing on
with different experiences set out the Tories’ policy on Britain’s housing needs;
from different backgrounds – grammar schools, only to world class education and
from the worlds of business, see his Leader cave to the skills; looking after children
defence and diplomacy. Tory Right and perform a in care; improving health and
u-turn on the issue. social care; protecting the
Gordon Brown’s fresh new What does the future hold security and safety of the
team has set out an exciting for Labour’s new team? British people; giving more
agenda for change in the Gordon Brown has already power to parliament and in
future, with significant set out his initial plans turn to the people it serves;
policy announcements on for the future in a draft tackling climate change;
housing, health, education legislative programme delivering welfare reform;
and many others. Contrast – another innovation brought addressing local transport
this with David Cameron, in by the new government. needs; and supporting
whose own re-shuffle saw In that statement he set business.
him sack his ‘modernising’ out a consultation on the
Party Chair and demote priorities for legislation over That’s quite an agenda for
the new team to deliver.
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Winning on the web
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Winning on the web
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Campaign training
Campaign training
workshops and events
Throughout this year’s Annual Tue 25 September
Conference, there are a range of 10 – 11.30am
training sessions open to members. Women into Parliament
Book your sessions at the Labour Party Are you seriously interested in standing for
Stand in the conference exhibition or in parliament this time around?
advance of conference at Then this is the session for you. An
labour.org.uk/membersnet advanced level workshop offering guidance
and information for women determined to
Mon 24 September be Labour candidates at the next General
10 – 11.30am Election.
Keeping Control - holding onto power in
a Labour controlled council 12 – 1.30pm
This course is for Labour councillors, council Towards the next General Election
candidates and party activists who are This session will set out Labour’s strategy
currently in control of their council - either for the next General Election. We will cover
outright control or in coalition. It will effective campaigning techniques and how
include advice from councillors who have to target different voters and provide an
held onto power through difficult electoral opportunity to share best practice from
cycles by not only delivering quality across the country.
services for their residents but using the
latest communications techniques to out 2 – 3.30pm
campaign our opposition in the press, on Campaigning against an opposition
the ground and in the council chamber. council
This session looks at effective strategies
2.30 - 6pm for campaigns against opposition run
Introduction to Contact Creator and new councils. Come along to share ideas and
voter ID questions look at examples from across the country.
This session will look at why the party is
replacing Labour.Contact, with a new voter 4 – 5.30pm
database system which will be accessible Campaigning with new media
over the internet, and changing the voter Online campaigning is already important
ID questions we use. and will only become even more so.
Research in the US showed that 40 per
cent of voters used the internet to find out
more about political parties and politicians
at the last election. However, just putting
your site on the internet isn’t enough. This
session will cover techniques to help you
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Campaign training
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Bournemouth
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Bournemouth
The centre of town is bisected by the valley on pages 28 and 29 for recommendations.
formed by the Bourne Stream, flowing
through the Lower Gardens and into the Bournemouth is great for shopping, with
sea at the Pier. One side is West Cliff, the the town centre just a short walk from the
other East Cliff, with quite a steep walk in Conference island site. You’ll find familiar
between – so if you end up on the wrong High Street shops on the West Cliff side,
side you may be tempted to get a taxi back! including Debenhams and Marks & Spencer
as well as lots of smaller stores in the
Bournemouth has long shaken off Avenue Shopping Centre.
its sedate image as a resort for posh
pensioners, and offers a great variety Head for the East Cliff for more exclusive
of nightlife, from fashionable bars and fashion shops, as well as loads of delis,
nightclubs to traditional pubs, and live jewellers and quirky independent boutiques
music venues offering everything from jazz and gift shops.
to indie.
More information from
Over 250 restaurants, bistros and cafes bournemouth.co.uk, or call Visitor
offer a great choice of eating out in every Information on 01202 451 700.
speciality and price range – see our feature
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Eating out
Bournemouth’s
best bites
Restaurants featured 5-10 MINUTES’ WALK has a varied menu, excellent
on these pages are cocktails and a special
just a small selection Indian Ocean (Indian) Sunday Jazz lunch.
of hundreds in £ Exeter Road, BN2 5AG
Bournemouth. For a full No flock wallpaper here ..... eighteen-twelve.com
listing of restaurants, modern decor, extensive 01202 438 000
pubs and inns check menu and excellent value.
bournemouth.co.uk 4 West Cliff Road, BN2 5EY West Beach (Fish)
indianoceanrestaurant.co.uk £££
01202 311 222 Right on the seafront, West
Beach has an extensive
Ocean Palace (Chinese) menu specialising in locally-
£ caught fish
Peking and Szechuan Pier Approach, BH2 5AA
banquets on rotating table- west-beach.co.uk
tops, good-value set menus 01202 587 785
- ideal for groups.
8 Priory Road, BN2 5DG 15-20 MINUTES’ WALK
They are arranged by oceanpalace.co.uk
proximity to the island site 01202 559 127 Ciao (Italian)
assuming you are on foot; £
‘further afield’ entries are Aruba (modern Modern, bistro-style venue
no more than a 10-minute international) offering first-class pasta,
taxi ride. All have disabled ££ pizza and contemporary
access and feature some Revamped ‘Show Bar’ Italian dishes.
vegetarian dishes – but does breakfasts, snacks 144 Old Christchurch Road,
please call ahead if you have and meals, plus a tropical BH1 1NL
specific requirements or cocktail bar, with DJs and ciaobournemouth.co.uk
food allergies. live music at night. Open 01202 555 657
9am till 2am.
Pier Approach BH2 5AA Coriander (Mexican)
Key aruba-bournemouth.co.uk ££
Average two-course meal 01202 554 211 Popular, long-established
(starter and main course): restaurant (Kinnock ate
£ – under £15 1812 (contemporary) here in 1985) with a
££ – £15-25 ££ party atmosphere, great
£££ – £25+ In the Exeter Hotel just over vegetarian options, and
the road from the BIC, 1812 cocktails by the jugful.
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Eating out
Langtrys (English)
£££
In the Langtry Manor Hotel, FURTHER AFIELD Romanzo (Greek)
built by Edward VII for £
mistress Lillie Langtry. Basilica Cafe-Restaurant Friendly, good-value
Period dining room, candles, (European) restaurant with wide
and six-course banquet on ££ selection of traditional
Saturdays! Quality, locally-sourced greek dishes.
Langtry Manor, ingredients, well-cooked. 87 Poole Road
Derby Road, Open all day from breakfast BN4 9BB
BH1 3QB through lunch and afternoon 01202 761 070
langtrysrestaurant.co.uk tea to dinner.
01202 553 887 73 Seamoor Road The Salad Centre
BH4 9AE (Vegetarian)
basilica.biz £
01202 757722 Vegetarian wholefood
restaurant, wide range of
Gilbeys (contemporary hot and cold meals, snacks
British) and afternoon teas.
£££ thesaladcentre.co.uk
Family-run establishment; 01202 393 673
excellent food and good Resta
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wine list in calm, elegant
locati rant
surroundings. marke ons
Liston Hotel,
in fold d on plan
5 Wollstonecraft Road, o
BH5 1JQ cover ut back
of t
gilbeysrestaurant.co.uk guide his
01202 394588 .
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Recycling at Conference
Labour’s recycling
partner for Conference
SITA UK is proud to be the Labour Party’s
recycling partner for the 2007 Annual
Conference. We’re providing the recycling
facilities in the Bournemouth International
Centre to encourage as much recycling as
possible during the week.
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Labour Party stand
Welcome to Conference
Every year the Conference Arrangements Committee liaises with the police over the
safety of everyone attending conference.
We want the security to be as unobtrusive as possible but do have to ensure that our
democratic discussions are not disrupted and the safety of all attendees in ensured.
Clearly the police work is underway long before conference but security during the week
is not something they can do alone. Vigilance is the most effective weapon against
terrorism, with all of us acting as the police force’s eyes and ears.
So if you do see anybody acting in a suspicious way, please report this to a Labour Party
steward or police officer straight away. If you cannot see anyone to speak to call the
police on the anti-terrorist hotline 0800 789 321 or directly to the Dorset Police on
01202 222222. In an emergency always call 999.
For the benefit of us all please keep all your belongings with you at all times. Any
unattended bags have to be checked by security and can result in delays to the timetable,
or even building evacuation, whilst the item is investigated.
Regular pass and bag checks can be irritating – none of us likes to queue – but we are sure
you understand why such security is necessary.
