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...to our delegates, speakers, sponsors

Govconnect want to thank you all for attending the Early Years 2017 Conference & Exhibition - Childrens Health, Transition to Transformation on the 7th of February 2017 at the Royal Society of Medicine, London.

We hope you ﬁnd our conference informative and worthwhile. The primary goal of this conference is to cover issues pertaining to many diﬀerent aspects of early years public health and children's services policy listed below. With an emphasis on the commissioning landscape for the health and wellbeing of children 0-5 years, and the high impact areas.

Govconnect aim is to provide a platform to highlight best practice across the country whilst ensuring information around future allocations and policy are cascaded down from senior oﬃcials and leading departments and agencies.

We believe that our diverse and dynamic group of speakers and contributors will provide in-depth insight and analysis on current policy and legacy, as well as, actionable and practical tools, engagement models, methods and mechanisms to help all achieve their personal and organisational goals.

Govconnect is a social enterprise dedicated to assisting the wide range of organisations in the UK & EU challenged with delivering health and social care policy. We seek to ensure that the vision for health and care is delivered upon across all UK and European geographies and administrations.

Through a series of strategic conferences and accompanying digital and social engagement strategies, Govconnect will provide a platform to drive greater collaboration. It is our hope that through improved communication and continuous engagement, models of care can be improved upon, partnerships strengthened and that the quality of patient experience, safety, and care is enhanced.

As one of the UK’s fastest growing social enterprises we work with a range of local community projects on issues linked to dementia and childhood health, in addition to investing our proﬁts to key research charities and many other worthy causes.

We wish you all the best and hope that you continue to be engaged with Govconnect for many years to come as we seek to complete our social mission.

The UK Government is committed to improving the health outcomes of our children and young people so that they become amongst the best in the world.

As part of this vision, the responsibility and funding for commissioning 0-5 children's public health services transferred from NHS England to Local authorities in October 2015 and from April this year all public health grant allocations, as advised by ACRA, included money for all public health responsibilities transferred to local authorities since April 2013. These crucially included a provision for 0-5 public health services to provide local authorities in England with the funding required to discharge the public health functions for their respective geographic areas.

The 2016/17 grants are paid in quarterly instalments throughout the period 15th April 2016 to 13th January 2017 during the lead up to our conference. Each authority shall then prepare a return setting out how the grant has been spent using the Revenue Outturn (RO) form at the end of the ﬁnancial year covering the period 1 April 2016 to 31 March 2017. In accordance with existing practice, this will be submitted to DCLG who will share the information with PHE.

One of the beneﬁts of councils commissioning 0-5 services is that it oﬀers a variety of opportunities to link with wider systems, such as housing, early years education providers and enables children's services to work better together.

Local Authorities have therefore embraced the prevention agenda and are in theory better placed to assess local needs and prioritise and deploy resources accordingly in managing these new responsibilities. It is however important that local authorities are supported in their work with a fair distribution of resources that reﬂects their relative needs, this will be one of the many aspects debated by our delegation and wider stakeholders in the lead up to and during the conference, along with best practice approaches to commissioning which are currently being adopted across the country.

NHS England and the Child and Maternal Health Intelligence Network have developed a health proﬁle of public health outcomes related to early years. The Child Health Proﬁles provide a snapshot of child health and wellbeing for each local authority using key health indicators. This enables comparison locally, regionally, and nationally and encourages insight and knowledge transfer to occur around commissioning and partnership approaches.

The latest Child Health proﬁles (March 2016) however highlight the requirement for greater collaboration in meeting these new responsibilities as whilst there are in part some great successes, many authorities of varying sizes are performing below the national average. This vital conference will review these results and the subsequent others during the coming months and in February 2017 examine progress to date. It will seek to ensure that continuous improvement occurs across all local authorities, particularly in areas that are currently underperforming.

It is in turn hoped that through this provision of insight and knowledge transfer from across the country’s leading practitioners, policy leads and governing bodies, our children's public health outcomes are continually improved and as a consequence a strong population health foundation can be created for future generations.

Early Years - Children's Health, Transition to Transformation will provide plenary and breakout sessions covering issues pertaining to many diﬀerent aspects of early years public health and children's services policy listed below. With an emphasis on the commissioning landscape for the health and wellbeing of children 0-5 years, and the high impact areas:

• Transition to parenthood and the early weeks • Maternal mental health • Child & adolescent mental health • Breastfeeding • Healthy weight, healthy nutrition increasing physical activity, reducing obesity • Non elective hospital attendance/admissions • Family nurse partnership service • Health, wellbeing and development of the child aged two, and school readiness • Safeguarding arrangements • The transformed health visiting service, targeted and universal • Child health information systems

It is clear to all that the October 2015 transfer presented an unprecedented opportunity to transform outcome based commissioning for children.

