Every Child Counts Conference (Wellington)
9am- 5.30pm, 10-11 September 2008
James Cook Hotel, the Terrace, Wellington
Every Child Counts is focused on achieving change in four vital areas related to child well-being:
* Putting children and families at the centre of policy and planning.
* Ensuring all children get a good start in the early years.
* Reducing child abuse and neglect, and
* Ending child poverty.
Highlights of the annual conference include presentations from National Party leader John Key and the Hon Ruth Dyson, Minister of Social Development and presentation of the Every Child Counts Awards by Principal Family Court Judge Peter Boshier
Other speakers:
- Di Grennell (Ngati Mutunga, Ngai Tahu), Executive Director of Amokura, Northlands pan-tribal family violence prevention programme
- Richard Eckersley, respected Australian researcher into generational perspectives on young peoples health and well-being
- Baroness Doreen Massey, Chair, House of Lords All-Party Parliamentary Group on Children, United Kingdom
- Dr Susan St John, Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Auckland and member of Child Poverty Action Group
- Professor Richie Poulton, Director, Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Research Unit.
For more information go to www.everychildcounts.org.nz or ring 04 3855 667.
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