Yours ,
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Conference Security
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Conference timetable
Conference timetable
Key to timetable Sunday Monday
NPF Ballot
Policy seminar
09.45 - 12.45
Plenary
Scottish Report
Local Government
Fraternal Speaker
Sustainable
communities / citizen-
ship & equalities
Stronger and more united
communities Q & A
Contemporary issues
14.15 - 16.00
ballot
14.00 - 17.30
Parliamentary report
Opening formalities
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Conference timetable
Closing speech
Lunch 12.45-14.15
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Welcome to Conference
Welcome to Conference
Online shop
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Online shop
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Doing more
But in recent years, in line with the
resolution passed by conference in
Manchester, we have tried to be more
creative in improving the party’s
environmental impact while saving money
at the same time.
Carbon neutral
Last year, we made Conference carbon
neutral, And we will do so again this year. thousands of pounds as well as saving
dozens of trees.
Printing less
The Labour Party uses tonnes of Labour members net (see page 8) allows
paper every year, producing mailings, party members to access publications and
campaign materials and policy booklets resources online instead of sending for
in large quantities for distribution to our printed copies.
stakeholders. Over the last six months,
we’ve reduced paper mailings by almost Recycling
two-thirds, with the vast majority of our We recycle office waste wherever possible.
communications to members, councillors, All our print cartridges are recycled either
CLPs and MPs now going by email through return-to-supplier facilities, or
– reducing print and postage costs by using the Redeem scheme on page 39.
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Getting greener
Energy
We have a deal with Uchange4better, an What you can do
energy costs comparison website which not • give us your email address so we can save
only helps member save money, but shows on paper communications
you the CO2 impact of each option. See • ask your printer to use FSC or recycled
page 38 for details. paper for all your leaflets and newsletters
(your printer needs to be FSC–certified, to
Sustainable materials put the logo on your leaflets)
We now print nearly all national Labour • recycle print cartridges, old mobile phones
Party publications on paper from etc. via our Redeem scheme (see page 39)
responsibly-managed forests, as defined by
the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) – visit
fsc.org for more information. At Conference
Both our major print partners, Elanders • Our sponsor SITA is providing
and ProCo (see advertisement on previous recycling bins throughout the
page, or visit them on Stands P70-71) are island site for paper, glass,
FSC-certified, which entitles us to put the
FSC logo on our publications when the plastic, cans and even
paper used contains pulp from FSC-certified food waste
forests. Our contract with major UK supplier • REED Carpets who lay all the
Howard Smith Paper Group makes sure that
these papers are always available to us at carpet used in the hall and
short notice. The large volume of paper we exhibition areas will be recycling
purchase ensures we get the best prices. the carpet at the
Our print partners also order paper for end of Conference
our work from Howard Smith, and all the • look out for the FSC logo on your
photocopying paper used in Labour Party Conference publications
offices is either FSC-certified or recycled.
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A–Z information
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A–Z information
Documents Enablers
Copies of speeches RNIB enablers will be
are available from the available throughout
Labour Students’ stand conference and can be
No. B4 or at labour.org. contacted by radio at each
uk. The Conference Daily entrance. Stewards on
newspaper, handed out site will be able to contact
when you come into enablers. A one to one
Conference each morning, service is not available
publishes the Record of throughout conference.
Decisions from the previous
day. Entrance/exits
The entrance to the island Information desk (on
site is via the BIC carpark, Labour Party stand)
which leads to the Purbeck The Labour Party Stand is in
Hall, the main entrance the middle of the Purbeck
to the BIC. The disabled Hall. Visit the party stand
entrance is located at the to book training sessions,
right hand side of the BIC enquire about campaigning,
main entrance. collect the days record of
decisions or for any other
First Aid party-related information.
This is located on the
Solent corridor by the Roux
Express Coffee Bar.
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A–Z information
Signers
Sign language interpreters
will be on the platform
for all plenary sessions to
convey speeches to those
with hearing difficulties.
Lost pass
If you lose your pass, Smoking Policy
whether inside or outside Following the introduction
the secure zone, please of new legislation on 1 July
notify Conference Services 2007, it is against the law
as soon as you realise to smoke in any enclosed
the pass is missing and to premises. You may smoke Training Sessions
organise a replacement. in the outdoor areas of the Open to any party member
island site. attending Conference, a
Parking variety of training sessions
Due to security restrictions with take place during
there is no parking conference. Please visit
anywhere in the island site. the party stand or see the
For further details of car information on pages 24
parks in Bournemouth, visit and 25.
bournemouth.gov.uk
Wheelchairs
Post Office U2 events can arrange
There will be a post box at mobility aids with prior
the Post Office Stand, No. notice. Please contact the
15 in the Purbeck Hall. Conference Services unit on
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Computer training
Computer training
at Conference
These sessions are aimed at people who most from Labour’s membersnet which is
have not previously used any of the now a thriving online community of Labour
systems and want to find out more. They Party members which gives the party a
last up to 60 minutes and takes place in modern way to communicate with members
the training room located at the CFL stand, and for members across the country to talk
S9 in the Solent Hall exhibition area. Places to each other.
are limited and it is advisable to book in
advance at the CFL stand. Sunday 22nd
4 – 5pm Labour Contact Creator
There will be five different topics repeated 5 – 6pm CFL Caseworker
in sessions throughout the week:
Monday 23th
Contact Creator – This session will look 10 – 11am Labour’s members net – Mpurl
at the new, online replacement for Labour. 11am – 12pm Labour Print Creator
contact. which is being launched here at 12 – 1pm CFL Caseworker
Annual Conference. LCC is set to become 4 – 5pm Interactive Web Creator
the Party’s main campaigning tool. 5 – 6pm Labour contact creator
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FABIAN POLICY ROUND TABLES
Fringe listings
Our round tables are invitation-only stakeholder debates.
Please contact jemima.olchawski@fabian-society.org.uk for more.
Monday
The skills gap: whose rights, whose responsibilities?
8am
John Denham, Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, Michael
Izza, Institute of Chartered Accountants, David Coats, The Work Foundation (chair)
Low carbon Europe
8am
Stavros Dimas, Commissioner for the Environment, Stephen Hale, Green Alliance,
Jim Murphy MP, Europe Minister, Nicola Pitts, National Grid, Roger Liddle,
European Commission (chair)
Energy policy and climate change
6pm
Jim Skea, UK Energy Research Centre, Malcolm Wicks, Minister for Energy, Alan
Whitehead MP
Tuesday
Educating the innovators of tomorrow
8am
Bill Rammell MP, Annette Thomas, Oil & Gas UK, Tim Horton, Fabian Society (chair)
1245
Beyond ‘respect’
David Blunkett MP, Beverley Hughes MP, Children Minister, Martin Narey,
Barnardo’s
Wednesday
Should soft skills be part of the curriculum?
8am
Jim Knight MP, Minister for Schools, Tim Oates, Research Director, Cambridge
Assessment, Richard Pring, Nuffield Review, Anthony Seldon, Wellington College,
Louise Bamfield, the Fabian Society (chair)
Putting communities in control: next steps for the placemaking agenda
9am
Rushanara Ali, Young Foundation, Jeanette Faherty, Avanta, Caroline Flint MP, Robert
Taylor
The environment and social justice: how do we meet the fairness test?
6pm
Hilary Benn MP, Tony Hawkhead, Groundwork UK, Rebecca Willis, SDC
We will soon announce details of the following Policy Round Tables on our web site at www.fabians.org.uk
Beyond hospitals? Transforming the NHS
Natalie-Jane MacDonald, BUPA, Ara Darzi (invited), Jennifer Dixon, King’s Fund,
Dr Howard Stoate MP (chair, invited) and others
Bringing care closer to patients: but can pharmacists, GPs and
commissioners work together to achieve it?
Dawn Primarolo MP, Dr Howard Stoate MP, David Taylor, School of Pharmacy
Creating a healthy debate: public engagement in health policy
Viki Cooke, Opinion Leader Research (invited), Anna Coote, Health Care Commission
(invited), Alan Johnson MP (invited), Jo Revill, The Observer (invited) and others
Innovation and public services
Andy Burnham MP, Chief Secretary to the Treasury (invited), Paul Coen, Local
Government Association (invited), Jonathan Kestenbaum, NESTA, and others
Pensions: increasing saving, preserving provision
Niki Cleal, Pensions Policy Institute, Mike O’Brien MP, John Jory, B&CE Benefit
Schemes and others
Reaching for renewables
Adam Bruce, British Wind Energy Association, Graham Wynne, RSPB, Phil Woolas
MP, Alan Whitehead MP (chair, invited) and others
Fringe listings
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End Child Poverty Can childcare alleviate School’s out, or is it? YWCA More
Reception child poverty? 14 – 19 education than one rung
and training campaign: Making
Date Time Venue Date Time Venue
Sunday 23rd September Sunday 23rd September work work for girls
Date Time Venue
6.15 – 7.30pm 6.00 – 7.30pm Monday 24th September Date Time Venue
Harold Wilson Marquee, Mirabelle Room 6.00 – 7.30pm Tuesday 25th September
Zafferano, next to the Royal Bath Hotel Clifton Suite 5.30pm
Marriot Highcliffe Hotel Bournemouth Hermitage Hotel Blandford Syndicate 3,
Host Chair Bournemouth Highcliff Hotel
Jasmine Whitbread Patrick Diamond Speakers invited Chair
Chief Executive, Director of international The Rt Hon Ed Balls MP Dawn Butler MP
Save the Children think tank Policy Network Secretary of State (Chair APPG, Youth Affairs)
and public interest body for children, schools
Speaker Capacity and Visiting Speakers
Government Minister (tbc) and families;
Fellow LSE Rt Hon Harriet Harman MP
Mike Tomlinson
Refreshments provided Minister for Women (invited)
Speakers Buffet and refreshments
Rt Hon Ed Balls MP Deborah Annetts
provided YWCA Chief Executive
Secretary of State for
Children, Schools and and young women from
Families (invited) YWCA projects
Denise Burke Refreshments provided
London Development
Agency (LDA),
Head of Childcare
Alexandra Frean
Education Editor
of the Times
Refreshments provided
Wheelchair access
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not inevitable.