Our Early Years conference and the accompanying pre conference debate process will seek to highlight best practice across the country whilst ensuring information around future allocations and policy are cascaded down from senior oﬃcials and leading departments and agencies.

It is in turn hoped that through increased engagement at this conference, improved commissioning approaches and reduced variations in health and wellbeing outcomes will be achieved. These important transitions have provided a blueprint to improve the population health and wellbeing of children aged 0-5 and throughout the entire age range 0-19. Weekly Local Classes

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Today, the building plays host to a whole range of events, from meetings and product launches to conferences. Preserving the grandeur of old whilst embracing modern technology, 1 Wimpole Street has established itself as one of the leading meeting, conference and event venues in central London.

Holding an event at 1 Wimpole Street is an investment in the future of UK healthcare. With all proﬁts reinvested into the Royal Society of Medicine, the largest provider of post graduate medical education in the UK, stakeholders are directly contributing to the development of medical professionals.

A purpose built spacious and comfortable large lecture theatre. The Guy-Whittle Auditorium is ideal for presentations, lectures, professional development seminars, product launches, press conferences, AGMs, screenings and trade shows.

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AGENDA .

08:15-09:00 Registration & Networking

09:00-13:00 Morning Plenary

09:05 Chairs Opening Address

Prof Sally Kendall Professor of Community Nursing and Public Health, University of Kent

09:15 Delivering better health and wellbeing outcomes for children

Sally Burlington Head of Policy, Local Government Association

09:35 Questions & Answers

09:45 Giving every child the Best Start in Life – A Public Health Approach

Alison Burton Maternity and Early Years Lead, Public Health England

10:05 Questions & Answers

10:15 Break Coﬀee & Networking

11:00 Early Years - Promoting health and wellbeing quality standard

Bridget Halnan Early Years Committee Member , National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)

11:20 Questions & Answers

11:30 Child Health Information Systems

Kenny Gibson Head of Public Health Commissioning, NHS England

11:50 Questions & Answers

12:00 Comfort Break

12:10 Learning to Fly: Teaching Children to Swim in Modular Pools

Adrian Turner Director, Total Swimming Ltd

AGENDA

12:35 Infant Mental Health - conception to age 2 the ﬁrst 1001 days

Clair Rees Executive Director, Parent Infant Partnership (PIP) UK

13:00-14:00 Lunch, Coﬀee & Networking

14:00-16:00 Afternoon Plenary

14:00 Chairs Opening Address

Prof Sally Kendall Professor of Community Nursing and Public Health, University of Kent

14:10 Programme Developments & Evidence

Ailsa Swarbrick Director, Family Nurse Partnership National Unit

14:30 Early Years, Parenting and Family Relationships – learning from the evidence of ‘what works’

Carey Oppenheim Chief Executive, Early Intervention Foundation

14:50 The top 10 - Worcestershire Urgent Care Guidelines for the care of children

Dr Philip Thompson GP Lead for Children, NHS South Worcestershire CCG

15:10 Q&A Panel Debate

15:25-16:00 2 Workshops running concurrently

15:25 Parents & Professionals Listening Together - Counselling, coaching and collaboration in the Early Years

Melanie Gregory CEO, The Ear Foundation

15:25 Good nutrition in the early years

Dr Patricia Mucavele OBE Head of Nutrition , Children`s Food Trust

16:00-16:30 Coﬀee, Networking & Prize Draw

The UK Government is committed to improving the health outcomes of our children and young people so that they become amongst the best in the world.

It is clear to all that the October 2015 transfer presented an unprecedented opportunity to transform outcome based commissioning for children.

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Sally Burlington Head of Policy, Local Government Association

Sally has had a wide ranging career in policy and strategy development in the Civil Service, particularly focusing on policies to tackle poverty and disadvantage. She spent 6 years in HM Treasury and a year at Kent County Council during which time she reviewed the council's procurement of social care and negotiated one of the ﬁrst innovative Local Public Service Agreements with the Government. She was instrumental in developing the original Sure Start policy, and led work on the Social Exclusion Unit's Breaking the Cycle Report. From 2004-07 She led the secretariat for Sir Michael Lyons' Inquiry examining local government and how it is funded. Sally joined DCSF in 2007 to lead on Children in Care and Adoption, including implementation of the Care Matters White Paper and the programme of reform to improve the experiences of looked after children. From 2010 until summer 2012 she led policy on Sure Start and Early Intervention the Department for Education. Sally joined LGA in 2012 and led on policy for children and then adults. She is now Head of Policy for "people" issues, supporting the LGA's work and lobbying on children's issues, social care and health, ﬁre, community safety and regulatory services.

