Key Partners: Making it Work with Parents and Professionals. Delegateswill consider how to get relationships off to a good start, focusing onthe initial contact with parents and professionals and look at simplecommunication strategies and techniques to diffuse conflict. - London.Cost: 130. Visit www.ioe.ac.uk/cpd or call 020 7612/6589/6987
14 MARCH
Clinical Workshop Series: Transforming hostility and hate in the Hopethat Love and Intimacy can Become Possible. The workshop led by DrAmanda Jones, consultant parent-infant psychotherapist, who was involvedwith the Channel 4/Anna Freud Centre TV series 'Help Me Love My Baby',will explore the different responses babies can have when relating to aparent who is struggling with hostile feelings. - London. Cost: pounds :30 for members of Association for Infant Mental Health, 45for non-members. E-mail: info@aimh.org.uk or call 0208 144 2386
25 MARCH
Nursery World: Early Years Foundation Stage, six months on. Following onfrom last year's three sell-out conferences on the EYFS organised byNursery World, this event will focus on where we are now. Delegates willhear from leading speakers from National Strategies, the CWDC, NCMA andOfsted, and workshops will focus on subjects such as outdoor play, theinclusion of boys, and working with parents, offering the opportunity toshare best practice and develop action groups. - London. Cost: from324. Visit www.eyfsconference.com
2-3 APRIL
Creating Opportunities, Building Futures: The Future of Children'sServices - Improving Outcomes for all Children and Young People throughIntegrated 0-19 Working. This two-day conference by 4Children will focuson how the integration of services can safeguard children and youngpeople. Speakers include children's secretary Ed Balls and shadowminister for children Tim Loughton. - London. Cost: from 600 plusVAT for both days. Visit www.4children.org.uk/annualconference2009 orcall 020 7522 6970
