Recognising Risks, Supporting Brighter Futures

Recognising Risks, Supporting Brighter Futures

Early Intervention Foundation National Conference
Tuesday 12 April 2016 | Royal College of Physicians, London, NW1 4LE

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09.15 Registration & coffee
10.00
Welcome from our Chair
Dame Clare Tickell DBE, Chair, Early Intervention Foundation

10.05 Welcome from our sponsor
Mark Raeburn, Director, Capita One

10.10 Picking up the signs and not the pieces: making early intervention a reality
Carey Oppenheim, Chief Executive, Early Intervention Foundation
Professor Leon Feinstein, Director of Evidence, Early Intervention Foundation
Donna Molloy, Director of Dissemination, Early Intervention Foundation

10.50 Break
11.10
Breakout A: How can we work together to spot risks and respond effectively?
COUNCIL CHAMBER
What are the models of multi-agency working that are showing promise? How do we
develop locally based models that can spot and respond to risk in children, young people
and families? What does this mean for how key public agencies and communities work?

Christine Davies CBE, Trustee, Early Intervention Foundation (Chair)
Donna Molloy, Director of Dissemination, Early Intervention Foundation
Andy Rhodes, Deputy Chief Constable, Lancashire Police
Ian Thomas, Strategic Director of Children’s Services, Rotherham Council
Dr Louise Morpeth, Chief Executive, Social Research Unit Dartington

Breakout B: How can we support struggling parents in the early years?
LINACRE ROOM

What does the evidence tell us about which targeted programmes are effective? How do
we target activity to respond to need? What does this mean for different workforces?
How are communities and public services responding?

Jean Gross CBE, Trustee, Early Intervention Foundation (Chair)

12.20 Dr Kirsten Asmussen, Evidence Analyst, Early Intervention Foundation
David Hoare, Chair, Ofsted
12.45 Candida Brudenell, Assistant Chief Executive, Nottingham Council
13.45 Professor Kathy Sylva, Professor of Educational Psychology, Oxford University

Breakout C: Can supporting couple relationships improve children’s life chances?
SLOANE ROOM

The importance of inter-parental relationships for child outcomes has been relatively
neglected in approaches to early intervention. What does the evidence show and how
should we improve practice?

Honor Rhodes OBE, Trustee, Early Intervention Foundation (Chair)
Penny Mansfield CBE, Director, One Plus One
Professor Gordon Harold, Professor of Psychology, University of Sussex
Baroness Philippa Stroud, Chief Executive, Centre for Social Justice
Clare Burrell, Head of Commissioning, Vulnerable People, Essex County Council

Breakout D: What is known and not known from genetics about the
possibilities and limits to early intervention, prevention and other forms
of social change?
In partnership with the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
DORCHESTER LIBRARY

What are the implications of these knows and unknowns for the feasibility of policy and
practice to address intergenerational inequalities?

Introduced by Professor Leon Feinstein, Director of Evidence, Early Intervention
Foundation
Professor Anna Vignoles, Professor of Education, University of Cambridge (Chair)
Rachel Latham, Research Officer, Early Intervention Foundation and Developmental
Psychology PhD student, University of Sussex
Professor Yulia Kovas, Professor of Genetics and Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of
London
Gabriella Conti, Associate Professor (Reader) in Health Economics, UCL

Keynote address
The Rt Hon Stephen Crabb MP, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

Lunch & Exhibition

BREAKOUT SESSIONS REPEATED

Breakout A: How can we work together to spot risks and respond effectively?
COUNCIL CHAMBER

Breakout B: How can we support struggling parents in the early years?
LINACRE ROOM

Breakout C: Can supporting couple relationships improve children’s life chances?
SLOANE ROOM

14.50 Breakout D: What is known and not known from genetics about the possibilities
15.10 and limits to early intervention, prevention and other forms of social change?
In partnership with the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
16.15 DORCHESTER LIBRARY
16.30
Break

Reflections from the UK & Ireland: What are the big opportunities for early
intervention in 2016-17?

Dame Clare Tickell DBE, Chair, Early Intervention Foundation (Chair)
Professor Judy Hutchings, Director, Centre for Evidence Based Early Intervention, Bangor
University
Celine McStravick, Director, National Children’s Bureau Northern Ireland
Karyn McCluskey, Director, Scottish Violence Reduction Unit
Lisa Harker, Chief Executive, The Art Room
Marian Quinn, Chief Executive Officer, Child Development Initiative

Closing words
Graham Allen MP, Founder, Early Intervention Foundation

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