Kenny Gibson Head of Public Health Commissioning, NHS England

Kenny started his NHS-career as a laundry assistant in 1981 before training as a nurse from 1982. He qualiﬁed as a nurse and midwife in Scotland and got the learning bug using the internet. He is now a perpetual learner using social media about all things relating to clinical practice and our health care systems – especially how to get the public engaged with their own health and well-being. He has worked across hospitals, care homes, community services, peoples’ homes and even on the streets where he volunteers with the homeless. He still works clinically with people aﬀected by mental health & learning disabilities. His academic studies have led to his PhD in emotional intelligence and is an urban-apiculturist (bee-keeper in Brixton)

Carey Oppenheim Chief Executive, Early Intervention Foundation

Carey has been Chief Executive of the Early Intervention Foundation, a charity and What Works Centre for early intervention for children and families since 2013. Carey’s previous roles include Co-director of the Institute of Public Policy Research, Special Advisor to Tony Blair in the Number 10 Policy Unit between 2000-05, specialising in employment, social security, childcare and poverty. Carey has also been a senior lecturer in social policy at the South Bank University, deputy director and head of research at the Child Poverty Action Group, chaired the London Child Poverty Commission and advised the Treasury on welfare reform, and the Department for Education on childcare and early years strategy. She recently trained to be a teacher and taught history and politics at an inner-city London school for three years.

Ailsa Swarbrick Director, Family Nurse Partnership National Unit

Ailsa has led the Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) National Unit since 2012, and is currently taking forward a significant programmes of development to increase impact, cost effectiveness and fit with local context and priorities. She has previously overseen FNP’s expansion, and led the Unit from the Department of Health to a consortium led by the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, the Dartington Social Research Unit and Impetus-PEF. She joined the Unit in 2008, impressed by the powerful impact FNP (an evidence based, public health programme led by specially trained nurses) can have on outcomes for vulnerable families. Before that she worked in civil service policy roles, focusing on children’s issues, addressing inequalities and policy implementation. SPEAKERS

Dr Philip Thompson GP Lead for Children, NHS South Worcestershire CCG

Dr Philip Thompson has lead the development of a set of guidelines which have now been rolled out across Worcestershire, looking at the identiﬁcation and best practice management of the most common childhood presentations for urgent care. Philip has previously worked in a number of acute paediatrics departments as a junior doctor and is passionate about providing outstanding, evidence-based care to children and young people. Philip works closely with South Worcestershire CCG on a number of paediatrics projects, currently aiming to reduce the number of short stay admissions to hospitals in the area.

Dr Patricia Mucavele OBE Head of Nutrition , Children`s Food Trust

Tricia has been at the forefront of the Children's Food Trust's work over the last decade developing national school food standards and the ﬁrst national, voluntary guidelines to support nurseries, children’s centres, pre-schools and childminders with helping young children eat better. Tricia has been with us for almost ten years, leading our work to develop and implement nutritional standards for children of all ages. She is a registered nutritionist (public health) and a qualiﬁed food technology teacher. She joined us in 2006, having spent the previous 17 years living abroad working for the United Nations and non-government organisations in the Caribbean, Central America, Southern Africa and Europe on food security and nutrition. As well as her work for the Trust, she also lectures on nutrition at Kings College London.

Bridget Halnan Early Years Committee Member , National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)

I qualified as a Health Visitor in 1984 and have always worked in the arena of supporting new families to achieve best health outcomes for their Infants and Children. My career has included working in research as well as teaching, but always having contact with families. As a research health visitor. I worked with Professor Lynne Murray in the Department of Psychiatry at Cambridge University in the early 1990’s, on maternal depression and the effects on Infant development. I then took a Master’s degree at the University in Clinical effectiveness. I am currently a senior lecturer in Health Visiting, but also have held NHS clinical appointments in Infant feeding, Prescribing (within Health visiting) as well as a Clinical Practice Teacher of Health Visitors. I was awardeda Fellowship from the Institute of Health Visiting in 2015 and have sat on the NICE Standards Committee for Maternal and Infant Nutrition (QS37) as well as the NICE Standards Committee on the Health and wellbeing of the under 5’s. I have also briefly worked at Pubic Health England and the Department of Health, mainly advising about the role of the Health Visitor. Papers I have published in professional journals have generally been related to the practice of Health Visiting and up until very recently, I was a columnist on a local paper, commenting on current health issues for a general public audience. My main interest remains in supporting families to make “informed” choices, to allow them to take decisions about parenting in a commercially free environment.