“And let me say… “We must tackle “Our goals could
that in the fourth the causes of child not be more important:
richest country in poverty…so that we can Nothing less than full
the world it is simply strengthen our society employment in our
wrong – wrong that and deliver security and generation and social
any child should grow opportunity for all.” justice and…ending
up in poverty.” Ed Balls MP,
child poverty
Gordon Brown MP, July 2007 in Britain..”
June 2007 Peter Hain MP,
June 2007
Young people call Disabled children Education: Closing Thanks to the Family
for an end to child - a new priority. or increasing the Fund for supporting
poverty in the UK: Every Disabled Child poverty gap? this advertisement
Young campaigners Matters campaign Date Time Venue The Family Fund helps
affected by poverty Wednesday 26th September 50,000 low-income
Date Time Venue
share their experiences Wednesday 26th September 12.45 - 2.15pm families with severely
12.45 - 2.00pm. Harold Wilson Marquee, disabled children with
Date Time Venue grants worth £28.2 million.
Tuesday 25 September West Cliff Suite, Tralee Zafferano, next to the
7.00pm Hotel, West Hill Road, Marriot Highcliffe Hotel They are a key agent in
Offshore Cafe at Bournemouth, BH2 5EQ Chair the battle against child
Bournemouth Aquarium Fiona Millar poverty.
Speakers
Rt Hon Ed Balls MP Journalist Over half of the country’s
Chair
Jasmine Whitbread Secretary of State for Speakers 770,000 disabled children
Chief Executive, Children, Schools live in poverty. Over time
Jim Knight MP
Save the Children and Families service improvements will
Minister of State for
Dame Jo Williams DBE Schools and Learners; help raise incomes but to
Speaker Chief Executive, Mencap hit its 2010 target for
Rt Hon Edward Miliband Kate Green halving child poverty the
(tbc) Lunch will be provided Chief Executive, Child government needs to
Poverty Action Group; give families more direct
Refreshments provided
Steve Sinnott financial support. This will
General Secretary, require increases in the
National Union of Teachers; disability living allowance,
A representative of the the Family Fund
English Secondary government grant and
Students' Association. the childcare element of
Buffet lunch provided working tax credits, plus a
Wheelchair access DLA take up campaign.
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The Age Concern and Help the Aged Fish and Chip Supper
Rt Hon Peter Hain MP, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (invited)
8 – 9.30pm
Monday 24 September
Still on the fringe: Does the NHS fail to treat people with dignity?
Rt Hon Alan Johnson MP, Secretary of State for Health (invited)
Anna Walker, Healthcare Commission
Gordon Lishman, Age Concern England
12.45 – 1.45pm
Tuesday 25 September
Out of sight, out of mind: Where’s the adult social inclusion agenda?
Ed Miliband MP, Secretary of State for the Cabinet Office (invited)
Baroness Prosser, Commission for Equality and Human Rights
Bridget Warr, Guide Dogs
Gordon Lishman, Age Concern England
A representative from Association of Directors of Adult Social Services
6 – 7pm
Tuesday 25 September
For further details telephone 020 8765 7602 or email eventsdept@ace.org.uk www.ageconcern.org.uk
Fringe listings
driving stronger performance - making services
accountable - putting people in charge
13:00 – 14:00
Royal Bath Hotel, Bournemouth
Flooding – the planning, environmental and
economic challenge.
Hosted by the APG on Flood Prevention Group in con-
junction with Norwich Union
Speakers include: John Grogan MP, John Smeaton – Norwich
Union, Cllr Ian Mearns – LGA
19:30 – 20:30
Climate Clinic Punshon House, Bournemouth Wednesday 26 September
Taking the temperature: can public services 12.45 – 14:00
save the planet? Marriott Sherbourne, Bournemouth
Hosted by the LGA, the NHS Confederation, UNISON Redefining efficiency: bigger, cheaper, faster
and nef – better?
Speakers include: Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP, Cllr Sir Jeremy Speakers include: Ed Balls MP, Lisa Sanfilippo – nef, Paul
Beecham - LGA, Dame Gill Morgan - NHS Confederation, Coen - LGA, Gill Ball – ACCA, David Walker - The Guardian
Dave Prentis - Unison, Andrew Simms - nef
Venue: Marquee A, San Michel Brasserie and Bar, Highcliff Hotel Venue: Tregonwell Room, Royal Exeter
Date: Sunday 23rd September Date: Monday 24th September
Time: Drinks from 8pm Time: 6.30pm
Debate starts 8.30pm
For more information visit the BBC stand at S54-56, Solent Hall, BIC
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Health Hotel member organisations:
Alzheimer’s Society, Association of British Healthcare Industries, The
Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry, Asthma UK,
HOTEL
All the big health debates
fpa (Family Planning Association), General Medical Council, The Health
Foundation, Healthcare Commission, Help the Aged, Help the Hospices,
King’s Fund, LTCA, Macmillan Cancer Support, Marie Curie Cancer Care,
Medical Protection Society, The New Health Network, The NHS
under one roof Confederation, Nursing & Midwifery Council, Parkinson’s Disease Society,
Rethink, The Royal College of Midwives, Royal College of Nursing, Royal
Supported by:
College of Surgeons, The Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health, The Stroke
Association, UNISON
Monday 24 –
Tuesday 25
September at The
Marriott Highcliff,
Bournemouth
• Health fringe
events
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Reducing re-offending –
how can we break
the cycle?
Sunday 23 September, 5.30 – 7.00pm
Café Zafferano, Marquee A
(Highcliff Marriott Hotel)
• Maria Eagle MP, Justice Minister
• David Harker, Citizens Advice
• Jill Stevens, Experian
• Chris Bath, Unlock
Supported by
Marquee A is now the
Refreshments provided James Callaghan Marquee
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TUESDAY 25TH SEPTEMBER TUESDAY 25TH SEPTEMBER TUESDAY 25TH SEPTEMBER
08.00 – 09.00 08.00 – 09.00 08.00 – 09.00
DESIGNING COMMUNITIES FOR THE PROHIBITION FOR PROTECTION? SHOULD MEETING THE CARBON CHALLENGE:
FUTURE: SUSTAINABILITY AND PLACE THE GOVERNMENT FORCE PEOPLE TO REALITY OR RHETORIC?
CHOOSE HEALTHIER LIFESTYLES?
Westcliff Suite, Tralee Hotel Piano Room, Bourne Hall Hotel Cork Ballroom, Tralee Hotel
CHAIR: Roger Harrabin, BBC tbc CHAIR: Ann Rossiter, Social Market Foundation CHAIR: Fiona Harvey, The Financial Times tbc
SPEAKERS: Hilary Benn MP tbc; Peter Clegg, Feilden SPEAKERS: Kevin Barron MP tbc; Claire Fox, Institute SPEAKERS: Phil Woolas MP tbc; Tom Clarke,
Clegg Bradley tbc; Cllr Richard Leese, Manchester of Ideas; Niall Dickson, King’s Fund; Sarah Boseley, Channel 4 News tbc; Julie McDowell, Standard Life
City Council; Polly Turton, Commission for The Guardian tbc Investments; Richard Lambert, CBI tbc
Architecture and the Built Environment
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Fringe listings – Saturday/Sunday
Please check www.climateclinic.org and The Independent for daily Climate Clinic fringe meeting updates.
Sunday 23 – Thursday 28 September, 2007. Address: see The Independent and official conference guide for listings.
Climate Clinic Member Organisations Sponsors
Media partner
European Commission
Representation in the UK
European Commission
Drinks Reception
Sunday 23 September 2007
10pm - Midnight
Marriott Highcliff
Bryanston Suite
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LABOURAUTUMNCONFERENCE
New Local Government Network fringe events
Sunday 23rd September Monday 24th September
6.00pm-7.30pm 1.00pm-2.00pm
Pavilion Circle, Bournemouth Pavilion Circle, Bournemouth
Green Shoots: Can Local Action It’s About More Than Council Tax!
