Michael Seff Foundation Conference 2009 Programme
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The
Michael Sieff Foundation Conference 2009 The Reception Years: ensuring children’s well-being from 3 to 5 including preparing for school 21– 23 September 2009 at Cumberland Lodge, Windsor Great Park Conference Report A full report of the conference is now on this website, including a record of discussions and recommendations from working groups which were supported in subsequent plenary sessions. The report links to speaker presentations and can be found here. Slides for the presentations can also be viewed online by clicking the links below. Note: the link opens a new browser window. Some of the larger presentations could take about 2 minutes to download and show, depending on your connection speed. We've put in brackets an estimated time to download - please be patient. For details about Foundation conferences please contact: Richard White, Secretary, Michael Sieff Foundation, Phone: 07788 581930 Email: richard@michaelsieff-foundation.org.uk |
| Programme Day 1 - 21 September 2009 | |
| Theme: Preparation for the Learning Environment | |
| Chair: Wendy Rose, Senior Research Fellow, The Open University | |
| 12.00 | REGISTRATION | ||
| 12.30 |
LUNCH |
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| 13.20 |
Welcome |
John Tenconi Chair of the Trustees, Michael Sieff Foundation |
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| 13.30 | Overview of the key issues about children’s early school years | ||
| View presentation online | Professor
Christine Pascal Director, Centre for Research in Early Childhood, Birmingham |
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| 14.30 | Development and change in the pre-school child | ||
| View presentation online | Wendy
Rose Senior Research Fellow, Open University |
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| 15.30 | TEA | ||
| 16.00 | SureStart / Children’s Centres -preparation for learning | ||
| View presentation online | Fiona
Colton Head of Service, Childcare & Family Learning, Derby City Council |
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| 17.00 – 18.00 | Discussion groups 1 | ||
| 19.00 | RECEPTION | ||
| 19.30 | DINNER | ||
| Programme Day 2 - 22 September 2009 | |
| Theme: In the learning environment | |
| Chair: Wendy Rose, Senior Research Fellow, The Open University | |
| 9.00
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Managing disability - historical overview and the inclusion debate | ||
| View presentation online | Philippa
Russell Policy Adviser on Disability, National Children’s Bureau |
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| 10.00
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Whatever the problem - the workforce is the solution | ||
| View presentation online | Jane
Haywood Chief Executive, Children’s Workforce Development Council |
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| 11.00 | COFFEE | ||
| 11.30 | Discussion groups 2 | ||
| 13.00 | LUNCH | ||
| 14.00 |
Dealing
with troubled children - targeted intervention in the learning setting |
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| View presentation online | Natalia
Stafler Primary Schools Project Manager, The Anna Freud Centre |
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| 15.00 | The longer term effects of early years experience | ||
| View presentation online | Ted
Melhuish Professor of Human Development, Birkbeck College, University of London |
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| 16.00 | TEA | ||
| 16.30-17.30 |
Discussion groups 3 | ||
| 19.00 | RECEPTION | ||
| 19.30 | DINNER | ||
| 20.30 | After Dinner Speaker: No Fear: growing up in a risk adverse society | ||
| View speech online | Tim
Gill Writer and Consultant |
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| Programme Day 3 - 23 September 2009 | |
| Chairs: Eileen Vizard and Richard White | |
| 9.15 |
Overview of the conference and resulting research needs | ||
| Michael
Little Director, Dartington Social Research Unit |
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| 10.00 |
Group feedback and plenary discussion | ||
| 11.15 | COFFEE | ||
| 11.45 | Responses from Government departments | ||
| Department for Children, Schools & Families | |||
| View presentation online | Paul
Dalgleish Deputy Head, Families Policy Development and Delivery |
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| View presentation online | Ruth Talbot Assistant Director, Quality and Standards Division |
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| 12.45 | Concluding comments by conference chairs | ||
| 13.10 | Thank you and Bon Voyage from Founder | ||
| Lady Elizabeth Haslam | |||
| 13.15 | LUNCH AVAILABLE | ||
Conference
Programme Downloads |
The
conference programme can be downloaded via the links below as an
Adobe Acrobat .pdf document |
Delegate
List |
The
conference delegate list is published at the end of the conference
report. |
Conference
Sponsor |
The
conference was kindly sponsored by Prevention Action. |
| Prevention
Action is a new online news resource, which provides the latest
information on prevention and early intervention relating to children's
health and development. It reports in an accessible way the latest
results of prevention science and reports on policies, programmes
and practices that have sought to act on the results of good science |
| The site was launched informally in July 2007 and has steadily gathered a regular readership. The site can be viewed at www.preventionaction.org |