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Online registration for the Children & Young People Now Show is now closed. Click here to download a copy of the registration form. Please complete prior to arrival at the exhibition. Admission is £10.

Since the launch of Every Child Matters, the children and young people's workforce has undergone a period of unprecedented change. While these changes are beginning to have an effect, there is still much to be done to achieve the Government's aim of making the UK the best place in the world for children and young people to grow up in.

The Children & Young People Now Show 2009 aims to help fulfil this ambition and will, for the first time, provide essential guidance to all those professionals working to deliver the Government's Every Child Matters agenda locally. There will also be a high-level children's centre conference running on the second day of the show, entitled 'Locally responsive, high-quality children's centres', which will examine how to draw in and engage with families. Click here for further conference details.

Held at London's Brompton Hall, Earls Court, on 19 and 20 May, the two-day exhibition builds on the success of its predecessor, the Children's Centre & Extended School Show, which focused on the Government's targets of setting up children's centres and extended schools in every community by 2010.

Visitors will be able to browse for information from a range of the UK's top organisations. A series of free interactive workshops will also run throughout the show, which will enable visitors to get up to speed on the latest policy developments, outlined in The Children's Plan, and to pick up fresh ideas on working with and providing services for children, young people and their families.

As a result, the show is open to anyone working within education, childcare, social work, health care, youth and community work at all levels.

With the support of the sector's leading magazines, the Children & Young People Now Show 2009 is a unique opportunity to meet 3000+ decision makers with responsibility for implementing the government's plans for children and young people.

'The show will offer practitioners involved in the planning and delivery of children's services sound advice as well as practical support. Children's services are changing and many practitioners will be asking what the new developments will mean for them.' Sally Whitaker, Deputy Chief Executive, NCB