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The Children & Young People Now Show 2009 will consist of three major elements:

Exhibition

Visitors will be able to meet leading suppliers showcasing their products and services.

Interactive Workshops

Designed to provide essential guidance for visitors, there are five workshop streams based on key elements of The Children's Plan:

Children's Centres and Extended Schools

With the 2010 deadline for building and developing a children's centre and extended school in every community fast approaching, local authorities and their partners are turning their attention to ensuring the long-term sustainability of their settings and services. Featured workshops include:

• How cool are you? How to ensure your extended services appeal to teenagers
  
• A partnership of equals: Building strong and solid links between children's centres, extended schools and communities
  
• Do you have enough? How do children's centres and extended schools guarantee there's enough local childcare for parents and children?
• Early Years foundation stage: A children's centre success story
• Take up the challenge: What works in supporting parents to take up formal childcare

Health & Wellbeing

The government's child health strategy will up the ante on practitioners to work effectively together to improve the health of all children, right through from birth to the onset of adulthood. Featured workshops include:

• The future of health visiting
• Getting children and families cooking
• Make your disabled children's services fit for purpose
• Mental health: A meeting of minds
  
• Preventing drug and alcohol misuse

Leadership & Collaboration

In order to help make England the best place in the world for children and young people to grow up in, the Government wants every part of the workforce to have strong professional leadership, which is committed to excellence. Featured workshops include:

• Tomorrow's leader: Succession planning and rentention
• Who leads the leaders: developement programmes for existing leaders
  
• Leadership master classes in Early Years,Play, Extended Schools, Social Work, Social care, Youth Work, Voluntary and Community Sector Leadership
• The potential of integrated working and multi-agency teams
  
• Beyond the school gate 21st century school leadership and Every Child Matters
• Can health and local authorities really together?

Sponsored by Children's Workforce Development Council

Play

With the national play strategy promising to improve up to 3500 play areas and create 30 new adventure playgrounds, local authorities are grappling with how to ensure these areas are fun, safe and properly resourced. Featured workshops include:

• Implementing the play strategy: A guide for planners and children's services professionals
• Kick the 'no ball games' culture into touch
  
• The art of design- how to make play areas exciting yet safe
• A sense of adventure
  
• Working hard to play hard

Positive Activities for Young People

The publication last year of Aiming High for Young People makes very clear the importance the Government places on ensuring that young people across the country no longer face a postcode lottery when it comes to accessing high-quality activities in settings that are fit for purpose. Featured workshops include:

• What is positive acitvity?
• Something for the weekend
• The place for faith
  
• 21st century youth clubs
• Culture vultures

Conference

More than 100 delegates are expected at this high-level, strategic one-day conference that focuses on developments in the world of children and young people's services.