Michael Sieff Foundation: Working Together for Children's Welfare

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A registered charity at work since 1987, the Michael Sieff Foundation is dedicated to improving policy and practice for children and young people in need.

We achieve these objectives by bringing together people with wide ranging responsibilities for vulnerable youngsters, resulting in action being taken in practical ways.

The Foundation's conferences involve key speakers and delegates from central and local government, the professions, business and academia, the care services and voluntary organisations, who discuss difficult issues fearlessly and openly. The report of each conference is widely distributed and recommendations are vigorously followed up.

Since research shows the best outcome for children depends on multi-disciplinary work, the Foundation encourages multi-agency collaboration.

The Foundation's achievements are often the successful adoption by others of new initiatives-arising from our conferences, and the contacts and networks made-to improve the lives of children in need.

The Foundation does not make grants of funds to other charities and trusts.

Sept. 2010 Conference

The next conference will be held at Cumberland Lodge on 21 and 22 Sept. 2010.
The working title of the 2010 conference is: "Promoting the Well-Being of the Primary School Age Child"
Please contact Richard White for further information via email here.

Youth Justice
1908 - 2008: The Children Act 100 years on young defendants today
The papers from this conference held on 28 April 2009 are now available:
see the Youth Justice page.

Conference Reports
from 1986 to 2009
The website now contains conference reports and recommendations from all the conferences that we have held since 1986 to April 2009. To download:
see the Conference Reports page.

Press Release
Tuesday 9 February 2010
Early Childhood Education & Care: Making Investment Count

On Tuesday 9 February 2010, the National Children's Bureau (NCB) and the Michael Sieff Foundation held a Parliamentary Seminar – ‘Early Childhood Education & Care: Making Investment Count’, hosted by the Earl of Listowel, at the House of Lords.

The event is part of NCB’s Firm Foundations campaign which seeks to promote the need for quality and investment in early years services, and to communicate the evidence of the benefits that such services bring to both children and our communities.

Read the Press Release issued at the event here.

Seminar Final Report
Early Childhood Education & Care: Making Investment Count

Read the Final Report from the seminar here

September 2009
Conference

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.

To view the full report click here.
To view the report summary click here.
To view the conference programme click here.

The conference was kindly sponsored by Prevention Action.

Sept. 2008 Conference
A number of recommendations emerged from group discussions at the conference and were supported in subsequent plenary sessions. These along with Conference speakers slides for the conference presentations can be viewed online on the conference programme page.