We know that experiences in the early years fundamentally affect the life chances and wellbeing of all our citizens. But responsibilities for services and support are complex, and funding constraints mean that we have to maximise the value of every pound spent. How can local partners best work together to ensure children and families get the support they need?

The presentation will:

Describe the importance of prevention and public health measures at individual, population and place based levels in improving outcomes in pregnancy and early years.

• Every child has at least 58 “events” with health care before their first birthday.
• How do we connect up these events and make them accessible to all providers and parents?
• Simple, you ask parents and practitioners what they are looking for and begin building it.
• This presentation tells the journey so far of the Child Health Information Systems.

• Over the last eight years Total Swimming has enabled over 300,000 young people to go swimming in their revolutionary, modular swimming pools.
• Over 100,000 of these were children from deprived areas and were taught to swim well – or ‘to fly’ as the founders prefer to describe it – for the very first time by Total Swimming and their local authority and ASA partners.
• British Gas Pools4Schools and the Mayor of London’s Make A Splash programme enable ‘pop-up’ pools to land in children’s playgrounds and go some way to improving the shocking statistic that almost half of all primary age children cannot swim.

Over 60 pools later and the evolution of Total Swimming’s technology has led to them now building permanent and 25m swimming pools, which have the possibility to truly revolutionise the number and quality of pools in the UK

• This session will draw on two recent reviews of evidence carried out by the Early Intervention Foundation on Parents’ Relationships and Parent-Child Interaction in the early years
• It will explore what interventions have been shown to be more effective and the implications for policy makers, commissioners and practitioners 

• Looking at the challenge of rising paediatric admissions across Worcestershire and the UK as a whole - why is this happening and what can we do?
• Discussion on the Guidelines on the management of the most common presentations to urgent care services for children and young people . The guidelines have been developed by a team of professionals heavily influenced by primary care - these are guidelines with a dose of pragmatism and "real world" medicine. 

If handled well, interactions with healthcare professionals can be a positive experience. Families report that assessment and monitoring can help them to fully understand their child’s challenges, allowing true collaboration can occur between families and professionals, including setting joint targets to facilitate progress. However, sessions can often cause stress and distress for families.

“Honestly, it makes me feel like I’m being judged and that what I’m doing isn’t enough for Alice. Even if they don’t say it like that, I always interpret it like that” Mum of a child with hearing loss talking about professionals.

Learn how to use key elements of parent counselling and coaching to make interactions a positive experience for families and children. Important as we strive to provide services in which parents feel in control and empowered to make changes.

Learning Outcomes

• ·Recognise the emotional impact of professional interactions on the families of children
• ·Describe key elements of parent counselling and coaching to enable families to feel in control and empowered