Melanie Gregory CEO, The Ear Foundation

Melanie Gregory is the CEO of The Ear Foundation. She has 20 years’ experience working with families, children and adults with hearing loss. Her area of interest is person-centred practice and rehabilitative audiology. She has written numerous articles on motivational engagement, the patient journey and person-centred practice. The Naim Dangoor Auditorium blends modern design and state-of-the-art facilities with original architectural features. It successfully consolidates and enhances our reputation for providing the most advanced, in-built meeting technologies in a venue with real character.

08:15-09:00 Registration & Networking

09:00-13:00 Morning Plenary

09:05 Chairs Opening Address

Prof Sally Kendall Professor of Community Nursing and Public Health, University of Kent

09:15 Delivering better health and wellbeing outcomes for children

Sally Burlington Head of Policy, Local Government Association

09:35 Questions & Answers

09:45 Giving every child the Best Start in Life – A Public Health Approach

Alison Burton Maternity and Early Years Lead, Public Health England

10:05 Questions & Answers

10:15 Break Coﬀee & Networking

11:00 Early Years - Promoting health and wellbeing quality standard

Bridget Halnan Early Years Committee Member , National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)

11:20 Questions & Answers

11:30 Child Health Information Systems

Kenny Gibson Head of Public Health Commissioning, NHS England

11:50 Questions & Answers

12:00 Comfort Break

12:10 Learning to Fly: Teaching Children to Swim in Modular Pools

Adrian Turner Director, Total Swimming Ltd

SPEAKERS

Professor Sally Kendall Professor of Community Nursing and Public Health, University of Kent

Sally Kendall is currently Professor of Community Nursing and Public Health at the University of Kent. She became a health visitor and family planning nurse in 1982 and worked in SW London until taking up a research post at Kings College, London University and at the same time commenced her doctoral studies on the health visitor-client interaction. She gained her PhD from Kings College London in 1991 and took up a lecturing post in Buckinghamshire. In 1999 she moved to the University of Hertfordshire as Professor of Nursing and in 2001 was also appointed as the Director of the Centre for Research in Primary and Community Care (CRIPACC) and Associ- ate Dean Research in 2012. Her main research interest is in community nursing and public health and especially in client/patient experience and in family health research, particularly parenting, having developed the TOPSE tool for measuring parenting self-eﬃcacy and published widely in this area (www.topse.org) She currently manages the NIHR/HEE funded Mentorship programme for Academic Clinical Careers. She was also the Principal Investigator on the Burdett Trust funded project on Empowerment of Health Visitors – the online Community of Practice for HVs, and co-PI on the NIHR Policy Research Programme study reviewing the acceptability and utility of the ASQ-3 as a single measure of child development at 2-2.5 years, now endorsed by the Department of Health. Sally has supervised 21 doctoral studies to completion. She is the co-editor of Primary Health Care Research and Development and the co-chair of the International Collaboration of Community Health Nursing Research, a UK charity that supports international community nursing research dissemination around the world (www.icchnr.org). She is also a founding Trustee of the Institute of Health Visiting, a Visiting Research Fellow Murdoch University, Perth, and a Fellow of the Queen’s Nursing Institute.

Adrian Turner Director, Total Swimming Ltd

Adrian Turner is a former British Olympic swimmer, known for winning silver and bronze medals representing England at the 2002 Commonwealth Games. At the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, he represent- ed England in the 200m individual medley finishing in silver medal position and the 400m individual medley finishing with bronze. Adrian also competed at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games where he swam both individual medley events and reached the semi-final stage of the 200m. After his retirement from swimming he set up Total Swimming with fellow Olympian, Steve Parry, with their mission to: “Revolutionising Swimming, Changing Lives”. We don’t want to just teach people how to swim - we want to enhance lifestyles.” 10 years down the line they are the market leader in demountable pools and have delivered over 40 projects for local authorities, leisure trusts and private leisure providers innovative pool technology for cost effective modular pools.

Alison Burton Maternity and Early Years Lead, Public Health England

Alison is the National Lead for Maternity and Early Years in Public Health England. Alison started her career as a nurse working in City of London and Hackney before moving to Oxfordshire. She went on to train as health visitor and then a school nurse. Alison has worked in clinical practice for over 20 years and moved into public health in 2004 as the lead for children and young people’s public health programmes. In 2008 she was awarded a Masters degree in Child Public Health from the Institute of Child Health University College London. Before moving to her national role in PHE, Alison held a regional post in NHS England commissioning public health programmes including screening, immunisations, Health Visiting and Family Nurse Partnerships for the Thames Valley.

