Going over to Chelmsford for an Essex Drug and Alcohol Service Users Conference last week, turned out to be an interesting experience.
For starters, nobody was ‘badged up’, so we didn’t know from the outset who was a service manager, who was a service user and who (heaven forbid) was from a publication. We were sat at round tables throughout the day, speakers took the floor with a microphone but no platform, and answered questions as they came up, and we were all involved in the charge for the chocolate cake at lunch.