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 |
| 09:30 – 11:00 | Keynote Session 1 – SEND is Everyone’s Business |
| 09:30 – 09:35 | Welcome |
| 09:35 – 09:55 | The current landscape for children with SEND in England Dame Rachel de Souza | Children’s Commissioner |
| 09:55 – 10:15 | Holding Title: Lived Experience of Autism Alexis Quinn | Expert by lived experience |
| 10:15 – 10:35 | Holding Title: Improving SEND Support Through Better Integration Professor Simon Kenny | National Clinical Director – Children and Young People |
| 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 Holding Title: Learning from National Reviews Sally Shearer OBE | Health Member, National Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder National Speaker TBC Concurrent 2: Understanding Cerebral Palsy Holding Title: If In Doubt, Check It Out Pilar Cloud | Action Cerebral Palsy Helen Foale | The Bobath Centre Expert by Lived Experience To Be Confirmed Concurrent 3: Supporting a Child with Cleft Helen Moreland | Lead Clinical Nurse Specialist, Cleft Lip and Palate, The Spires Cleft Centre Helene Somerville | Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist for Cleft Expert by Lived Experience To Be Confirmed |
|
| 12:30 – 13:20 | Lunch |
| 13:20 – 14:30 | Concurrent Sessions |
Concurrent 4: Enhancing Communication for all Holding Title: Neurodiversity in Speech & Language Therapy Cathy Gough & Becky Robinson | Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapists for Early Years Holding Title: How do we communicate with families? Melissa Mackell | Parent: expert by lived experience Holding Title: Difficult Conversations Jeanette Parker | Health Visitor Concurrent 5: Understanding Down’s Syndrome Holding Title: Delivering Different News Angie Emrys-Jones | Parent: Expert by experience Step by Step – a toilet skill development programme June Rogers MBE | Down’s Syndrome UK Health Visitor Support of a Child with Down’s Syndrome Lucy Tomlinson | Health Visitor Concurrent 6: Neurodiversity in the Early Years (BROADCAST ONLINE FOR VIRTUAL ATTENDEES) National Speakers To Be Confirmed |
|
| 14:30 – 14:45 | Break |
| 14:45 – 16:10 | Keynote Session 2 – The Future Is Bright |
| 14:45 – 14:50 | Welcome Back |
| 14:50 – 15:10 | 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 |
| 15:10 – 15:30 | Raising a child with Down’s Syndrome Chris Read | Parent: Expert by experience |
| 15:30 – 15:50 | Where did we come from, and where are we going? Nikki Freeman | Health Visitor Clinical Lead for SEND, Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust Kirsty Jacques | Health Visitor Clinical Lead for SEND, Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust |
| 15:50 – 16:10 | Q&A |
| 16:10 – 16:15 | Close |