Clair Rees Executive Director, Parent Infant Partnership (PIP) UK

Clair joined PIP UK in this role in February 2015 and has a diverse background of experience in Consultancy, policy, practise based research, training development, public speaking and leadership in the early years over 20 years. She has a specialism in perinatal and infant mental health formed through an eclectic range of clinical experience within education, health and social care settings, both statutory and third sector. Since 2010 she has been involved in shaping the early year’s agenda in the UK Parliament with the 1001 Critical Days Manifesto, which is a cross-party collaboration to highlight the importance of the conception to age 2 period.

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Nursery and early years meals Fresh, seasonal homecooked food delivered to your nursery.

We specialise in catering for individual allergy requirements.

We supply delicious healthy meals speciﬁcally designed for young children.

We offer an exciting, varied and nutritionally balanced menu.

EVENT SPONSORS AND SUPPORTERS

Water Babies

Water Babies began in 2002 when a young couple began teaching their children to swim. It wasn’t long before they decided they wanted to teach other babies and toddlers, too… the rest is history. The company grew faster than anyone could have imagined, and thanks to an incredible network of like-minded people Water Babies now teaches 48,000 little ones to swim every week in franchises across the UK, Ireland, Canada, Netherlands, New Zealand and China. The 2016 British Franchisor of the Year still retain the same DNA that gave birth to the company all those years ago, they love babies, love swimming and love bringing the two together.

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Sensory Toy Warehouse

Sensory Toy Warehouse… award-winning company with an excellent reputation, our inspirational sensory toys and resources have sparked the imagination of our customers for over 10 years. Approved supplier to the NHS through our SBS Framework Agreement, our customers include professionals, schools, nurseries, hospitals, therapists, charities, families and carers. At Sensory Toy Warehouse it’s not just about delivering excellent customer service but also the added combination of knowledge and expertise and how we use it to provide the best solutions for our customers. We build honest and trusted relationships and ﬁrmly believe our customers deserve the best – it’s what sets us apart. So please come and talk to us!

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Rhythm Time

Rhythm Time’s passion is helping children to have the best start in life. We've developed a set of unique music courses that have been specifically written by owner and founder, Kathy Doolan (graduate of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama). Each course has been created to help a child’s confidence, creativity and co-ordination, and provides a wonderful introduction to music. The classes are aimed at different age groups, specifically: Young Baby Courses (from birth to 6 months), Babies (from birth to 14 months), Toddlers (15 months to 3 years) and Pre-schoolers (3 – 5 years). Kathy is a strong advocate of music being crucial in helping to develop a child’s speech and language from an early age and this forms a key element in all the classes. Over 10,000 children currently enjoy Rhythm Time classes across the UK. Further franchise opportunities are available - it's a rewarding career that fit around family commitments. Visit www.rhythmtime.net/eyc for more information.

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The British Specialist Nutrition Association Ltd (BSNA)

The British Specialist Nutrition Association (BSNA) is the voice of the specialist nutrition industry in the UK. We are a trade association representing manufacturers of high quality foods designed to meet the needs of people with very specialist nutritional requirements. Our members produce infant formula, follow-on formula, young child formula, complementary weaning foods, gluten-free foods, parenteral nutrition and medical foods for diagnosed disorders and medical conditions. Specialist nutrition products are developed on the basis of ongoing research, are supported by a foundation of scientiﬁc data, and are highly regulated. They are used in hospitals, nursing homes, and in the community.

www.bsna.co.uk EVENT SPONSORS AND SUPPORTERS

The Ear Foundation

We live in exciting times with greater developments in hearing technologies than ever before, transforming opportunities for people with hearing loss. However, all too the technology is not used to its full potential at home, school or work - this is where The Ear Foundation comes in. Having brought cochlear implants for children to the UK in 1989, we now provide services which bridge the gap between the clinics where these technologies are ﬁtted and the local community where they are used in everyday life. We provide:

• Family programme: Connect & Communicate • Education programme • Clinical services: Sound Advice • Family and education-focused research programme

Our services are provided at our base in Nottingham, nationally and internationally, and increasingly via the web.

www.earfoundation.org.uk

Youth Sport Nutrition

YSN® evaluated common deficiencies and nutritional recommendations specific to youth athletes to devise a scientifically validated recovery shake that caters to their unique needs, PRO-TEEN™. YSN® run in partnership with UKActive to fulfill their wider mission of encouraging participation in sport, providing an online educational platform solely for youths, parents & coaches to assist in taking the complicated science out of sports nutrition. YSN® aim to assist adolescents become responsible for their own nutrition in making the right food choices, aiming to provide external motivation to get active, stay active whilst creating more robust athletes.

