Conference 2008 - Putting Children First: best practice in support to separated families

Conference 2008 - Dexter House, London EC3

The Best practice in support to separated families conference brought together policy makers, practitioners and academics working in the field of family separation in London on 16 October 2008.

Guest speakers included Stephen Geraghty, Commissioner for Child Maintenance, Anthony Douglas, Chief Executive of Cafcass andRt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP together with a range of specialist seminars and a panel of experts.

The conference, hosted by the Centre for Separated Families, was intended to look at what services already existed, look at how those might be strengthened and examine areas where more were needed.

Conference Policy Paper
Conference Policy Document Final Version
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Conference Programme
Conference programme.pdf
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Conference Speakers and Panel Members
Speakers and Panel.pdf
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Conference Seminars
Seminar list.pdf
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Click the first image to open the slide show.

CSF President Kathleen Saxton opens the conference

Stephen Geraghty, Commissioner for Child Maintenance, talks about Options

Cafcass Chief Executive, Anthony Douglas, addresses the conference

CSF Director, Karen Woodall, calls for new ways of working

Delegates debate a point in one of the seminars

Delegates working in one of the nine specialist seminars

Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith - Founder of the Centre for Social Justice

Sarah Hart, author of A Mother Apart, answers a question put to the panel

District Judge Nick Crichton and panel chair Margaret Gilmore

Photographs by Peter Byrne www.peterbyrne.co.uk