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How Can We Most Effectively Tackle Child Poverty, Health and Wellbeing?
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This Seminar will be held at The Royal Commonwealth Society in London
On Monday 22nd March 2010
Seminar reference CP/292 |
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WORKING TOGETHER TO GENUINELY IMPROVE THE LIVES OF CHILDREN & THEIR FAMILIES
PROTECTING & PROVIDING THE VERY BEST FOR THE GENERATION OF TOMORROW TODAY
 How on course are we to halve child poverty from 3.4m to 1.7m by 2011?
What duties will the new Child Poverty Bill place on local councils and partners?
Where do we go from the Child Poverty Review and Ending Child Poverty: Everybody's Business?
How can national policy most effectively tackle causes and outcomes of child and family poverty?
What steps will local partners take to tackle child poverty in their areas?
How do we effectively promote child health and wellbeing of our poorest children?
How can the NHS be most effective in tackling child poverty alongside health and wellbeing?
What more should local government do to lead local action and achieve effective outcomes?
How best should child poverty needs assessments be carried out?
How effective are Family Intervention Projects?
How best can we provide all children with every chance and opportunity?
How can we ensure that children make the most of their lives and use their talents to the full?
How do we both meet the 2020 target and longer term, decisive actions?
How well do we identify the many issues that need tackling in transitions in and out of poverty?
How best can we support parents to move into work so improving the lives of their families?
How are we addressing the barriers to delivering whole-area child poverty reduction?
What more should schools be doing to ensure pupils from poor backgrounds achieve their full potential?
What more should schools be doing to ensure pupils from poor backgrounds achieve their full potential?
What more should schools be doing to ensure pupils from poor backgrounds achieve their full potential?
Where can we hope to be in ten years time?
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This CPPS seminar brings together key figures from across sectors in the important debate on how to effectively tackle Britain's unacceptable levels of child and family poverty and their impacts on alienation and underachievement.
The day encourages brief, focussed presentations followed by engaged discussion by all attending in a relaxed setting. It is hoped that it will make a valuable contribution to taking forward the issues.
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The fee for the day's Seminar is £345.00 plus VAT.
Earlybird Discounted rate £250 + VAT for bookings received before 22 February 2010
GENEROUS NEGOTIATED DISCOUNTS ARE AVAILABLE FOR VOLUNTARY AND COMMUNITY ORGANISATIONS AND FOR MULTIPLE BOOKINGS.
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What people say about CPPS Child Poverty Seminars
I thought the value of the day was huge. All the presentations were very stimulating. Deputy Director, Government Office for the North West
Excellent blend of short presentations, group discussion and panel feedback - all presentations informative, well-focussed and interesting - well paced. Thank you! Assistant Director, Derbyshire County Council
Thank you for reminding us that children are people and deserve respect and need to be cared for and about! Good, easily accessible venue. Liked the table format; very good for networking and discussion. Head of Centre, Beacon Children's Centre
Extremely valuable. Headteacher, Ardstraw School
Excellent speakers - very impressive and interesting. Director, Barnardo's
Fantastic quality and value - great range of speakers. Good networking opportunities. Good venue. Family and Community Services Leader, Hirst Wood Children's Centre
Very useful - excellent mix of audience. Policy Officer, London Borough of Lambeth
All excellent speakers. Format Good. Mixed tables, Discussion Good. Childcare Strategy Manager, Rochdale MBC
All thought provoking and relevant. Vitally important. Excellent ideas to apply to my school. Headteacher, Shuttleworth College
All of the presentations were varied and interesting - useful and thought-provoking. Trinity and All Saints College
Very good presentations and high quality interventions. Research Fellow, Overseas Development Institute
Inspirational contributions. Thought provoking presentations. Well mixed group of professionals round our table. Well organised, smoothly run day - nice food!!. Inclusion Manager, Education Leeds
Really inspiring range of presentations. Headteacher, John Donne Primary School
Stimulating - useful mix of theory, practice and research. Good to give sizeable time for discussion and questions post-presentation. Department of Education Northern Ireland
Very inspirational! Love approach of teaching child not subject. Senior Children's development Officer, Knowsley MBC
Extremely useful, in particularly the quality and range of speakers and the way the audience was organised for discussion - an excellent idea. Anon
Excellent presentations. The wide range of inputs and variety of workplace of delegates made a very interesting and worthwhile day. Anon
Very impressive. Anon
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