Symposium Presentations
Presentations are available to download below.
Symposium 1
Session 1:
Early Beginnings: Strengthening Parental Support in Pregnancy and the First Months
“There was nobody around me…”- Understanding parents’ experiences of early pregnancy support in Glasgow (Govan)
Embedding Father-Inclusive Practice perinatally: The Impact of Dad Matters, Powered by Home-Start
Baby’s Best Beginning: A Psychology-Informed, Joint Formulation Model Supporting Babies on the Edge of Care
Session 2:
Local Voices, Local Change: Co‑Production as a Driver of Early Years Integration
Nourishing Our Future: Exploring food and nutrition provision and education in Essex early years settings.
An Early Years and Place-Based Common Practice Framework: integrating practice-based experience and research evidence
Developing Integrated Pathways to Support Children’s Development in Halton: A Partnership Approach
Session 3:
Tackling Inequalities from the Start: Insights from Communities, Families and Practice
Working with Communities to Tackle Early Years Inequalities: Learning What Works and Why
Too young to count? Why most disadvantaged under-5s miss out on free meals
Embedding Lived Experience in Co-Production: Building Inclusive Systems and Communities in Blackpool
Early Intervention: improving social and emotional development outcomes for adopted children in a parent-toddler group
Session 4:
Growing Social and Emotional Wellbeing: Strengthening Early Relationships and Attuned Practice
Building Early Relationships: Developing a Regional Hub-and-Spoke Parent–Infant Relationship Model Across Blackpool and Blackburn with Darwen
Living Lives Together – The impact on children’s development when learning alongside grandfriends within an intergenerational nursery.
Cardiff Parenting & Play: Embedding Mentalisation to improve outcomes for families
Building Early Attuned Relationships (BEARs) – co-produced awareness raising for the early years’ workforce.
Symposium 2
Session 5:
Foundations for Learning: Speech, Language and Communication Approaches for School Readiness
Enhancing Student’s Confidence and Competence in Supporting the Early Home Learning Environment
Developing a toolbox for early years practitioners who assess toddlers’ speech, language and communication needs
Research Circle: Exploring outdoor nature-based literacy learning with families of under-fives
Session 6:
Transforming Early Years Systems: Scaling What Works Through Community and Evidence
Start for Life: Lessons learned from scaling Triple P for Baby across England
Community Champions as Trusted Messengers: Sharing Early Brain Science Development with Carers in Everyday Settings. An Action for Children approach.
Session 7:
Voices From the Start: Using Infant Experience to Shape Better Care and Family Support
Better Together: A relational approach to building a National Framework to Strengthen Parent–Infant Relationships
‘Hold our story with us’: helping parents and professionals understand the impact of neonatal care
Giving a Voice to the Voiceless: Embedding the Infant Voice in Whole-Family Domestic Abuse Intervention
How to be ‘Prem Aware’ – Ensuring a Best Start in Life for Children Born Prematurely
Session 8:
Growing Great Practice: Workforce Development for Stronger Early Childhood Outcomes
GM REFLECT: A single competency framework designed to recognise and strengthen the skills and knowledge of the Greater Manchester workforce
Supporting Parent-Infant Relationships Equitably (SPIRE): A mixed-methods evaluation of the Start for Life prompts for holding relationships in mind.
NB: The views expressed in these documents are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of Better Start.
