📍Purbeck Foyer and Purbeck Hall 08:30 - 09:05 In-person registration, welcome refreshments & exhibition Online Delegates - online room will open at 09:00
09:05 - 09:10 In Person: Move to Tregonwell Hall
🎥📍Tregonwell Hall 09:10 - 09:25 Partner Presentation
🎥📍Tregonwell Hall 09:25 - 10:30 Keynote Session 1 - Building Brighter Futures
09:25 - 09:30 Welcome from the chair and opening remarks
Alison Morton, OBE |CEO, Institute of Health Visiting
09:30 - 09:50 Start Before the Start: Minding the Gaps That Shape Life, Loss and Black Maternal Outcomes Dr Ruth Oshikanlu MBE |Executive Director, Goal Mind and Abule CIC
09:50 - 10:05 Shared reading: a critical component of the best start in life Julie Hayward | Director of Partnerships, BookTrust
Frank Cottrell-Boyce | Author and Screen Writer, Waterstones Children’s Laureate
10:05 - 10:10 Poem: The Gentle Power of Before Rachael Jay| Health Visiting Team Manager, Cornwall Council
10:10 - 10:30 Q&A
📍Purbeck Hall
10:30 - 11:00 Morning break: refreshments, poster displays and exhibition
11:00 - 11:05 Movement to concurrent session
🎥📍Location TBC 11:05 - 12:05 Concurrent 1: Safeguarding and trauma-informed care
Incorporating trauma recovery into safeguarding practice Kate Cairns | Trainer consultant, Knowledge, Change, Action Ltd
Recognising and making sense of child neglect - a health visiting perspective Frances Gunn| Service Manager, North Ayrshire HSCP
The Facilitators and Barriers to Understanding Families' Support Needs Lauren Alexis| Midwife/Doctoral Researcher, Keele University
📍Location TBC 11:05 - 12:05 Concurrent 2: Supporting babies and children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities
Enhancing Sensory Support for Families: Practitioner-Led Development Resource in Health Visiting Nikki Freeman| Health Visitor Clinical Lead for SEND, Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust
The Networks Neonatal Outreach Group (NNOG) Story: Parent Voice at the Heart of BAPM Neonatal Outreach Framework Heather O’Sullivan| Public Health Staff Nurse, Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust
Emma Johnston| Neonatal Parent & Family Engagement Lead, TVW ODN
Realising the potential health visiting teams have to support babies, children and families participating in the Generation Study Sally Shillaker| Practice Development Lead – Genomics, Institute of Health Visiting
📍Location TBC 11:05 - 12:05 Concurrent 3: Food insecurity and oral health inequalities
Making HABIT Accessible: Reducing Oral Health Inequalities in Diverse Communities Eleanor Forshaw| Dental Researcher, University of Leeds
Co-Producing toothPASTE: A Free Autism-Informed Oral-Health Support Package for Families and Early-Years Professionals Dr Amrit Chauhan | Lecturer in Qualitative Methodology and Autism-related Oral Health Research, University of Leeds
Supporting Parental Responsive feeding for Optimal Understanding of Thriving child development in households experiencing food insecurity (SPROUT): A qualitative study Dr Marie Spreckley | Researcher, University of Cambridge
Cara Ruggiero| Research Associate, University of Cambridge
📍Location TBC 11:05 - 12:05 Concurrent 4: Health Equity
Health visiting across cultures Victoria Gilroy| Director of Innovation and Research, Institute of Health Visiting
Developing a Health Visitor-Led Pathway for Alcohol Risk Reduction with Parents: The PARENT Project Update Jayne Walker | Senior Lecturer, University of Hull
Health Visitor Leadership: Advocating for Health Equity Among the Afghan Refugee Community Joanna Thompson | Health Visitor, Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust
📍Purbeck Hall
12:05 - 13:20 Lunch, poster displays and exhibition
13:20 - 13:25 Move to current sessions - online prepare to start
📍Location TBC 13:25 - 14:25 Concurrent 5: Professional Practice
Giving Families Opportunities and Resources for Early years Support Together (FOREST) Programme. An approach to early intervention in Somerset Catherine Bray | Specialist Health Visitor & FOREST Programme Manager, Somerset Council
Tracey Martin| FOREST Research Assistant, Somerset Council
Building Systems for Communication Success: Health Visiting and the Super Six Kathryn Morris | Early Years Senior Manager, Blackpool Better Start
Between Informal and Formal: The Unique Role of Health Visitors in Supporting Parental Networks and Responses to Childhood Illness Christopher Sweeney| Research fellow, Greater Glasgow & Clyde NHS Trust
📍Location TBC 13:25 - 14:25 Concurrent 6: Perinatal and Infant Mental Health
Evaluating the impact and acceptability of the ADBB/m-ADBB training programme Dr Sharin Baldwin| Senior Health Visiting Research Lead, Institute of Health Visiting
Reading Well for families: How books can support perinatal mental health Gemma Jolly| Head of Health and Wellbeing, The Reading Agency
Strengthening family support by Integrating Mental Health Practitioners into the MECSH Programme in Jersey and Guernsey Health Visiting Teams Claire Harvey | MECSH Lead-Health Visitor, Family Nursing and Home Care
Victoria Wiskin| MECSH Lead Health Visitor, Guernsey Health and Social Care
🎥📍Location TBC 13:25 - 14:25 Concurrent 7: Getting it right at the start
Little Sparks Big Starts Hilda Beauchamp| Perinatal & Infant Mental Health Lead, Institute of Health Visiting
Engaging Fathers in the First 1001 Days: Dad Matters, Powered by Home-Start, Improves Dad-Infant Relationships and Paternal Wellbeing Kieran Anders| Dad Matters Lead, Home-Start UK
The Developing Child UK Priority Setting Partnership: Research Priorities for Community-Based Support of Early Social and Emotional Development Dr Michael Fanner| Consultant Public Health Nurse, 0-19 Public Health Nursing, Croydon Health Services NHS Trust.
