Registration will take place from 8.30-10am. The registration desk will also be an central point for information about the conference.

Bruce Rivers and Catriona Williams will welcome delegates from all over the world to the WorldForum 2008. This will be followed by a presentation by young people marking the beginning of the conference.

Rhodri Morgan AM (First Minister, Weslh Assembly Government) will officially open the IFCW WorldForum 2008, and will give an overview of Welsh policy involving children and young people.

Prof Jaap Doek will focus on the gap between rhetoric and practice in relation to the UNCRC and children's rights more generally but more specifically on what professionals working in the field can do to try to bridge the gap.

For more information about Jaap Doek and details of his work please visit his website

Delegates will be presenting details of their work in Syndicate Rooms across City Hall. Please see below for details of the venues and key speaker, and to download the abstract for each workshop.

Ferrier Hall

Professor Sonia Jackson (Research Director) and Dr Claire Cameron (Project Coordinator, Thomas Coram Research Unit, Institute of Education, England)
Retaining children in care in post-compulsory education: a cross-European perspective

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Syndicate Room A

Linda Bloomfield (University of Hertfordshire, UK):
Developing and Testing a Parenting Programme Evaluation Tool to Measure Parenting Self-efficacy (TOPSE)

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Linda Bloomfield (University of Hertfordshire, UK):
Revising a Parenting Programme Evaluation Tool for Parents with Learning Disabilities

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Syndicate Room B

Dr Ken Barter (Memorial University, Canada)
Building Community Capacity for the Health, Well-Being, and Protection of Children

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Syndicate Room C

Ray Dean Salvosa (Consuelo Foundation, Philippines)
Healthy Start- The Philippine Experience: A Unique Child Abuse Prevention & Family Enrichment Program

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Council Chamber

Kimberly Sparling Meunier (President, MindNurture, a Teaching Strategies company, USA)
Prevention through Combining Quality Child Care and Parenting Support–the Abecedarian Program and Research

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Diane Jaeger & Karen Olivier (Closer to Home Community Services Society, Canada)
Keep Families Together with Innovative Community and In-Home Support Programs.

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Syndicate Room G

Siobhan Green & Suzanne Connolly (Barnardo's, Ireland)
Evidence Based Service Design - learning from the field

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Olli Laiho, Mimosa Koskimies & Jukka Hakola (Finland)
Dialogues on good early intervention practices and ethical principles

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Syndicate Room H

Barbara Walsh (Director of Operations, Ministry of Children and Family Development, Fraser Region, BC, Canada)
We Built & They Came: Collaborative Policy & Planning in Early Childhood Services

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Stella Ziolkowski (Director of Quality & Workforce Development, NDNA - National Day Nurseries Association, UK)
Ensuring quality in early years childcare'

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Syndicate Room I

Carolyn Jones & Eve Chinnery (Caerphilly Children's Centre, Wales)
An overview of a working service model in South Wales for Early Identification, Intervention and Prevention for children and young people with additional needs

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Dawn Pickering (Cardiff University, Wales)
A pilot study to explore views on family centeredness in community paediatric services'

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Syndicate Room J

Elaine Simpson & Liz Richards (NCH Cymru, Wales)
Experiences of developing an innovation early family intervention model.

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Julian Edwards (Gwent Healthcare NHS Trust Primary Mental Health CAMHS, Wales)
The Student Assistance Programme; an early intervention and prevention support model for schools.

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Syndicate Room K

Jeremy Berland & Les Foster (Adjunct Professor, Office of the Representative for Children and Youth of British Columbia) & Martin Wright (Office of the Representative for Children and Youth of British Columbia, Canada)
The Welfare of the Child Welfare System'

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Plenary Room

Mike Greenaway (Play Wales)
Pushing Eddie in the Nettles with Connor - playwork as effective and collaborative early intervention

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Site Visit: Caerphilly Children's Centre

Caerphilly Children's Centre is a multi agency project for children and young people with disabilities living in the borough of Caerphilly. The age range is birth to 18. The Centre delivers a range of play, medical, therapy and family support services in a range of locations including home, school and on site. The Children's Centre model is based on a partnership approach with health, the local authority, parents and local fundraisers and is managed by NCH.

Delegates will be presenting details of their work in Syndicate Rooms across City Hall. Please see below for details of the venues and key speaker, and to download the abstract for each workshop.