Prevent Climate Change? How Should We Finance Local Government?
Local authorities have a key role in enabling their own The Lyons Report into Local Government is about much more
communities to take action on the environment and driving than Council Tax. It offers a new direction for developing local
behavioural change on becoming more sustainable. Through economies through economic incentives and partnerships,
promoting recycling and better waste management to radical putting local councils at the heart of economic development.
options such as local carbon trading, councils have a unique With the Government due to respond to Lyons in October,
role in being able to shape their local environmental needs. this event will explore how we can harness the expertise of
local government in developing economic prosperity.
Speakers: Speakers:
Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP, Secretary of State for Environment,
John Healey MP, Minister of State, DCLG
Food and Rural Affairs
Paul Coen, Chief Executive, LGA
Cllr Mike Edwards, Deputy Leader, Nottingham City Council
Ray Morgan, Chief Executive, Woking Borough Council
John Best, Chief Executive, Milton Keynes Council
Chris Leslie, Director, NLGN Chair: Chris Leslie, Director, NLGN
Chair: Jonathan Freedland,
The Guardian
supported by supported by
Refreshments provided Refreshments provided
www.nlgn.org.uk
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Building Hope –
more homes now
6.15–7.30pm, Sunday 23 September
Deauville Suite, Trouville Hotel
Speakers
Rt Hon Yvette Cooper MP
(Housing Minister)
Jon Cruddas MP
(Dagenham)
Adam Sampson
WAKE UP AND SMELL (Chief Executive, Shelter)
Monday 24 September
GLOBAL HEALTH CRISIS: PUBLIC OR PRIVATE SOLUTION?
Barbara Stocking Oxfam Director, Karen Jennings UNISON National
Secretary for Health, Baroness Shriti Vadera DFID Parliamentary
Under-Secretary of State, Dr Chris Whitty Adviser, Conservative
Global Poverty Policy Group. Chaired by Barbara Gunnell New
Statesman. Jointly sponsored by UNISON.
Tuesday 25 September
GLOBALISATION: THE ROAD TO SUCCESS?
A Conversation with Ha Joon Chang Author of Bad Samaritans, and
Gareth Thomas MP DFID Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State.
Wednesday 26 September
Can Labour
UK ARMS IN THE WRONG HANDS?
Q&A with Rt Hon Des Browne MP Defence Secretary. Chaired by
really
journalist Martin Bell. Jointly sponsored by Amnesty International UK.
make poverty history?
WESTBEACH RESTAURANT panel members: • Rt Hon Douglas Alexander MP
8.45am - 11.45am, speakers from 10.30am • Eric Joyce MP
• Quentin Davis MP
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The Blair Years will also be available from the Party Stand
at a special Conference price of £20.
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LabourP1Party
Stand
At the Party Stand you can
• Book your place at party training events
• Buy tickets to selected party fringe events
• Collect copies of the Conference Daily
Newspaper
• Find out anything else you need to know
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Due to the leadership elections this summer, and the subsequent ministerial reshuffle,
many fringe event organisers have not been able to confirm speakers before this magazine
went to press.
The Conference Daily newspaper will publish updates and corrections in each issue relating
to the meetings that day, to ensure delegates have the latest information.
10.00 13.00 17.30
Key Christian Socialist Movement Fabian Society Citizens Advice, Experian
Conference service Campaigning for change Reducing re-offending
Punshon Methodist Church, Connaught Suite, Connaught – how can we break the
Secure Island site
opposite BIC Hotel, West Hill Road cycle?
Free Speakers: Revd Dr Leslie Speakers: leading MPs and Zafferano Restaurant, James
Griffiths, Minister Wesley’s grassroots members Callaghan Marquee
Refreshments
Chapel, London A participatory debate about Chair: Jill Stevens, Experian
Wheelchair access the party we need Speakers: David Hanson
Full details: see advert at MP (invited); David Harker,
Sign translation
start of listings Citizens Advice
12.00
Christian Aid, Christian
SATURDAY
Socialist Movement
Christian Aid cut the carbon 13.00 17.30
17.30 march Labour Movement for Europe Commission for Equality and
Grass Roots Umbrella Network Punshon Methodist Church, and E!Sharp Magazine Human Rights
including CLDP/STLP/LRC/ opposite BIC Britain’s role in europe Equality and human rights
NSCG/CFS/WLGR/Chartist/LLB Chair: Daleep Mukarji, Zafferano Restaurant, at a crossroads
Our hopes for Conference: Director Marriott hotel Gladstone Suite, Royal Bath
delegates briefing and get Speakers: Cut the carbon Speakers: Rt Hon David Hotel, Bath Road
together marchers; Christian Aid; Milliband MP, Neil Kinnock, Speakers: Trevor Phillips,
Bournemouth International government speakers tbc Gary Titley MEP, Mary Creagh CEHR Chair; Francesca Klug,
Hotel, 6 Priory Road, West MP, Baroness Joyce Quin, CEHR Commissioner; Jane
Cliff Richard Corbett MEP Campbell, CEHR Commissioner
Speakers: Tom Davidson,
Chair GRUN;Michael Meacher 12.00
MP; Progressive Deputy Women Councillors’ lunch with
Leadership candidates Dame Jane Roberts, Chair of 17.00
invited; Kelvin Hopkins MP; the Independent Commission The New Regional Agenda
Jim Mortimer, former Labour on the role of local councillors – Ensuring that the East
Party General Secretary Looking at the incentives Midlands is top of it!
Delegates free with and barriers serving on Sherbourne Room, Highcliffe
accreditation; £5 for non- councils from a women’s Chair: Paddy Tipping, MP;
delegates perspective John Healy (tbc);
Hermitage Hotel, opposite BIC Speakers: Gilly Merron, MP;
Lunch £15. Strictly by Minister for East Midlands;
accepted invitation only as East Midlands Development
space is limited. Details ann@ Agency; Manchester Airport
Sunday
frontlineconsulting.co.uk Group
10.00
Campaign for Labour Party
Democracy 12.30
CLPD rally and delegates’
briefing
GCT, CLA, CPRE
Managing the land,
News, views & booze
Bournemouth International conserving the countryside Read the papers & chill
Hotel, 6 Priory Road, West Mirabelle Room, Royal Bath
Cliff Hotel, Bath Road
Speakers: Mohammed Azam; Chair: Country Land and
Tony Benn; Diana Holland, Business Association
NEC; Kelvin Hopkins MP; Speakers: from CLA, GCT, CPR
Lynne Jones MP; Gavin Strang
MP; Peter Willsman, NEC
£2, conc 50p
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AVIATION AND
AND THE
THE ENVIRONMENT 17.30
The Co-operative Party,
18.00
Fabian Society, Virgin Media,
Mutuo The Observer
CAN THEY COEXIST? The people’s games? Do The fringe starts here:
London 2012 care what Fabian question time
Danny Bernstein you think? Hot Rocks Surf Diner, Pier
Chairman Sustainable Aviation Council Shaftesbury Suite, Marriott Approach
Highcliff Hotel Chair: Mary Riddell, The
Rt Hon Brian Wilson Speakers: Peter Hunt, Observer
General Secretary The Co- Speakers: Ed Balls MP; Linda
Co Chair Flying Matters & former Energy Minister
operative Party; Andy Love Colley, Princeton University;
Further speakers to be confirmed MP Sunder Katwala, Fabian
Society; Mariella Frostrup
Wessex Hotel 5.30pm (tbc); Glenys Kinnock MEP
Sunday 23rd September Refreshments (tbc); Lord Neil Kinnock (tbc)
17.30
The Holocaust Educational
Trust
Sunday
17.30 Gladstone Room, Royal Bath 18.00
Royal British Legion Hotel, Bath Road NLGN supported by Milton
17.30 Broken covenant Speakers: tbc Keynes Council
Labour Finance and Industry Shaftesbury Room, Marriott Green shoots? Can local
Group Highcliff Hotel action prevent climate
Aviation and the Speakers: Frances Done, change?
