Our conference programme brings together local, national, and international experts and speakers who are focused on strengthening health visiting practice.
Programme content is still being confirmed and is subject to change
| Time | Session |
| 08:30 – 09:10 | Registration |
| 09:10 – 09:30 | Sponsor Breakfast Session – NHS England – Reducing Restrictive Practices (BROADCAST ONLINE FOR VIRTUAL ATTENDEES) Leanne Gelder | Specialist Advisor of Quality Improvement & Reducing Restrictive Practice Lead, NHS England Kath Marginson | Senior Project Manager: Violence Prevention and Reduction Team, NHS England Alexis Quinn | Expert by lived experience |
| 09:30 – 11:00 | Keynote Session 1 – SEND is Everyone’s Business (BROADCAST ONLINE FOR VIRTUAL ATTENDEES) |
| 09:30 – 09:35 | Welcome |
| 09:35 – 09:55 | Health Visitors and the SEND Landscape- looking into the horizon Kirsty Jacques & Nikki Freeman | Health Visitor Clinical Leads for SEND, Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust |
| 09:55 – 10:15 | Supporting neurodivergent parents – what you need to know and how to help Alexis Quinn | Expert by lived experience |
| 10:15 – 10:35 | Integrating care for children and young people with SEND Professor Simon Kenny OBE | National Clinical Director for Children and Young People, NHS England |
| 10:35 – 10:55 | Q&A |
| 10:55 – 11:20 | Break |
| 11:20 – 12:30 | Concurrent Sessions |
Concurrent 1: Safeguarding is Everyone’s Business (BROADCAST ONLINE FOR VIRTUAL ATTENDEES) Safeguarding children with special educational needs & disabilities Kenny Gibson MBE | Deputy Director for NHS Safeguarding Learning from National Reviews Jenny Coles | National Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel Safeguarding Children Exposed to Prenatal Alcohol Dr Inyang Takon | Consultant Paediatrician Concurrent 2: Understanding Cerebral Palsy Early identification and intervention for children with or at risk of cerebral palsy Pilar Cloud | CEO, Action Cerebral Palsy Building Happiness out of Trauma Marie Stanley, MCSP | Senior Bobath Tutor, Senior Paediatric Physiotherapist and Training Lead, The National Bobath Cerebral Palsy Centre Concurrent 3: Supporting a Child with Cleft Supporting families following the diagnosis of a Cleft lip and or Palate Helen Moreland | Lead Clinical Nurse Specialist, Cleft Lip and Palate, The Spires Cleft Centre How Speech and Language Therapists support children with cleft palate to develop communication Rachel Olivier | Specialist Speech and Language Therapist, Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust Health Visiting support for a child and family following the diagnosis of a Cleft Lip and Palate Pritrica Webber | Health Visitor, Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust |
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| 12:30 – 13:20 | Lunch |
| 13:20 – 14:30 | Concurrent Sessions |
Concurrent 4: Neurodiversity in the Early Years (BROADCAST ONLINE FOR VIRTUAL ATTENDEES) Supporting Your Neurodiverse Child: The Importance of Early Intervention Jo Harrison | Director and East of England Representative, National Network of Parent Carer Forums (Known as NNPCF) Practical approaches to supporting a family whilst waiting for a diagnosis Charlotte Wilson | Specialist Trainer, Empowering Parents Empowering Communities Brigid Bose | Expert by lived experience Concurrent 5: Understanding Down Syndrome The Lived Experience: parenting a child with Down syndrome Nicola Enoch | CEO, Down Syndrome UK Step by Step – a toilet skill development programme June Rogers MBE | Down Syndrome UK Working as a newly qualified Health Visitor supporting a child with Down syndrome Lucy Tomlinson | Health Visitor Concurrent 6: Enhancing Communication for all FOLLOW and JOIN! Practical strategies to support language and communication development in neurodiversity-affirming ways Cathy Gough & Laura Black | Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapists in Early Years Changing Conversations Mellissa Mackell | Expert by lived experience Challenging Conversations: having a ‘difficult conversation’ with a parent Jeannette Parker | Health Visitor |
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| 14:30 – 14:45 | Break |
| 14:45 – 16:10 | Keynote Session 2 – The Future Is Bright (BROADCAST ONLINE FOR VIRTUAL ATTENDEES) |
| 14:45 – 14:50 | Welcome Back |
| 14:50 – 15:10 | Every Atom of You: raising a child with Down syndrome Chris Read | Expert by lived experience |
| 15:10 – 15:30 | Underserved, unheard, falling through the gaps Professor Monica Lakhanpaul | Professor of Integrated Community Child Health Population, Policy & Practice Dept, UCL GOS Institute of Child Health |
| 15:30 – 15:50 | Children and SEND: the current landscape for children with SEND in England Dame Rachel de Souza | Children’s Commissioner for England |
| 15:50 – 16:10 | Q&A |
| 16:10 – 16:15 | Close |
| 16:30 – 17:30 |
iHV SEND Special Interest Group – In-person Networking Event A fantastic face-to-face opportunity for you to network and explore best practices for supporting babies and children with SEND |
The Nursing Times will be attending our conference to provide media coverage.
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