Brighter Futures Conference
This year's conference is for everyone working in children's services across the city of Birmingham - in health, police, voluntary sector, council, colleges, schools, nurseries, children's centres, etc.

The conference contains an exhibition of services, informative and interesting seminars and entertainment by some of Birmingham's children and young people.

The theme of this year's conference is:
Improving Outcomes for Children and Young People in Birmingham and we are honoured to have two eminent keynote speakers from Washington, USA:

• Steve Aos, Associate Director of Washington State Institute for Public Policy
• Dr J David Hawkins PhD, Founding Director of the Social Development Research Group, School of Social Work, University of Washington, Seattle

There is a full programme of related workshops in which you can share expertise, best practice and ideas that reflect this year's conference theme.

Go to the Feature Articles page to download the presentations from the keynote speeches and workshops.

Go to the Media Releases page to read the most recent stories issued.