CPHVA Interest Group for Parenting and Family Support Conference
“A Good Childhood Matters – Messages from Research” Practitioners Supporting Parents
Friday 25th September 2009
Diskus Conference Centre Transport House 128 Theobald’s Road Holborn London WC1X 8TN
Programme
09.30-10.00 Coffee and registration
10.00 Welcome and opening remarks – Professor Sarah Cowley (Chair)
10.15 “Children’s Perspectives on Family Relationships”
Professor Judy Dunn Author of “A Good Childhood”
11. 15 HENRY – Health, Exercise, Nutrition for the Really Young
Candida Hunt, Programme Director HENRY
11.45 “The EMPOWER Project- targeting babies and toddlers at risk of obesity”
Sue Hanson Specialist Health Visitor Leeds PCT
12.15 Questions
12.30 Lunch
13.30 “Review of the Evidence for Parenting Programmes”
Professor Jane Barlow
Professor of Public Health in the Early Years, University of Warwick
14.30 “Parents Views on Family Centre Services”
Dr. Karen Whittaker, Senior Lecturer School of Nursing & Caring Sciences University of Central Lancashire
15.00 DVD from “Action for Prisoner’s Families” – Family Links Programmes in Prison.
Shirley Stephenson, Programme Director, (North of England)
Family Links Oxford.
15.30 Questions
15.45 Closing remarks from Sarah Cowley
16.00 Close of Conference