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Chiltern Music Therapy

Chiltern is an award-winning not-for-profit organisation that provides music therapy services to people of all ages and many different needs. Whereas some providers only offer one type of approach, the Chiltern Music Therapy team has a thorough understanding of psychodynamic, medical, behavioural and person centred approaches. The team contains a wealth of knowledge and experience in highly specialist areas covering the complete lifecycle from Acute Neonatal through to end of life care. Our children’s and adult services extend from one-to-one care in homes or in-patient settings , through to community groups and schools ensuring that we can provide the best possible provision in the right setting for each individual client.

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Childrens Food Trust

We’re the charity sharing the skills, knowledge and conﬁdence to cook from scratch, helping anyone who provides food for children to do a great job and encouraging industry to help families make better food choices. We believe every child has a right to nutritious food. When children eat better, they do better. We do what wedo because by getting children eating well today, we’re creating the healthier adults of tomorrow. Our work not only beneﬁts the children and families we’re working with now, it will also cut costs to the NHS, create a more productive workforce and inspire better food habits in future generations.

www.childrensfoodtrust.org.uk EVENT SPONSORS AND SUPPORTERS

Acacia Training

Acacia Training is a specialist training provider for apprenticeships, higher apprenticeships, mandatory training and work-based learning. We specialise inthe health and social care, early years and childcare sectors. Acacia Training provides in-house or oﬀ-site training for nurseries, pre-schools, care homes, hospitals, and domiciliary care providers including short courses such as dementia awareness, autism awareness, diabetes awareness and many more. We also provide e-learning through our Virtual College. Our Ofsted rating is ‘Good’ and we hold Skills for Care accreditation for the quality of our training.

www.acaciatraining.co.uk

Foodtalk

After working together for a London based charitable trust delivering community public health services we decided we wanted to combine our skills and knowledge more effectively to meet the needs of the local communities. We would often meet children with nutritional deficiencies or parents that did not know how to cook with no place to turn. With our knowledge about the impact childhood nutrition can have on adult life we knew that something more needed to be done. We set up Foodtalk in 2013 as a Community Interest Company ensuring all our work is designed to benefit the communities and the people that inhabit them. We believe healthy children lead to a healthy community and want to work with you to achieve that.

www.foodtalk.org.uk

The Family Nurse Partnership (FNP)

The Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) is a voluntary home visiting programme for ﬁrst time young mums, aged 19 years or under. A specially trained family nurse visits the young mum regularly, from the early stages of pregnancy until their child is two. The FNP programme aims to enable young mums to:

• Have a healthy pregnancy • Improve their child’s health and development • Plan their own futures and achieve their aspirations

The FNP programme is underpinned by an internationally recognised robust evidence base, which shows it can improve health, social and educational outcomes in the short, medium and long term, while also providing positive economic returns.

www.fnp.nhs.uk

The University of Derby

The University of Derby offers both full degree programmes, direct entry qualifications, and professional development courses. Derby is among the top institutions in the country (currently ranked 48th in the Guardian league tables), with the university’s ‘Institute of Education’ (currently placed 16th nationally) providing a range of highly-rated programmes across a range of disciplines. Our team of Early Childhood and developmental specialists provide a broad range of experience and skills, delivering excellent teaching and very high levels of student satisfaction. Please contact us to discuss the options we can offer you to meet your development and training needs.

www.derby.ac.uk

Govconnect is a passionate team dedicated to assisting the wide range of organisations in the UK & EU challenged with delivering health and social care policy. We seek to ensure that the vision for Health and Care is delivered upon across all UK and European geographies and administrations.

We will be supporting a number of organisations over the coming years both economically and socially to ensure that the great work that has already begun continues.

Through a series of conferences and accompanying digital and social engagement strategies, Govconnect will provide a platform to drive greater collaboration and ensure all health and care policy is disseminated to key delivery agents, wider stakeholders and interested parties.

Digital Marketing

The advent of digital technologies has changed practically every aspect of business operations. From how employees communicate with one another, to how you connect with your buyers and customers, an online marketing strategy is crucial to every industry. In fact, businesses without dedicated digital marketing campaigns are behind and will quickly become obsolete.

Govconnect recognise that the digital channel offers a cost-effective way for businesses to communicate with supporters and recipients of its services. Email marketing has become one of those aspects of online business which everyone thinks they can do all too easily, often falling at the first hurdle and becoming disillusioned with the process. We’re different and we have the experience and knowledge to make it work. Couple that with strong and accurate data ensuring the right people receive your message and a comprehensive reporting system, Govconnect plan and execute digital marketing communication strategy for as long as you need to ensure you can establish a strong digital presence.

Webinars

Govconnect's webinar channels will bring to you a range of fully interactive webinar sessions from leading businesses and organisations.