environment – can they Royal British Legion and 17.30 Pavilion Circle, Bournemouth
coexist? others tbc The Work Foundation, Abbott Chair: Jonathan Freedland,
Bourne A, Wessex Hotel, West Laboratories The Guardian
Cliff Road Fit for work? Speakers: Hilary Benn MP
Chair: Sir Peter Heap Trouville Hotel, Priory Road (tbc); Cllr Mike Edwards,
Speakers: Brian Wilson, 17.30 Chair: David Coats, The Work Nottingham City Council; Chris
Airtricity, AMEC Nuclear; Save the Children, The Foundation Leslie, NLGN
Danny Bernstein, Monarch Children’s Society, NCH, Speakers: Lord McKenzie;
Airways, BATA, Sustainable NSPCC, Barnardo’s David Forrest, Abbott; Steve
Aviation Council; more tbc End child poverty reception Bevan, The Work Foundation
Zafferano Restaurant, Harold 18.00
Wilson Marquee Progress
Host: Jasmine Whitbread, Progress rally
17.30 Save the Children 17.30 Punshon Methodist Church,
Labour Party Rural Revival, Speakers: government TULO opposite BIC
Christian Socialist Movement minister tbc TULO, TUG reception Chair: Stephen Twigg
Global warming and Cork Ballroom, Tralee Hotel, Speakers: Ed Balls MP; Peter
Labour’s campaigning in West Hill Road Mandelson; David Miliband
rural areas Chair: Tony Lloyd MP MP; Yvette Cooper MP; John
Wesley Room, Punshon Speakers: Tony Dubbins, Denham MP
Methodist Church, opposite 17.30 Trade Union Chair of TULO;
BIC Society of Labour Lawyers Gordon Brown MP
Chair: Cllr Lesley Koumi We have the ministry, now
Speakers: Hilary Benn MP; Sir where is the justice? 18.00
Martin Doughty, Chair Natural Purbeck Suite, Queens Hotel, The Childcare Coalition
England; Alun Michael MP, Meyrick Road 18.00 Can childcare alleviate child
Christian Socialist Movement; Chair: Fraser Whitehead European Commission poverty?
Elliot Morley MP Speakers: Jack Straw MP; Climate change: why a Mirabelle Room, Royal Bath
Roger Smith, Director of global response needs Hotel, Bath Road
Justice; Stephen Hockman QC, European leadership Chair: Patrick Diamond,
Former Chairman of the Bar Climate Clinic, Lower Ground Director Policy Network
17.30 Room 6, Punshon Church
Nuclear Industry Association opposite BIC
Nuclear – part of the Speakers: Commissioner
solution Stavros Dimas
Waterford Lower, Tralee Hotel,
West Hill Road
Chair: Lord O’Neill of
Clackmannan
Speakers: Malcolm Wicks MP
(invited)
Hot buffet
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21.00
20.00 Agreed Ireland Forum
Social Market Foundation Irish-ness and British-ness:
Mind the (equity) gap: how developing institutions and
much inequity should the respecting identity in post-
Labour Party allow? conflict Britain and Ireland
Waterford Lower, Tralee Hotel, Lampeter Hotel, Exeter Park
West Hill Road
Chair: Ann Rossiter, Social
Road
Chair: Anni Marjoram
The Blair Years
Market Foundation Speakers: Northern Ireland An audience with Alastair
Speakers: Andy Burnham Minister; SDLP and Sinn Fein
MP (tbc); John Hutton MP elected representatives; Campbell
(tbc); Lord David Lipsey, Social Federation of Irish Societies;
Market Foundation; Jackie Agreed Ireland Forum (all tbc) Tuesday 25 September
Ashley, The Guardian (tbc) Pay bar 6.00pm – 7.30pm
De Vere Suite, Royal Bath Hotel
The Blair Years will also be available from the Party Stand
at a special Conference price of £20.
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School’s out, or is it?
14 – 19 education and training
www.barnardos.org.uk
Barnardo’s Registered Charity Nos 216250 and SC037605 9286/KK/07
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Venue: Westcliff Room, Tralee Hotel, Speakers: Rt Hon Peter Hain MP, Secretary of
Bournemouth, secure zone State for Work and Pensions (tbc)
Breakfast provided
Citizens Advice
Drinks Reception
Refreshments provided
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Small
Business
With:
Matters
The Rt Hon. Stephen Timms MP
Minister of State for Competitiveness
Chaired By:
John Wright
FSB National Chairman
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Empowering Employment
Monday, 24th September 2007, 8pm
Dods Marquee, Marriott Highcliffe Hotel
Meeting the challenge of the NEET generation
Invited panel includes:
Hywel Francis MP, Chair, Ed Balls MP, Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families,
Louise Casey, Respect Taskforce, Home Office, and Dr Adam Simpson, Shelter
Free Refreshments Available
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A green
and pleasant land:
will affordable housing cost us the earth?
07:30 - 08:30
Monday 24 September
Harold Wilson Marquee,
Zafferano Restaurant,
Bournemouth
Jonathan Shaw MP
The Conference Daily newspaper will Minister for the South East
Diversity Nite
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Mon 24 Sept - 8.30pm
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Foreign Secretary Deputy Leader Pier Approach, Bournemouth
Baroness Howells
Jack Straw MP Peter Hain MP
Justice Secretary & Work & Pensions Secretary
Lord Chancellor
Mohammad Sarwar MP
Baroness Uddin
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£10 a ticket, Limited availability on the door on production of delegate/visitors credential
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18:30
Monday 24 September
Waterford Lower, Tralee Hotel, Bournemouth
This open event will seek new perspectives
on balancing support of the individual with
delivering greater social equity
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Should the
United Kingdom
have a written constitution?
Monday 24th September - 1pm
Bournehall Hotel
14 Priory Road, West Cliff, Bournemouth
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Rt Hon Keith Vaz MP
Chair, Ethnic Minority Taskforce
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Social mobility –
can emotional wellbeing
make the difference?
Monday 24 September 2007, 6.30pm
Oceanarium, Pier Approach,
West Beach, Bournemouth
Chair
Rosemary Bennett
Social Affairs Correspondent, The Times
Speakers
Rt Hon Beverley Hughes MP
Minister of State for Children,
Young People and Families
Julia Margo
Senior Research Fellow, IPPR
Clare Tickell
Chief Executive, NCH
Wine and food will be provided
www.nch.org.uk
Speakers:
Rt Hon Stephen Timms – Minister of State for Competitiveness, BERR
Susan Anderson – Director of HR Policy, CBI
Lorna Unwin – Professor of Vocational Education, Institute of Education Event supported by
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CANCER FUND
Bob Crow at 2006 TUC conference with Eva Knapp, widow of Jimmy and a hard-working member of the Cancer Fund.
The Jimmy Knapp Cancer Fund was established The fund continues to give towards the support of
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year long battle with cancer, to be an ongoing their families and friends and the hospice
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his fellow human beings.
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culture or a cuppa...
for 39p which do
you value more?
Speakers:
Peter Hewitt, Arts Council England
Nicholas Hytner, National Theatre
Tim Brinkman, Hall for Cornwall
DCMS representative invited
Location: The Royal Bath, Gladstone Suite
Date: Monday 24 September
Time: 1–2pm
Live music. Hot food provided.
Sign language interpreter
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rnib.org.uk
actionforblindpeople.org.uk
Registered charity numbers: Royal National Institute of Blind People 226227 Action for Blind People 205913
Fringe listings – Monday
Monday 17.30
Neighbourhood Watchful
ippr
The challenge of peace Ensuring local trust and accountability in policing
17.00
building
Labour Party Irish Society
Irish reception to celebrate
Waterford Upper Room, Tralee A fringe discussion to explore:
Hotel, West Hill Road
the Irish contribution to the
Chair: Ian Kearns, Deputy x The centrality of policing to equality and delivering social
Labour movement
Director ippr justice
Wessex Hotel, West Cliff Road
Speaker: Des Browne MP; x How we tackle Britain’s corrosive fear of crime
Speaker: General Secretary,
Richard Howitt MEP; Mary
Irish Labour Party, cabinet
Kaldor, LSE x The future role of local political leadership in policing
minister tbc
Speakers
Sir Ronnie Flanagan, HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary
17.30
17.00 and the Home Secretary’s Senior Professional Advisor on
Centre for Cities at ippr,
London Borough of Newham
Neighbourhood Watchful
Virgin Trains Policing.
Connecting cities: what
Old Harry’s Bar, Highcliff
next for transport? Tony McNulty MP, Minister of State for Security,
Hotel
Cork Room, Tralee Hotel, West Counter-terrorism, Crime and Policing
Speakers: Sir Ronnie Flana-
Hill Road
gan, HM Chief Inspector of Sir Robin Wales, Directly Elected Mayor of Newham
Chair: Dermot Finch, Director
Constabulary
Centre for Cities Date: Monday, 24th September 2007
Speaker: Ruth Kelly MP;
17.00
David Frost, Director General Time: 5pm – 7pm
RNIB, Action for Blind People
How employers can support
BCC; Stephen Joseph, Location: Old Harry’s Bar, Bournemouth Highcliff Marriot
Executive Director Transport
more disabled people into Hotel
2000; Nicky Gavron, Deputy
work
Mayor of London; Geoff Inskip,
Unite Marquee, Marriott
Director General Centro
Highcliff Hotel
Chair: Stephen Remington
Speaker: David Blunkett MP;
Richard Howitt MEP
17.30
New Statesman, Nestle
17.30 17.40
Weight of obesity: what’s
The Stroke Association, One Parent Families,
the solution?
