[WiLT] Finding a positive balance; gender, planning and regeneration - updated

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Finding a positive balance; gender, planning and regeneration -

Updated Programme

Registration and coffee

.. Chair: Sue Percy, Director, Membership, Education and Lifelong
Learning, Royal Town Planning Institute

Opening session:
.. Spelling it out - what does the Gender Equality Duty mean?
Speaker from CLG

Morning Panel Session
.. Gender, regeneration and poverty Sue Smith, Equalities Policy
Advisor, UK Poverty, Oxfam
.. How can the spatial planning system respond? Dr Dory Reeves,
Director, Reeves Associates
.. Improving the balance in LSPs Toby Blume, Director, Urban Forum
.. Redressing the balance for women in housing Barbara Thorndick,
Chief Executive, West Kent HA

Break

.. Discussion with panel

Lunch

.. A place for everyone? - a Regender briefing paper - Professor
Clara Greed, University of the West of England

Afternoon workshop sessions:
.. Planning for women and disability and older women Wendy Davis,
Women's Design Service
.. Women's place in the country - gender equality through rural
women's networking North Northumberland Women's Network
.. Gender Mainstreaming in regeneration schemes Jenny Lynn,
Regeneration Consultant
.. Meeting the needs of women from ethnic minority communities
Denize LeDeatte, Associate, Women's Design Service
.. Why only women? Sally Copley, Director, Policy, Research and
Campaigns, YWCA

Report back and review

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You can download a programme and booking form from
http://www.rtpi.org.uk/ct/EVENT/192/11/events/192

To request details of concessions and any other information please
contact Mary Murphy at mary.murphy at rtpi.org.uk

All other details are as original posting at
http://www.freecharity.org.uk/~womeninlondon/?p=428

Posted on WiLT blog at
http://www.freecharity.org.uk/~womeninlondon/?p=440