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Forthcoming Event

Daycare Trust : Childcare futures - shaping the agenda for the next five years

  • Daycare Trust Annual conference 2008
  • 25 November 2008, Westminster

    • Do not miss out on attending the key policy event in the childcare calendar. Childcare futures - shaping the agenda for the next five years will take place on the 25 November in Westminster and will bring together childcare professionals, local authority representatives, academics, trade unionists, employers and government at this one day event.

    With childcare a talking point once again for all three main political parties, it is clear that developing a popular and workable vision for childcare will be a key political battleground over the next few years. This Conference collects together the key players who will be leading their respective party's policy agenda in this area and challenges them to spell out their vision for the future of childcare, in front of an invited audience of professionals and opinion formers from the childcare sector and beyond.

    The conference will highlight:

    Childcare futures?

  • The Rt Hon Beverley Hughes MP, Minister for Children and Youth Justice (invited)
  • The Rt Hon Nick Clegg MP, Leader of the Liberal Democrats
  • Maria Miller MP, Shadow Minister for the Family

    • Addressing child poverty and childcare

  • Kate Green, Director, CPAG
  • The Rt Hon Stephen Timms, Minister of State for Employment and Welfare Reform, Department for Work and Pensions

    • What is quality childcare?

  • Maxine Hill, Policy and Research Manager, Daycare Trust

    • London ensuring long-term sustainability

  • Denise Burke, Head of Childcare, London Development Agency
  • Councillor Shireen Ritchie, Cabinet Member for Family and Children's Services RB of Kensington & Chelsea

    • Question time panel session with:

  • Elizabeth Elsom, Ofsted
  • Jon Richards, Unison/ CWDC
  • Dr Catherine Hakim, London School of Economics

    • Other speakers include:

  • Kathy Silva, University of Oxford

    • Book by 19 September to get the early bird discounted rate

  • Daycare Trust members £50 + VAT (standard rate £100 + VAT)
  • Non members £99 + VAT ( standard rate £150 +VAT)
  • The conference fee includes registration pack, lunch and refreshments

    • To book your place visit http://www.daycaretrust.org.uk or call us now on 020 7840 3350

    Exhibition and sponsorship opportunities are available call Celia Joseph for details on 020 7840 3350

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