17.30 British Heart Foundation, Gingerbread sponsored by BT
Mirabelle, Royal Bath Hotel,
ABPI, LTCA, Eyecare Alliance Diabetes UK Poverty at work
Bath Road
Diversity in commissioning: Patching people up or Bryanston Room, Wessex
Chair: Jenni Russell
opportunity or choice too sorting people out? Hotel, West Cliff Road
Speaker: Dawn Primarolo
far? Funding for the long term Chair: Polly Toynbee, The
MP; Dr Sue Jebb, Medical
Bryanston Suite, Marriott in health Guardian
Research Council; Rupert
Highcliff Hotel Purbeck Suite, Marriott Speaker: Harriet Harman MP
Maitland-Titterton, Nestle UK;
Highcliff Hotel (invited); Natascha Engel MP;
Dr Rosemary Leonard GP, BBC
Chair: Joe Korner, The Stroke Jenny Watson, Chair Equal
Breakfast News
Association Opportunities Commisssion
17.30
Countryside Alliance
Brown government – green
17.30
agenda 17.30 17.45
Social Market Foundatioin,
The Large Lounge, Whitehall The Work Foundation Freight Transport Association
Food Standards Agency
Hotel, Exeter Park Road China and India – are our Road pricing – delivering
Policy under the
Chair: David Seymour jobs safe in a globalised the economy?
microscope: how should
Speaker: tbc world? Dods Marquee, Marriott
science drive policy-
Trouville Hotel, Priory Road Highcliff Hotel
making?
Chair: Alexandra Jones, The Chair: Gwyneth Dunwoody
Westcliff Suite, Tralee Hotel,
Work Foundation MP (invited)
West Hill Road
17.30 Speaker: John Denham MP; Speaker: Ruth Kelly
Chair: Lord David Lipsey,
Lansons Public Affairs John Healey MP; David Coats, MP; Edmund King, RAC
Social Market Foundation
The financial services The Work Foundation Foundation; James Hookham,
Speaker: Ian Pearson MP
reception FTA
(tbc); Sir John Harman,
Westbeach Restaurant
Environment Agency; Fiona
Chair: Ed Balls MP (tbc)
Fox, Science Media Centre;
Ticket only. Please email
Dame Deirdre Hutton, Food
publicaffairs@lansons.com
Standards Agency
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Buffet provided
20.15 20.30
Crisis, St Mungo’s, NIACE ippr, Serco
Education and employment Carbon Trading – is it
– the real route out of personal?
homelessness Purbeck Suite, Highcliffe
St Malo and Monet Suites, Hotel
Trouville Hotel, Priory Road Chair: Ian Kearns, Deputy
Chair: Hilary Armstrong MP Director ippr
(tbc) Speakers: Baroness Barbara
A CELEBRATION OF BRITISH MUSIC WITH
Speakers: tbc Young, CE Environment
A SPECIAL LIVE PERFORMANCE FROM MP4
Agency; Howard Reed, Monday September 24 2007 10:30pm – 1am
Chief Economist ippr; Ken Bryanston Suite, Bournemouth Highcliff Marriott Hotel
Livingstone, Mayor of London By invitation only
20.30
Citizens Advice
Citizens Advice Labour
Party Conference drinks 20.30
reception Liverpool European Capital
21.00
Marlow Suite, Hermitage of Culture 2008, North West
Unlock Democracy, Campaign
Hotel opposite BIC Development Agency
for a Democratic Upper House
Speakers: Stephen Timms Drinks reception
Lords reform, Labour clears
MP (invited); Teresa Perchard, Mirabelle Room, Royal Bath
the way!
Citizens Advice Hotel, Bath Road
Deauville Room, Trouville
Hotel, Priory Road
Chair: Peter Facey, Unlock
Democracy
20.30 20.30
Speakers: Billy Bragg,
Government of Gibraltar Local Government Association
singer, songwriter, activist;
Government of Gibraltar sponsored by FSA
Jack Straw MP; Tony Benn;
reception The local government
Battersea Singers, Labour
Gladstone Suite, Royal Devere reception
CLP Choir
Hotel Waterford Lower Green
Chair: Hon Peter Caruana QC, Rooms, Tralee Hotel, West
Chief Minister of Gibraltar Hill Road
22.00
Federation of Small Business
(NI) in association with
Independent News and Media
20.30 21.00
Northern Ireland
ippr, CBI, Audit Commission All Health Hotel members
The Northern Ireland
Public service reform: the Health Hotel reception
reception
next one thousand days USDAW Marquee, Marriott
Dods Marquee, Marriott
Waterford Upper, Tralee Hotel, Highcliff Hotel
Highcliff Hotel
West Hill Road Speakers: Alan Johnson MP
Ticket only. For further
Chair: Cathy Newman, Ticket only event, posted to
information: Glyn Roberts,
Political Corerspondent, invitees in advance or email
028 9032 6035,
Channel 4 News invitation@healthhotel.org.uk
glyn.roberts@fsb.org.uk
Speakers (tbc): Liam Byrne Supported by NHS Partners
MP (tbc); Lisa Harker, Co- Network
Director, ippr; Julian Le Grand,
LSE
22.30
EMI. BPI, PPL, IFPI
21.00
Never mind the politics:
Construction Products
hear the music – a
Association
celebration of British music
Construction at the heart of
Bryanston Suite, Marriott
the economy reception
Highcliff Hotel
Dorchester 2, Marriott
A special live performance
Highcliff Hotel
from MP4
ASPIRING AFRICA:
HOW CAN THE BROWN
GOVERNMENT HELP MEET
THE HOPES OF A CONTINENT?
Chaired by the Rt Hon Lord Kinnock
Speakers
FCO Minister
George Alagiah, Presenter, World News Today
(BBC World) and BBC Six O’Clock News
Moses Anibaba, Director British Council Ghana
Alex Vines, Head of Africa Programme,
Chatham House
Climate Change:
Business Opportunity
or Business Threat?
an Institute of Directors/Sunday Times
fringe meeting
Refreshments provided
Refreshments provided
All Welcome
Refreshments Served
NEW DIRECTIONS FOR LIFELONG LEARNING
7.45am Tuesday 25th September Speakers include:
The Whitehall Hotel Dr Hywel Francis MP (Chair)
Exeter Park Road David Lammy MP (confirmed)
Bournemouth Jane Hutt AM (tbc)
Dr Peter Lavender, NIACE
Our NHS:
Can we talk?
Standard Life Healthcare is pleased to
sponsor the debate on understanding the
NHS: How can we have more informed
public debate on health issues?
Mike Hall, Chief Executive, Standard Life Healthcare (Chair)
Alan Johnson MP, Secretary of State for Health (tbc)
Professor Karol Sikora, Professor of Cancer Medicine,
Imperial College
Harry Cayton, Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence (tbc)
Nick Timmins, Financial Times (tbc)
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Fringe meeting
Tuesday 25th September
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the new political activism
5.45 - 7.00pm
Speakers include:
Protecting childhood
Phil Hope MP
Minister for the Third Sector Dave Rinaldi, TimeBank or controlling borders?
David Seymour, Chair
v20, v’s Youth Board What's the priority for child refugees?
Free refreshments! Speakers: Liam Byrne MP, Venue: Clifton
Minister for Immigration (invited) Suite, The
Shami Chakrabarti, Director, Liberty. Hermitage Hotel
Chair: Bob Reitemeier, Chief Date: Tuesday
Executive, The Children’s Society. 25 September
To be followed by lively debate. Time: 5.45– 7.00pm
Charity Registration No. 221124 Photograph modelled for The Children’s Society
‘Britishness’
A lively discussion with a panel of
experts, hand-picked by the Telegraph.
Come and have your say.
Northern
• Frazer Goodwin, Policy & Advocacy Officer, European Public Health Alliance
• Shaun Mellors, Communications Focal Point, Communities Delegation to
the Board of the Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
night
Tuesday 25 September, The Function Room, The Whitehall Hotel, 7:00-8:30pm
20.00-00.00
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CAN THE
STATE
MAKE US
HEALTHIER?
Tuesday 25th September
12.45 - 2.00pm
Marquee 3, Highcliff Marriott Hotel,
Bournemouth
Lunch served
Registered Charity No. 219279 The Legion believes that men and women who have
served their country, and their families who support them,
deserve more from their Government. We invite you to
discuss our concerns with us.
Tuesday 25 September
17:30 – 19:00
The Shaftesbury Room
The Marriott Highcliff Hotel, Bournemouth
www.brokencovenant.org.uk
“Soldiers will be called upon to make personal sacrifices – including the ultimate sacrifice – in the service of the Nation. In putting
the needs of the nation and the Army before their own, they forgo some of the rights enjoyed by those outside the Armed Forces.
