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9:00
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Registration with coffee and tea and space for meeting people
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9:45
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Adam Ingram MSP — Minister for Children and Early Years — Welcome
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10:10
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Colwyn Trevarthen — Introduction and Overview of the Day. What developmental science says about how infants and toddlers learn.
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10:20
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Tina Bruce — Background on early childhood education, with special reference to Scotland. The importance of play.
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11:00
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Alan Sinclair — The economic case for investing in early years.
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11:30
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John Carnochan — Links between youth crime and early years. Anti-social behaviour in young people and violence at home in infancy.
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12:00
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Tam Baillie — How life is for Scotland's small children and what to do to make it both safe and rich in imagining and learning
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12:30
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Lunch
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13:30
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Aline-Wendy Dunlop — An Enlightened Educational Policy - The Scottish early childhood tradition.
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14:15
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Harry Burns — Healthy and active children become healthy and productive adults. How can medical services care for those who have missed a loving, confident and nourishing start?
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15:00
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Coffee and Tea with Fruit and Cake
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15:30
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Ingela Naumann — A child-centred social investment strategy. Lessons from Sweden.
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16:00
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Suzanne Zeedyk — Creating the world we want - by reflecting anew on how we relate to our children
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16:30
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Discussion with Concluding Comments and Future Directions, Chaired by Lesley Riddoch, to summarise the whole conference and to place the needs and rights of children in the present-day context of Edinburgh and Scottish practice, government policy, and trends in society, family life, and employment.
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17:30
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Close
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