The Long Term Conditions and the Quality Standards channels are thought leadership portals for business professionals in the public, private and third sector industries. We aim to create high level discussion between professionals tasked with the provision of health and care; ensuring the quality of patient experience, safety, and care is enhanced.

Our live webinar sessions allow you to form part of a UK wide audience. You will be able to engage in both peer to peer learning opportunities and one to one interaction with the solution providers best positioned to help you achieve your goals.

All of our webinars will be hosted live and on demand, are free to attend and can be viewed on a number of devices and platforms.

Event Management

In addition to our own proprietary conferences we also transfer our experience in event management and associated services to oﬀer our clients a range of options that help them move their organisations forward through both physical and digital engagement.

We will work closely with you to achieve the principal objective of your event, whether that’s increased proﬁt, higher attendee numbers or a distinctive delegate experience. We act as a seamless extension of your organisation, projecting your brand, your company image and business strategy to your target market.

EVENT SPONSORS AND SUPPORTERS

Yum Yum Food Company

We are an accredited meal delivery service for nurseries and schools. So, what’s it all about? We are a private contract catering company delivering a hot daily menu or a frozen weekly menu to your nursery or school. Once your account is activated you can submit your orders online, tell us about any of the childrens’ individual allergy requirements and order for a week, a month or whole term at a time. We oﬀer a hot lunch and cold tea menu for every day from Monday through to Friday and cater for vegetarians and all dietary needs. We then deliver your meals every day, ready for you to serve. We are proud to have achieved our EU Registration

www.yumyumfoodcompany.com

Diddi Dance

Diddi dance offer funky preschool dance classes for boys and girls all over the UK. Our unique structured 45 minute classes promote physical activity, coordination, social skills and help build confidence. We are the only preschool dance company to explore 16 different dance styles from Bollywood and tap to hip hop and salsa. We have originally written music and our company is fully accredited with Exercise Music and Dance and the Childrens Activities Association.

www.diddidance.com

The Early Years Nutrition Partnership

The Early Years Nutrition Partnership (EYN Partnership) is working to improve the future health outcomes of young children by setting a standard for nutrition practice in early years settings. The EYN Partnership has a unique network of registered nutritionists and dietitians providing hands-on help for settings wishing to improve and enhance their approach to nutrition practice. The EYN Partnership nutrition professionals tailor their support towards individual settings and the communities in which they operate. The EYN Partnership is an independent social enterprise created in partnership with the Pre-school Learning Alliance, the British Nutrition Foundation and Danone Nutricia Early Life Nutrition.

www.eynpartnership.org

Total Swimming

Founded by Olympic swimmers Steve Parry and Adrian Turner, our mission is “Revolutionising Swimming, Changing Lives”. We don’t want to just teach people how to swim - we want to enhance lifestyles Lessons are held all over Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Cheshire, Glasgow & Edinburgh in centres that have been specially selected in order to offer high-quality classes. With a carefully laid out learning structure that caters to all ages and skillsets, we start with building confidence in the water for children as young as four months at Swim a Song, before they can go on to join our Total Swimming Academies, which offer high quality swimming lessons to people of all ages.

www.totalswimming.co.uk EVENT SPONSORS AND SUPPORTERS

The Great Outdoor Gym Company (TGO)

The Great Outdoor Gym Company (TGO) are the UK pioneers of outdoor gyms. Our mission is to increase physical activity and wellbeing and to promote climate action. In 2015/2016, 40% of children in England’s most deprived areas were overweight or obese, compared to 27% in the most affluent areas (State of Child Health Report 2017). TGO’s free-to-use, accessible facilities break through key barriers to physical activity identified by Sport England, including cost, access and time. An independent evaluation by Worcester University of the Dudley Healthy Towns programme showed that “school children identified the TGO outdoor gyms as the new facility that was most effective in increasing their level of physical activity.”

www.tgogc.com

Parent Infant Partnership (PIP) UK

Parent Infant Partnership (PIP) UK is a national charity (Registered Charity No: 1152802) and umbrella organisation to a network of PIPs who provide specialist clinical services to infants and their families. PIP UK was founded in 2012 by Andrea Leadsom MP alongside the 1001 Critical Days Manifesto to realise a vision to give every baby the best possible start in life. The need for PIP services across all areas of the UK is acute. They provide an essential component to a preventative strategy for better mental health outcomes across the lifespan. International research clearly demonstrates the case for investing early into human potential. Currently only 1% of the Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAHMS) budget is spent on the under 2s, and none at all on bumps.

www.pipuk.org.uk Early Learning through Music

Multi-sensory music classes for babies, toddlers and pre-schoolers

Rewarding Franchise Opportunities available across the UK Call 0121 711 4224

rhythmtime.net/eyc BENEFICIARY CHARITIES

In the lead up to all our conferences we choose up to three charities to work alongside.

