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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:
  From trials to practice
• 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:
  Supporting the life chances of the most disadvantaged children and families… findings from recent research
• Naomi Eisenstadt
  Director, Social Exclusion Taskforce:
  Reaching out - think family
• Dr Stephen Scott
  Consultant Psychiatrist, Institute 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 speakers' 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

• Professor Hilton Davis
  Centre for Parent and Child Support, South London & Maudsley NHS Trust and King's College London:
  Working in partnership with families; a model of the processes of helping
• Dr Sebastian Kraemer
  Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Whittington Hospital London:
  What next? working with families where anything can go wrong, and often already has



• Paul Curran
  Director of Children's Services, London Borough of Islington, introduced two presentations on:'Work with older children and their families who would not usually access services' Islington Parent Support Group Youth Offending Service Sally Gran, Shirley Squire, Kim and Karen
  A voluntary sector partnership project supporting families Elaine Sheppard, Valda Dagnell and Anne



• Honor Rhodes
  Director of Development, Family and Parenting Institute:
  Working with families who trouble us, what works and what does not



• Christine Smith
  Head of Transition and Well Being, Tyneside Children's Services:
  'Resilience and Parenting – working with parents across a range of needs including those where their children have challenging behaviours'



• Professor Ros Bryar
  Professor of Community and Primary Care Nursing, City University, London:
  Reaching Families in Tower Hamlets through Nurse Family Partnerships