Relationships and Resilience: Addressing childhood adversity to support children's learning and wellbeing
The event provided the opportunity for health and education colleagues to come together to learn and share practice on preventing and responding to adverse childhood experiences, linking this to key approaches in nurture and health and wellbeing within education.
Event description
NHS Health Scotland organised this conference with Education Scotland and the Scottish Government.
This event was attended by strategic leads at local authority and senior managers at school level as well as public health and health improvement colleagues.
The programme included a mixture of plenary speakers who have a key focus in this area and workshops. Some of their presentations are available to view below.
Plenary presentations
You can view presentations by
Professor Sir Harry Burns, Professor of Global Public Health at Strathclyde University and Alyson Francis, Director, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Support Hub, Cymru Well Wales
Video presentations
You can view video presentations by
Dr Linda de Caestecker, Director of Public Health, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and Chair of the Scottish ACEs Hub
Professor Sir Harry Burns, Professor of Global Public Health, University of Strathclyde
Alyson Francis, Director, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Support Hub, Cymru Well Wales
Panel Discussion;
Dr Linda de Caestecker, Director of Public Health, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and Chair of the Scottish ACEs Hub
Sir Harry Burns, Professor of Global Public Health, University of Strathclyde
Alyson Francis, Director, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Support Hub, Cymru Well Wales
Gail Noweck, Education Officer, Education Scotland
Darren McGarvey, Rapper, Social Commentator and Author of ‘Poverty Safari’
Breakout presentations
You can view the following presentations
1. Renfrewshire Nurturing Relationships Approach: An educational approach to supporting adverse childhood experiences and building resilience - Amy Nolan, Sandra Menary, Ciara Briggs (Educational Psychologists) and Claire McLaren (Our Lady of Peace Primary School)
2. Towards the Nurturing City: education as a vehicle for tackling poverty, addressing ACEs and building resilience - Alison Crawford, Principle Educational Psychologist, Maura Kearney, Deputy Principle Psychologist and Nancy Cluny, Head Teacher
3. Building resilience in the school environment - Jen Myddleton, Development Officer, Health and Wellbeing, Edinburgh City Council and Dr Adam Burley, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, NHS Lothian
4. Links between speech and language, attachment, literacy and reducing the impact of ACEs - James McTaggart, Educational Psychologist and Rebecca Castelo, Speech and Language Therapist, Highland Council
5. The Dundee Approach to addressing ACEs - Sarah Anderson, Education Support Officer for Health and Wellbeing at Dundee City Council and Dr Tamasin Knight, Consultant in public health, NHS Tayside
6. ‘Flipping the thinking’ on poverty and its impact on children’s outcomes - Dr Morag Treanor, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Stirling
Contact
Please contact the planning team for further information.