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Engagement, Intervention and Development in Early Years
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Tuesday 16th March 2010
Sheraton Grand Hotel, Edinburgh
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STELLA PERROTT Writer and Independent Consultant
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Stella is an independent consultant and writer on social policy and public services and has had extensive
experience in children’s and criminal justice services as a practitioner, manager, inspector and policy maker.
Previously, she was a Deputy Director with the Scottish Government with a policy lead for the Government’s reform programme for children’s services Getting it Right for Every Child, the Children’s Hearings and Youth Justice. She was also previously a Depute Chief Inspector with the Social Work Services Inspectorate where she led the Government’s review of child protection It’s Everyone’s Job to Make Sure I’m Alright. |
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PAUL BRADSHAW Research Director
Scottish Centre for Social Research |
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Paul Bradshaw is a Research Director at the Scottish Centre for Social Research (ScotCen).
Having also worked as a researcher for the Scottish Children's Reporter Administration and the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime in the School of Law at Edinburgh University, Paul has been involved in a range of research studies in Scotland particularly in the areas of families, children and young people.
Since joining ScotCen in early 2005, Paul has managed the Growing Up in Scotland study, a large-scale longitudinal birth and child cohort study of 8000 Scottish families with a specific focus on early years issues. Paul is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day running of the project as well as undertaking key survey activities for each wave of data collection including questionnaire design, fieldwork management and analysis and reporting of findings. For more details of the Growing up in Scotland study, visit http://www.growingupinscotland.org.uk |
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ADAM INGRAM MSP Minister for Children and Early Years
The Scottish Government |
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Adam Ingram is the Minister for Children and Early Years with the Scottish Government.
Born in Kilmarnock in 1951, Adam was educated at Kilmarnock Academy. He graduated from Paisley College with a BA (Hons) in Business Economics. He has a local family business background coupled with professional training and experience as an economist and prior to his election he worked for ten years as an economic development consultant. He was elected to the Scottish Parliament as a list member for the South of Scotland in 1999. In the Parliament he has convened the Cross Party Group on Mental Health and has been a member of the education committee and the subordinate legislation committee. He is married with four children and lives in Kilmarnock. |
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DR MAJELLA MURPHY-BRENNAN Head of International Programme Dissemination
Triple P International |
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Majella is a key member of the Triple P international management team and her work for the past 10 years has focused on the development of supports and implementation strategies to enhance the dissemination of Triple P worldwide.
She is particularly interested in the engagement and ongoing support models that underlie an effective dissemination process. In her current role, she engages with representatives of international agencies (government and non-government) interested in adopting Triple P, dealing with their programme queries and advising them of strategies that will ensure optimal outcomes for Triple P rollouts.
At present, she is managing the dissemination of Triple P in the UK and acts as a consultant to Triple P’s European representatives. Majella continues to collaborate with Professor Matthew Sanders on research into dissemination from an organisational perspective in her role as adjunct lecturer with the University of Queensland. She has also recently provided expert advice to the United Nations on dissemination issues and represented the Parenting and Family Support Centre as part of its consultancy team with the Council of Europe. |
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DR TEODORA GLIGA Senior Research Fellow
Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, University of London |
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Teodora Gliga has almost 10 years research experience in the field of cognitive and brain development and is currently based at the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck College, University of London. Working with typical developing children, as well as children at genetic risk of autism, her main area of investigation is the development of language and communication abilities in the fist 3 years of life.
Last year, Dr Gliga spent 3 months within the British Psychological Society Parliamentary Office working on a policy document concerning youth violence. |
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JEAN CARWOOD EDWARDS Early Years Team Leader
Learning and Teaching Scotland |
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Jean Carwood-Edwards DCE, AEE, M.Ed joined Learning and Teaching Scotland in 2007 and is currently the Early Years Team Leader. She is currently engaged in developing, supporting and promoting an improved ‘research into practice’ agenda for Early Years practitioners across Scotland.
Prior to joining LTS, Jean was Head of School of Education at James Watt College of Further and Higher Education. As well as teaching in FE, Jean worked in partnership with the University of Strathclyde to design, develop and deliver the new degree BA Education and Social Services: a degree which focuses primarily on developing approaches to ‘integrated service provision’ for children and families.
