Turning lives around - A one day Parents' Week conference for people working with parents and families

Monday 15 October 2007, 9.30-5.30pm
Church House, Deans Yard, Westminster, London SW1P 3NZ

Programme

Keynote Speakers

  • RT HON Beverley Hughes MP

Minister of State for Children, Young People and Families

  • Professor David Olds

Professor of Paediatrics,University of Colorado School of Medicine; founder of the Nurse/ Family Partnership approach to supporting socially excluded new parents: Icon: Acrobat PDFFrom trials to practice Icon: Link to another website

  • Dr Leon Feinstein MA, MSc, PhD

Reader in the Economics of Education;
Director, Centre for Research on the Wider Benefits of Learning, Institute of Education, University of London;
Trustee, Family and Parenting Institute: Icon: Acrobat PDFSupporting the life chances of the most disadvantaged children and families… findings from recent research Icon: Link to another website

  • Naomi Eisenstadt

Director, Social Exclusion Taskforce: Icon: Acrobat PDFReaching out - think family Icon: Link to another website

  • Dr Stephen Scott

Consultant Psychiatrist, Insitute of Psychiatry, King's College, London;
Director of Research, National Academy for Parenting Practitioners.

  • Chair: Mary MacLeod

Chief Executive, Family and Parenting Institute.

Policy debate with speaker's panel

Public business: private life… where should the boundary be between state and family?

  • Maria Miller MP

Shadow Minister for Families

  • Professor Ann Phoenix

Co-Director Thomas Coram Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London

  • Detective Chief Superintendent John Carnochan

Violence Reduction Unit, Glasgow

  • William Atkinson

Headteacher Phoenix High School, Shepherds Bush

Workshops

Choose from 6 workshop options (to be repeated before and after lunch)

  • Professor Hilton Davis

Centre for Parent and Child Support, South London & Maudsley NHS Trust and King's College London: Icon: Acrobat PDFWorking in partnership with families; a model of the processes of helping Icon: Link to another website

  • Dr Sebastian Kraemer

Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Whittington Hospital London: Icon: Acrobat PDFWhat next? working with families where anything can go wrong, and often already has Icon: Link to another website

  • Paul Curran

Director of Children's Services, London Borough of Islington, will introduce two presentations on:'Work with older children and their families who would not usually access services'

Icon: Acrobat PDFIslington Parent Support Group Youth Offending Service Icon: Link to another website Sally Gran, Shirley Squire, Kim and Karen
Icon: Acrobat PDFA voluntary sector partnership project supporting families Icon: Link to another website Elaine Sheppard, Valda Dagnell and Anne

  • Honor Rhodes

Director of Development, Family and Parenting Institute:Icon: Acrobat PDFWorking with families who trouble us, what works and what does not Icon: Link to another website

  • Christine Smith

Head of Transition and Well Being, Tyneside Children's Services:Icon: Acrobat PDF'Resilience and Parenting – working with parents across a range of needs including those where their children have challenging behaviours' Icon: Link to another website

  • Professor Ros Bryar

Professor of Community and Primary Care Nursing, City University, London: Icon: Acrobat PDFReaching Families in Tower Hamlets through Nurse Family Partnerships' Icon: Link to another website

Last updated: 28th November 2008 at 06:11:38