
Government Green paper
Family and Parenting Institute's response to the Government's green paper
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
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