Ferrier Hall

Dr. Tony Ogefere (JP Executive Director, SIRI Behavioural Health, England)
Domestic Violence: Improving the Mental Wellbeing of African & Caribbean Young Boyswho are living with Domestic Violence

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Syndicate Room A

Dr Linda Burnside (Manitoba Family Services & Housing, Canada)
Does She Believe? The Effect of Maternal Support on Decision Making in Interfamilial Child Sexual Abuse Investigations

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Ariane Schratter (Maryville College, USA) & Trudy Hughes (New Hope Child Advocacy Center)
Thinking Globally and Acting Locally: Using Community-Campus Collaboration for Cross-Cultural Child Abuse Research and Prevention

Syndicate Room B

Elspeth Webb & Sian Moynihan (St David's Hospital, Cardiff Univerity, Wales)
An Ethical Approach to Resolving Value Conflicts in Child Protection

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Janet Douglas (School of Social Work, University of British Columbia, Canada)
Growing Up in a Marijuana Grow-Operation

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Syndicate Room C

Lindsay Narraway & Pat Dunmore (Rainer CtC Wales, UK)
Communities That Care: Developing Local Community Early Intervention Action Plans Rooted in Best Practice'

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Dr Janice Leggett, Dr Leila Cooke & Dr Monica Mohan (Bath & North East Somerset NHS PCT, England)
Predictors of Offending in Young People with Learning Disabilities

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Syndicate Room D

Chilobe Muloba Kambikambi (Care Zambia, Zambia)
Supporting Early Childhood Development in Limited Resource Settings

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Nicola Echanis & Kelly Ahern (Barnardo's Cymru, Wales)
Barnardo's Cymru Swansea Children Matter- making a difference right from the start

Anne Logan (The Committee for Hispanic Children and Families, Inc, New York, USA)
Family Literacy Program as an Early Intervention/Prevention Strategy

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Council Chambers

Cath Larkins & Nigel Thomas (University of Central Lancashire, UK)
Understanding Children as Citizens: a Model for Service Development

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Nigel Thomas (University of Central Lancashire), Mandy Cook (Swansea University, UK) & Members of the Steering Group for the Evaluation of the Children's Commissioner for Wales
Promoting the rights of children and young people: the evaluation of the Children’s Commissioner for Wales

Syndicate Room G

Sue Everitt (Home-Start, Royston, UK)
Enjoy and achieve - Home-Start supporting parents to give their children a better start in life

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Zoë Munby (Home-Start UK)
A Home-Start initiative to overcome the challenges of evidencing the effectiveness of a community-based service

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Syndicate Room H

Michelle Moody & Rood Cooper (Gwent Healthcare NHS Trust, Wales
Prevention of and Early Intervention in Mental Health Difficulties in non-healthcare, youth friendly environments

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Jane Matheson (Wood's Homes CWLC, Canada)
'Keeping Ahead of the Game – One Organization Tackles the Transition to Adulthood'

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Syndicate Room I

Elizabeth Lumsden (Home & Road Safety Manager, RoSPA Scotland) & Karen McFarlane (Child Safety Development Officer, Children in Wales, Wales)
Reducing unintentional child injuries: The Child Safety Action Plan for Europe, it’s development and implementation

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Syndicate Room J

A 4 part symposium: "Using Epidemiological Data to Inform Early Intervention and Prevention among Child Welfare Youth: The Maltreatment and Adolescent Pathways (MAP) Project

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Christine Wekerle (University of Western Ontario, USA)
Targeting Posttraumatic Stress Disorder to Prevent Dating Violence Among Child Protective Services Youth

Randall Waecheter (University of Western Ontario, USA)
Assessing the Maltreatment - Negative Health Outcomes Relationship: The Importance of Executive Functioning

Randall Waechter (University of Western Ontario, USA)
Violence Outcome Expectancies among Maltreated Adolescents: Motivations and Implications of Aggressive Behavior

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Christine Wekerle (University of Western Ontario, USA)
Knowledge Translation Priorities in Child Welfare: Are Researchers Providing Workers with the Information they Need?

Site Visit: Marlborough Road Barnardo's Project

Projects include:

• Cardiff Young Families Service
• Cardiff Supported Housing for Single Young People Service
• Caterpillar Service (young persons mental health service)
• Bounceback (young persons mental health service in schools)
• Newport Young Families Service
• Newport ‘Out There’ Service

Site Visit: Child and Parent Support Team based at St Mellons Family Centre Family Intervention and Support Services (FISS)

This Service provides support to parents to help them build on their parenting capacity to enhance and promote their child’s health and development. The Service aims to:

• Enable children to grow up within their own families
• Prevent family breakdown
• Protect and keep children safe
• Prevent children’s names being placed on the child protection register
• Support families to enable de-registration of children whose names are on the child protection register
• Support the process of family reunification where a child has become looked after and the plan is for a return home.

The desired outcomes for the Service are be to improve the parenting skills of parents undertaking the programme so that they are better able to meet the needs of their child and for these improvements to be sustained over a period of time.

Followed by closing remarks from the first day of the WorldForum 2008