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Well-being and the whole child: leading across the children's workforce

22–23 February 2010, Hilton Metropole, Birmingham

The first national Well-being and the whole child event, hosted by the National College in partnership with the Children’s Workforce Development Council (CWDC), offers a ground-breaking opportunity to address the pressing issue of the well-being of children, young people and their families in the early 21st century.

Leaders and practitioners from across all sectors, including education, health and social care, will be able to hear challenging current thinking, take part in debate, and share best practice on how to achieve happier, healthier, safer and more prosperous children and young people who enjoy their lives and achieve their goals.

With keynote speeches from National College Chief Executive Steve Munby and CWDC Chief Executive Jane Haywood, and challenging conversations with commentators, including Author Anna Minton and Professor John West-Burnham, the event will be an opportunity to debate with and learn from top agency representatives, researchers and those who work within the children’s workforce, in partnership with families. There will also be interactive and practical workshops offering the chance for practitioners to build new relationships with their peers from other sectors and find new ways of working to nurture and protect this and future generations.

How to register

• To book your place at the conference, please complete the registration form.

Places will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis, so please respond quickly to secure your place.

Who should attend?

This event is aimed at a wide spectrum of leaders, including:

• headteachers, aspiring headteachers, middle leaders, heads of year or department, school business managers and directors
• early years leaders, including children’s centre leaders, deputy and aspiring children’s centre leaders
• directors of children’s services, deputy and assistant directors of children’s services, aspiring directors of children’s services
• local authorities and governors
• heads of social work, health and youth services, implementation managers including common assessment framework leads
• managers of multi-agency teams, integrated services and front-line practitioners in all sectors and third sector organisations key to driving an integrated workforce locally
• lead members, members of children’s trust boards and strategic integrated workforce leads
• commissioners and local commissioning champions through the commissioning support programme, local safeguarding children’s boards chairs and members and locality managers in many Children's Trusts
• key stakeholders including Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) representatives, educational consultants, school improvement partners (SIPs), programme providers
• National College designated national leaders of education (NLEs), local leaders of education (LLEs), national succession consultants and regional leaders

What will I gain?

Participants can expect to:

• develop capacity to deliver local children’s plans
• consider the impact of the extended core offer on promoting well-being
• create further impetus and ideas for locality working
• share knowledge, experience and good practice on how to develop the 21st century school vision
• consider the role of the poverty strategy in tackling underlying causes of problems facing children, young people and their families

Cost

£135 including accommodation at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole on the night of 22 February.