Jean started out her career as a teacher in nursery and then primary before moving into Further Education where she supported both students and practitioners in their early education and childcare training programmes for a number of years.
In her previous and present LTS role(s), Jean continues to place a high level of importance on contributing to a wide range of local and national collaborative initiatives with partners such as Scottish Government, local authorities, educational settings, universities, colleges, private and voluntary sector organisations, SQA, SSSC, HMIE and others. |
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MELANIE HORNETT Nurse Director
Lothian NHS Board |
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Melanie Hornett has been Nurse Director with NHS Lothian since April 2009. In this role she is responsible for the professional leadership of approximately 12,000 Nurses, Midwives, Health Visitors and Allied Health Professionals across the Lothian region. She is also Lead Director for Patient Experience, Public Involvement, Complaints, Child & Adult Protection and joint lead for Healthcare Governance with the Medical Director.
Melanie is the executive lead for the Family Nurse Partnership project currently being tested in the region. Developed in the United States, the Nurse-Family Partnership, also known as the “David Olds” programme, is an evidence based home visiting programme that improves the health, well-being and self sufficiency of low income, young, first-time parents and their children.
Melanie has a long career of clinical and managerial positions in the NHS and prior to the current role, was Director of Nursing and Patient Services at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundations Trust.
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ADDIE STEVENSON Chief Executive
Aberlour Child Care Trust |
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Addie Stevenson joined the Aberlour Child Care Trust as the Director of Children and Family Services and was appointed Chief Executive in December 2006.
Addie started her career as a trainee social worked in Strathclyde and has more than 22 years experience in delivering and managing children and family services. Before joining Aberlour, Addie spent two years with the Association of Directors of Social Work where she developed a framework for good staff support and people management in the social care sector. She has also worked as a Strategic Project Manager on best value, e-government, strategic partnerships and organisational development.
Addie is a Graduate Member of the Institute of Personnel and Development and a registered project manager and programme manager.
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IAN STORRIE Policy Manager
Children and Young People Team, COSLA |
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Ian is a policy manager in the children and young people team at COSLA with interest and responsibility for the wide range of issues relating to children including the Early Years.
A member of the Early Years Framework Programme Board, Ian is at COSLA on secondment from the Scottish Government where he was previously an Economic Advisor in the Education Analytical Services Division supporting the Children, Young People and Social Care Directorate. Whilst in Scottish Government, Ian provided analytical support to a wide range of policy initiatives including GIRFEC, Changing Lives and the Early Years Framework. Ian was a member of the Integrated Services task group and supervised two of the four evidence papers produced to support the develop of the Framework.
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ROBIN MCKENDRICK Policy Team Leader
Getting it right for every child, The Scottish Government |
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Robin McKendrick is currently the Policy Team Leader and Policy Manager for Getting it right for every child at the Scottish Government.
As the Policy Manager for Getting it right for every child, one of Robin's key roles is to provide leadership to policy colleagues across Scottish Government in embedding the Getting it right for every child approach as a mechanism for the operational delivery of all services affecting children and young people.
Prior to this post, Robin has had roles which have involved him in leading the Education (Additional Support for Learning) Scotland Act 2009 through its Parliamentary stages, as well as playing a leading role in implementing the recommendations in the report on the Teaching Profession for the 21st Century.
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CATHY BACHE Founder and Lead Pracitioner
The Secret Garden Outdoor Nursery |
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Cathy Bache, founder of The Secret Garden Outdoor Nursery, has an educational background: initially teaching Drama in primary schools and then in 2000 gained an ATQ in Primary Education enabling her to work with Early Years.
The combination of ‘causes and conditions’ that drew Cathy out to the woods with preschool children in 2004 were: a vast and spacious childhood roaming woodland and countryside, an eccentric grandfather that taught her to light and dance around campfires, formative parenting years living in Norway discovering the joys of doing the outdoors with her own children, a year in Newfoundland ‘daily walking in all weathers in every season’, and a wonderfully supportive group of friends and parents in the Howe of Fife who believed in and held the dream with Cathy of developing a preschool experience based on the engagement with nature.
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Conference development by: Jennifer McConachie
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