This obligation forms the Military Covenant between the nation, the Army and each individual soldier; an unbreakable common
bond of identity, loyalty and responsibility which has sustained the Army and its soldiers throughout its history.”
H•E•A•R•T UK; The Primary Care Cardiovascular Society; The Primary Care Diabetes Society & The National Obesity Forum
Invite you to attend a debate supported by an educational grant from sanofi-aventis:
Danger Signs,
Danger Conditions
Can the NHS make people live healthier lifestyles?
Speakers Rt Hon Dawn Primarolo MP, Minister for Public Health (tbc)
Rt Hon Alan Milburn MP, former Secretary of State for Health (tbc)
Time 12.45pm to 2.15pm, Tuesday 25 September
Venue Hardy Suite
Hermitage Hotel, Exeter Road, Bournemouth, BH2 5AH
Fourth term
or bust?
Chair: Polly Toynbee
Panel: Jon Cruddas MP, Phil Collins,
Rt Hon Tessa Jowell and Rt Hon Ed Miliband MP
Tuesday September 25, 1-2pm
Pavilion Ballroom
SMOKERS WELCOME
20.30
ippr, Oxfam, Oracle 21.00
Is a progressive foreign CEHR, CRE, DRC, EOC, Help the
policy possible? Aged, Age Concern, Stonewall
Zafferanos Restaurant (1&2), sponsored by Barclays
Highcliff Absolutely equal
Speakers: David Miliband MP; De Vere Suite, Royal Bath
David Mepham, Director of Hotel, Bath Road
Policy Save the Children; Ian With special guests
Kearns, Deputy Director ippr;
Barbara Stocking CBE, Director
Oxfam GB
22.00
Fabian Society, Virgin Media
The Fabian party
20.30 Hot Rocks Surf Diner, Pier
Woodland Trust Approach
Woodland Trust reception Invitation only. Please go to
Climate Clinic, Hardy Suite, www.fabian-society.org.uk for
Hermitage Hotel opposite BIC further details
22.00
The Co-operative Party,
PiggyBankKids
Reception hosted by
Co-operative Party and
PiggyBankKids
Purbeck Suite, Marriott
Highcliff Hotel
Guest Speakers: Ed Balls MP
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does energy really have to cost the Earth? will publish
Wednesday 26 September
Speakers updates and
8.30-9.30 am
Climate Clinic
Malcolm Wicks MP, Energy Minister corrections in each
Lord Whitty, NCC
Punshon Church House
Jenny Saunders, NEA
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Juice up your
Assessment; Anthony Seldon, Chair: Joanne Hindle, UNUM
Wellington College; Richard Speakers: Lord MacKenzie,
Pring, Nuffield Review DWP (invited); Miles
Invitation only. Please go to
www.fabian-society.org.uk for
further details
Templeman, IoD; Dr Peter
Purton, TUC Blackberry – free
Wednesday 26 September,
Bar So Dome,The Royal Exeter Hotel
12.45pm - 2.00pm. Hot buffet lunch and wine provided * All Welcome
Come along to ATL’s fringe meeting which will bring you up to
date with our views on how a radical overhaul of the National
Curriculum will contribute to a good childhood.We’ll be
concentrating on the skills children need in and out of school
which prepare them for life. We’re sure you’ve got some views
on this – so we look forward to seeing you there!
Speakers - Rt Hon. Ed Balls MP, Secretary of State for
Children, Schools and Families
Dr Mary Bousted, General Secretary,ATL
Kathy Evans, Policy Director, Children’s Society
Chair - Julia Neal, President, ATL
18.45 13.00
Electoral Reform Society Fabian Society
19.45 20.30
Rethinking the British Muslim citizenship
Climate Clinic, Met Office ippr, Engineering and
relationship: what do and integration
The impacts of climate Technology Board, Ufi
voters want from their Connaught Suite, Connaught
change Train to gain? Skills and
representatives? Hotel, West Hill Road
Climate Clinic, Hardy Suite, social mobility
Terrace Room, Swallow Durley Chair: Hannah Jameson,
Hermitage Hotel opposite BIC Waterford Upper,Tralee Hotel,
Dean Hotel, West Cliff Road Fabian Society
Speakers: Dirrick Rayall, West Hill Road
Chair: Dr Ken Ritchie Speakers: John Denham MP;
Programme Manager Climate Chair: Jonathan Guthrie, The
Speakers: Oona King, Chair Yahya Birt, City Circle; Fareena
Research, Met Office and Financial Times
Institute of Community Alam, Q News (tbc); John
panel members Speakers: John Denham
Cohesion; Cllr Jessica Biggs, GLA (tbc)
MP; Kate Stanley, Director
Crowe, Dep Leader Hackney For further details please go
of Research developement,
Councillors Commission; Dr to www.fabian-society.org.uk
ippr; Francis O’Grady, Deputy
Roger Mortimore, Ipsos-MORI;
20.00 General Secretary TUC
Dr Alan Whitehead MP
Fabian Society, National Youth
Meeting to be followed by
Agency
activists reception
Education and life chances:
what will narrow the gap? 20.30
Connaught Suite, Connaught ippr
Hotel, West Hill Road In conversation with
19.00
Chair: Louise Bamfield, Cork Room, The Tralee
ippr
Fabian Society Hotel
Defeating terrorism: can we
Speakers: Jim Knight MP; See ippr pull-out programme
win a ‘war’ on terror?
Viv McKee, National Youth in the conference guide or go
Waterford Upper, Tralee Hotel,
Agency; Baroness Estelle to www.ipprconferences.org
West Hill Road
Morris (tbc); Lord Neil Kinnock
Chair: Angus Walker, Home
(tbc); Polly Toynbee, The 22.00
Affairs Editor ITN
Guardian (tbc) ippr in association with Virgin
Speakers: Jacqui Smith MP
Media
(tbc); Sir Chris Fox, Former
The ippr media party
President ACPO; Ian Kearns,
Hot Rocks Surf Diner, Pier
Deputy Director ippr; Ed
Approach
Husain, author The Islamist;
Invitation only. Please go
Shami Chakrabarti, Director,
to: ipprconferences.org for
Liberty; Jacqui Smith MP (tbc)
further details
12.00
MPs and Delegates only
East Midlands Welcome Lunch 20.30
Tralee Waterford lower Councillors and delegates with tickets
Chair: Paddy Tipping MP (available from the party stand)
Local Government Reception
De Vere Suite in the Royal Bath Hotel
Chair: Hazel Blears MP, Secretary
of State for Communities and Local
Government
12.00
By Invitation only
East of England Delegate Lunch
18.30
Highcliff Sherbourne
By Invitation Only
Chair: Bill Rammell
London Region Reception
Cork Ballroom, Tralee Hotel
21.00
19.30 20.00
Everyone welcome
CLP delegates, international, ex-officios, Women Only
The only party in the village
other Women’s Reception
(joint LGBT Labour/Labour Party
Labour Yorkshire and the Humber Pavilion Ballroom
Reception)
Tralee, Westcliffe Chair: Norma Stephenson,
2nd level bar, The Branksome
Chair: Rt Hon Harriet Harman Speakers: Harriet Harman MP, Barbara
Speakers: Harriet Harman MP (tbc),
Speakers: Tom Riordan, Chief Executive, Follett MP, Barbara Keeley MP
Michael Cashman MEP, Angela Eagle MP
Yorkshire Forward, Bernard Hughes, Head
of Government Affairs for ASDA
21.30
By invitation only
International Meet and Greet
An opportunity for NEC Members, MPs
and MEPs to meet our sister parties.
Sherbourne Room, Highcliffe Hotel 21.00
Monday
Everyone Welcome
Welsh night
18.30 Unite Marquee, Highcliffe Marriot Hotel
Everyone welcome Guest of Honour: Rt Hon Peter Hain MP,
Engagement with Muslim Rt Hon Rhodri Morgan
Communities Across Europe 18.00
Wessex Hotel, West Cliff Road Delegates/international/ex-officios/party
Chair: Farzana Hakim, Director of members
Government Relations, Commission for Diversity Reception
Racial Equality USDAW Marquee
Speakers: Gary Titley MEP, Leader Chair: Joe Mann
of the EPLP, Shahid Malik MP (Under Speakers: Janet Seymour-Kirk; Michael
Parliamentary Secretary of State in Cashman MEP (tbc); Parmjit Dhanda MP
the Department for International
Development (tbc), Rushnara Ali,
PPC Bethnal Green and Bow, Jeroen
Dijsselbloem MP, Home Affairs and
Integration, Dutch Labour Party 21.00
Young Members only
Young Labour Reception
Highcliff Purbeck
Chair: Richard Angell, Chair Young Labour
19.00 Speakers: Dawn Butler MP (tbc),
All friends of the East Midlands welcome Stephanie Peacock, NEC Youth
East Midlands reception Representative
Highcliff Bryanston
Various ministers and cabinet members
Young
10.30
By invitation only
Welcome Meeting For International
Visitors
What is Conference 2007 all about?
