2009 Conference: "The Reception Years: ensuring children’s well-being from 3 to 5 including preparing for school"
21– 23 September 2009
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2008 Conference: "From Conception to Reception:
Early Years Intervention"
22 – 24 September 2008
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20th Anniversary Conference: "Preventing the abuse of children and young people and protecting their emotional and mental health"
19th - 21st November 2007

Conference Presentations
Slides for the presentations can be viewed online via the conference presentations page.
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Press Releases
Press releases issued during the conference can be viewed online via the news releases page.
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Care proceedings conference
Introduction by The Michael Sieff Foundation chairman John Tenconi to the 16/17 April 2007 legal conference on The future of care proceedings
Download: Chairman

Action to reverse the alarming increase in minor offending
Guardian newspaper letter from The Michael Sieff Foundation trustee Dr Eileen Vizard following the resignation of Professor Rod Morgan as Youth Justice Board chairman
Download: Guardian letter

Response to Youth Justice Board's Strategy for the Secure Estate for Juveniles
The Foundation's major concern - stressed in their February 2005 response - is the continuing over-emphasis on criminalisation and enforcement, instead of a welfare-centred solution which is most likely to be effective..
Download: YJB Strategy

Response to Home Office Consultation Paper on Prostitution
‘The reality of this sexual enslavement of children is alarming and unacceptable.’ Quote from the Foundation's response to Paying the Price - Home Office Consultation Paper on Prostitution. November 2004.
Download: Prostitution

Response to Children's Green Paper
The Foundation's full response to the Green Paper ‘ Every Child Matters’ and the companion document ‘Youth Justice - The Next Steps’.
Download: Green Paper Response

Ensuring Effective Intervention in a Changing World:
Speech by Rt Hon Paul Boateng MP,Chief Secretary to the Treasury, to The Michael Sieff Foundation conference, 3 September 2003
Download: Paul Boateng

Motor Industry - magazine of The Institute of the Motor Industry, September 2003
Two feature articles on Learning & Skills
Charity’s bid to give young offenders ’a second chance’
Training behind bars
Read the articles: Motor industry magazine

The Key – magazine of the Prison Governors’ Association of England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Issue 58 Spring 2002. Lady Elizabeth Haslam, founder and trustee of The Michael Sieff Foundation, outlines partnership projects of jobs for young offenders and says prison governors can take the lead to prevent re-offending.
Read extracts from this article:  Going Straight – Into Jobs