At the point of registration all our delegates will have the opportunity to choose one of our chosen charities that they wish to donate 5% of their ticket fee to. After delivery of the conference Govconnect will then transfer all associated revenue to the relevant charities. It is hoped that through this process we can continue to support the superb work done by those who already strive to make a diﬀerence.

Govconnect are pleased to announce our beneﬁciary charities at Early Years 2017 are:

National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA)

National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) began as a group of nurseries who came together to share good practice and ideas. Today, we are a rapidly growing, award-winning national charity with a committed and thriving membership across England, Scotland Wales and internationally. Our aim is, and will always be, to make sure children get the best possible start in life. By empowering childcare settings to run high quality, sustainable businesses, we know children will beneﬁt from the best care and learning, helping them to reach their potential.

www.ndna.org.uk

The Early Intervention Foundation

The Early Intervention Foundation’s vision is for every baby, child and young person to realise their potential and have a strong bedrock on which to build happy and successful lives. Our mission is to improve children and young people’s life chances and strengthen their resilience and capabilities as early as possible. There is a much greater impact of intervening before problems become more difficult to reverse. We can tackle the inter-generational cycle of disadvantageand support the next generation to raise strong families of their own by intervening early from conception to young adulthood, creating a positive cycle of relationships and behaviour. By shifting investment to effective early intervention, we aim to not only support children and their families, but also create a positive impact on wider society and benefit the economy as a whole.

www.eif.org.uk The challenges in Early Years Health:

20% of children start primary And yet, despite these facts... school overweight.

31% of 5 year olds have tooth 79% decay

90% of a child’s nutrition can of Early Years Practitioners be received in EY settings. have no nutrition training.

How can the Foodtalk Game help you?

Nutrition, health & Aligned to Eat Better, Start physical activity training Better guidelines game for EY Practitioners.

Tool to start healthy Developed with Paediatric conversations with Dietitians. families.

Includes training reports, Ofsted reports, action plans, & CPD forms. 10% off! Enter code FOOD10 at checkout.

www.foodtalkgame.co.uk @FoodTalkGame [email protected] +44(0)1415545476

Acacia Training

Foodtalk

The Family Nurse Partnership (FNP)

• Have a healthy pregnancy • Improve their child’s health and development • Plan their own futures and achieve their aspirations

The University of Derby

We will be supporting a number of organisations over the coming years both economically and socially to ensure that the great work that has already begun continues.

OUR SERVICES

Digital Marketing

Webinars

Govconnect's webinar channels will bring to you a range of fully interactive webinar sessions from leading businesses and organisations.

All of our webinars will be hosted live and on demand, are free to attend and can be viewed on a number of devices and platforms.

Event Management

We’re meticulous about the platforms that we provide, the tailored audiences that we invite and the unique event solutions that we oﬀer. Within our full-service event management package our team will assist with project management whilst clarifying the strategy and creating new components to add value to your event. We will work hard to source suitable venues whilst ensuring your event comes in on time and on budget.

FORTHCOMING CONFERENCES

Dementia 2020 - April 2017

The Challenge on Dementia 2020 contains over 50 commitments that together aspire to make England the best country in the world for dementia care and support, for people with dementia to live; and to conduct dementia research. The 50 commitments are split across four themes: risk reduction, health and care, awareness and social action, and research.

The Implementation Plan published on 6th March 2016 sets out how these commitments will be met.

This conference will review and assess the actions included in the Dementia 2020 Implementation plan, providing the necessary transparency to ensure that its actions – and later updates – make a real and lasting diﬀerence to people with dementia, their families and their carers.

Mental Health - September 2017

The Five Year Forward View for Mental Health has made an unarguable case for transforming mental health care in England, a single programme, but one which contains numerous diﬀerent, related elements across the health system for all ages.

Implementing the Five Year Forward View published in mid-2016 was a welcomed and timely roadmap. This conference will outline the core elements of the implementation plan and will review and assess the actions for each of the key objectives. TRAINING PACKAGES The Ear Foundation’s® Counselling, coaching and collaborating: developing skills for a family centred approach

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WATCH With 25 years experience providing education and family support, we offer bespoke packages of training to meet your needs. Suitable for all education and health THIS SPACE... professionals with direct family contact. One day workshops include: New online packages Part 1: Professionals learning to listen: Counselling, coaching and collaborating available soon Part 2a: Professionals learning to listen: Sharpening your counselling skills

Part 2b: Working with families of young children: Coach and collaborate!

For more contact Susanna Holt, Education Programme Organiser t: 0115 942 1985 e: [email protected] www.earfoundation.org.uk