Unite Marquee
Speakers: Richard Howitt MEP (EPLP
Chair and Foreign Affairs Spokesperson)
Fiona Tywcross (Regional Director,
Yorkshire)
20.00
Delegates and visitors
Labour Students Disco
Jumping Jacks, Pier Approach,
Brussels Labour group Bournemouth, Dorset, BH2 5AA
13.00
Everyone welcome Wednesday
Labour Students Priority Campaign
Launch – Campaigning for Global
Justice 12.30
Unite Marquee, highcliffe By invitation only
Sister Party Lunch
Dorchester Suite, Highcliffe Hotel
16.30
By invitation only
Question and Answer session for
International Visitors
An opportunity for international visitors
to put their questions to a panel of
Cabinet Ministers
Unite Marquee
The Blair Years will also be available from the Party Stand
at a special Conference price of £20.
ties within
For advertising opportuni
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the 2008 Conference Gu
Publishing
Please contact Landmark
co.uk
Services - landmark@lps.
020 7692 92 92
2008 at
Book before January 31st
2007 prices.
Exhibitor listings
Stand P1 Stand P6 Stand P15/16 Stand P20-22
Labour Party BAE Systems Royal Mail Group USDAW
The Labour Party BAE Systems is a global Royal Mail Group stand in the With over 340,000 members,
39 Victoria Street defence and aerospace Purbeck Hall offers a range of USDAW is one of Britain’s
London SW1H 0HA company, delivering a full post office services including largest trade unions. USDAW
range of products for air, a daily collected postbox, members work in a variety
land and naval forces, as Monday 24 to Thursday 27 of industries including retail,
well as advanced electronics, September, and a free to use distribution, home shopping,
Stand P3 information technology cash machine. call centres, food processing,
UNISON solutions and customer milk industry and insurance.
UNISON is the country’s support services. With Stand P17 Visit our stand to find out
largest trade union with 37,000 employees in the UK The Independent more about USDAW and our
over 1.3 million members and 88,000 worldwide BAE campaigns.
working throughout the Systems sales exceeded Union of Shop, Distributive
public services, utilities £13 billion in 2006. and Allied Workers
and voluntary sector. We Julian Scopes 188 Wilmslow Road,
are a campaigning union BAE Systems Manchester M14 6LJ
committed to quality public 6 Carlton Gardens Stand P19 Tel: 0161 224 2804
services, equality and fair London, SW1Y 5AD Royal National Institute of Email: enquiries@usdaw.
representation. UNISON Tel: 01252 383929 Blind People org.uk
Labour-Link is the Fax: 01252 383985 Visit the Royal National
affiliated section of the www.baesystems.com Institute of Blind People’s Tel: 0161-224 2804
union’s members. interactive stand and pit your Fax: 0161-257 2566
1 Mabledon Place wits against ‘The Thinker’. www.usdaw.org.uk
London WC1H 9AJ Are you missing two million
UNISON Direct potential customers or
Tel: 0845 355 0845 Stand P7/8 voters? How accessible is
www.unison.org.uk Tameside/Centre of your information to blind
Excellence and partially sighted people?
Come to find out more, win
Stand P9 prizes and enter our daily
NUT champagne draw. Stand 20a
The NUT believes that RNIB The Campaign for Crossrail
children and young people are Campaigns Dept The Campaign for Crossrail is
most likely to develop their Tel: 020 7391 2123 a broad coalition whose aim is
Stand P4
abilities and full potential Email: campaigns@rnib.org.uk to make Crossrail a reality as
Socialist Group in the
through access to free, high www.rnib.org.uk soon as possible. Supporters
European Parliament/EPLP
quality education delivered include leading businesses;
Labour MEPs working with
by good local schools. m trade unions; the CBI, IoD;
the Labour Party and the
Concomitant with that aim, London First and London
Labour Government; making
our professional development Chamber of Commerce and
a practical difference to all
programme plays a significant Industry; Mayor of London.
our lives; promoting policies
role in the enhancement of
to improve our economy,
teaching skills. n; Transport for London; and
environment, health, and
National Union of Teachers City of London.
security. Call at our stand in
Hamilton House
Purbeck Hall for the latest
Mabledon Place
information about your
London WC1H 9BD
Labour MEPs and their work.
Tel: 020 7388 6191
2 Queen Anne’s Gate
Fax: 020 7387 8458
London
www.teachers.org.uk
SW1H 9AA
Email: info@eurolabour.org.uk
www.eurolabour.org.uk
Stand P14
Islamic Relief
Stand T7 Stand T9
Falkland Islands Guide Dogs
Government Guide Dogs is one of the
Visit the Falkland Islands leading charities working Stand T21
Stand T3 Stand for information for blind and partially- Black Country Chamber of
DeHavilland regarding one of the UK’s sighted people. We promote Commerce
DeHavilland is the best most dynamic overseas independence through the
means of understanding territories. Meet members provision of guide dogs Stand S1
and influencing the of the Falkland Islands and mobility training, and Big Wide Talk
way government and Government. Learn of the campaign for equal access to Big Wide Talk is a research
Parliament behaves. We development of the Islands goods and services, transport, and development
provide constantly updated over the past 25 years and the street environment, organisation that enables
information filtered to meet our plans for the future health and rehabilitation parents and practitioners at
precise needs, accompanied – working in partnership with services. the very local level to improve
by tools to aid direct the UK. Email: campaigns@guidedogs. outcomes for children. Locally
engagement with ministers, Sukey Cameron MBE org.uk owned evidence derived
parliamentarians, journalists Representative www.guidedogs.org.uk/ from conversations between
and the public. Our services Falkland Islands Government campaigns children, parents, planners
are backed up by unparalleled 14 Broadway and politicians becomes the
personal support from a London SW1H 0BH driver for change to improve
dedicated team of experts. Tel: 020 7222 2542 services and create a more
Email: representative@ equal society.
falklands.gov.fk Stand T12 Ann Jamieson
www.falklands.gov.fk GLA Chief Executive
Tel: 0777 5627787
Stand T4 Email: ann.jamieson@
Royal Yachting Association bigwidetalk.org
www.bigwidetalk.org
Stand S40
Amicus Stand S54-56, 63-65
Amicus the campaigning Stand S45 BBC
communitas is part of the union has over one million British Library Visit the BBC stand
Trade Union, Community. members and represents Come and leaf through to see some of the
It works at national and workers in many industries Leonardo da Vinci’s latest developments in
transnational level to and workplaces including: notebooks, the original broadcasting. See the ‘World
support the development of manufacturing, defence, version of Alice’s Adventures at One’ and ‘PM’ broadcast
communities, specialising construction, offshore, in Wonderland and Mozart’s live. Try out the i-player – our
in the fields of social graphical, paper, media, musical diary, and see the new service that means
inclusion, lifelong learning, finance, health care, local treasures which won our you need never miss your
equality and diversity, engineering, education, public libraries competition. favourite BBC programmes
community regeneration and energy civil aviation, The British Library is again.
international development. transport, metals, voluntary displaying ‘virtual texts’ of
Communitas has supported sector and local authorities. iconic items using our award-
over 11,000 people and winning Turning the Pages
assisted over 90 per cent technology.
of beneficiaries facing Gill Webber, Head of
redundancy to find new Communications Stand S57
employment and retraining. Tel: 020 7412 7110 Centro West Midlands
communitas are providing www.bl.uk Passenger Transport
internet services during Authority
conference. Centro-West Midlands
Tel: 01562 749170 Passenger Transport
Fax: 01562 749171 Authority is responsible for
E-mail: enquiries@ promoting public transport
communitas.eu.com across the region. Our key
www.communitas.eu.com issues are the redevelopment
Stand S50 of Birmingham New Street
Furness Enterprises Station, increased rail
capacity, improved local bus
Stand S52 services and the creation of a
On Digital UK Midland Metro network across
the conurbation.
Marie-Hélène Matthews
Tel: 0121 214 7094
www.centro.org.uk
Exhibition
information
Further contact details during Conference so we can give you Complete the form to the left
your invite: and hand it into the Labour
Party stand in the Purbeck hall
or the Exhibition Organisers
Office in the Purbeck Lounge.
Almost every elected representative of And if that does not tempt you, here is a
the Labour party from cabinet ministers to breakdown of who attends Conference:
council leaders will attend our conferences.
If you would like to discuss exhibiting opportunities please call Ann Kennedy,
Head of Exhibitions on 020 7783 1511 or email ann_kennedy@new.labour.org.uk
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