Past event
Early years, parenting and family relationships conference 2016
Bringing together around 100 commissioners and service leads to engage with the latest evidence around ‘what works’ for early years, parenting and family relationships and to consider the implications of this evidence for their work.
Agenda
Speaker profiles
Morning session: Foundations for Life
Afternoon session: Applying evidence in practice
Workshop A: Parent-child interactions and the Healthy Child Programme
Workshop B: Interparental relationships and outcomes for children
Workshop C: Perinatal mental health, attachment and development
Workshop D: Early language and behaviour
Workshop E: Troubled families
Workshop F: The interparental relationship in local family services
Workshop G: Local early years systems
Workshop H: Children’s centres
The EIF team were joined by experts from local government, academia and health and social care, to present high-quality evidence and practical examples to inspire and generate new thinking around commissioning and decision-making across children’s and families services.
Jane Ellison MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Public Health, delivered the keynote speech describing why early intervention is at the heart of the governments agenda.
Authors Leon Feinstein and Kirsten Asmussen showcased EIF’s new report, Foundations for Life: What works to support parent-child interaction in the early years.
Workshops focused on understanding the evidence and applying evidence in practice.
We’d like to thank all our delegates, speakers and chairs, and our partner Public Health England for supporting this event.
Video highlights
Leon Feinstein on 'Foundations for Life' - what the evidence can say, and what it can't
Kirsten Asmussen on 'Foundations for Life' - our findings across attachment, behavioural and cognitive programmes