Starting solids and the latest public health recommendations on shop bought baby foods Dr Vicky Sibson| Director, First Steps Nutrition Trust
Embedding an Integrated Infant Feeding Team within the Homerton Enhanced Health Visiting Laura Crane | Enhanced Health Visiting Service - Infant Feeding Lead, Homerton Foundation NHS Trust
The Infant Feeding Team Ashley Ferguson| Infant Feeding Practitioner, Western Trust and Social Care Trust
14:25 - 14:35 Movement between rooms / Screen break
14:35 - 15:10 Breakout Oral Presentations Vote for the best presentation!
🎥📍Location TBC BOP1: Bridging the gaps
Addressing Financial Hardship Through Health Visiting: The HWFinEL Trial Hamida Serdiwala-White| Interim Head of Service 0-5, Tower Hamlets GP Care Group CIC
Invisible Dads (Fathers Pilot) reviewing paternal mental health and having healthy relationship conversations with new parents Dionne Mellor| Health Visitor, Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust Elaine Beech| Health Visiting Team Lead, Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust
Becoming parents by adoption: PhD study findings Tracey Hepworth-Long| Nurse Consultant, Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust
Implementing a clinical governance framework – exploring the experience of an Australian Maternal and Child Health Service Kathryn Ann Hindell| Professional Doctoral Student, La Trobe University
📍Location TBC BOP2: Applying professional learning and service design
Translating Research into Innovative Safeguarding Supervision Practice for Health Visitors and Supervisors Dr Michelle Moseley | Director of Programmes (Learning and Development), Institute of Health Visiting
Exploring the Lived Experience of Health Visitors Undertaking the New Baby Assessment at 10–14 Days Nicky Brown| Senior nurse, Department of Health and Social Care
Enhancing the Health Visiting offer in Hull Angie Rawling| Clinical Lead, Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust
Title TBC Amanda Holland| Professional Education, Learning and Development Lead, Institute of Health Visiting
📍Location TBC BOP3: Inclusive practice
Mothering with Autism – An Integrative Exploration of the Lived Experience of Autistic Mothers Helen Bolton| Health visitor, Citycare Partnership CIC
Transforming Perinatal and Infant Mental Health through iHV PIMH Champion Training Dr Louisa Clifford-Taylor| Health Visitor Research Associate, Institute of Health Visiting
Same Sex Couples Transition to Parenthood & Accepting HV Evidence-Based Advice Shirley Adebayo| Professional Development Nurse Lead (PDNL o-19 service), Royal Free Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Listening to the experiences of multiple birth care: a World Café method study Prof Elizabeth Bailey| Professor of Multiple Births and Midwifery, Birmingham City University
📍Location TBC BOP4: Supporting families with safeguarding or additional needs
Understanding experiences of families who have completed the Maternal Early Childhood Sustained Home-visiting (MECSH) programme in a London borough Mark Jordan| Public Health Service Development & Commissioning Lead, The Royal Borough of Kingston Upon Thames Hui Tham| MECSH Lead, Your Healthcare
Dorset Children's social care reform - Pathfinder Wave one Jill Warn| Lead for Families First Partnership Programme (Dorset & BCP Council) & Lead for Children, Young People and Families, Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust
Amanda Boclet| Service Manager CYP Public Health Service, Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust
Health Visitors in Prison Family Days: Strengthening Family Bonds & Improving Health Emily Pigott| Health Visitor, Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust
Michile Ashling | Health Visitor, Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust
Exploring lived experiences of young fathers with histories of childhood domestic abuse Dawn Brenchley| Postgraduate Researcher, University of Surrey
📍Purbeck Hall
15:10 - 15:35 Afternoon break: refreshments, exhibition and networking
🎥📍Tregonwell Hall 15:35 - 16:45 Keynote Session 2 - From Evidence to Action
15:35 - 15:40 Welcome back from the Chair
15:40 - 15:55 Knowledge Translation Prof Lynn Kemp| Distinguished Professor of Nursing, Western Sydney University
15:55 - 16:10 Quality vs Quantity Dr Alison Lamont| Senior Research Fellow, University College London
16:10 - 16:25 Leading with purpose: Turning Vision into Impact Alison Morton, OBE | CEO, Institute of Health Visiting plus two iHV Fellow Scholars
16:25 - 16:40 Q&A
16:40 - 16:45 Awards, raffle prize draw and closing remarks
16:45 - 17:30 Time to talk: Network with the iHV team