Maternal and Early Years National Conference 2015
Thursday 21 May 2015
Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh
Call for Abstracts
Would you like to share your work at this year’s Maternal and Early Years conference?
The conference planning group is inviting you to show case your work. We’re looking for
creative, innovative and challenging practice examples of how you are delivering in partnership
to reach the most vulnerable children and their families.
The purpose of our call for abstracts is to:
 provide a platform for the voice of the early years practitioners at the national
conference
 enrich the national programme with insight from our early years workforce
 share promising and challenging local practice and enable meaningful discussion
 ignite valuable and lasting relationships
The theme of the 2015 Conference is The Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 (C&YP
Act). The programme includes plenary presentations from NHS Health Scotland, Scottish
Government, Education Scotland and Third Sector colleagues, with a focus on how partnerships
are enabling responsive action to delivery.
The conference planning group welcome submissions of work originating from, or being
accelerated by, the Act which are improving health outcomes, tackling health inequalities and
igniting or reinforcing partnership working under the following themes:
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A multiagency approach to GIRFEC (e.g. Health, Education and Social Services)delivering effectively in partnership
Corporate parenting -policy into practice
Early Learning and Childcare – Making it better for Scotland’s Two’s
Effective Third Sector Collaboration- a local practice example
The Early Years Collaborative - improving the quality of health outcomes for children
Health & Justice- Better Health, Better Care for Children with families, parent(s) or carer(s)
in the criminal justice system
Tackling Child Poverty- delivering a better deal for children and young people in low-income
families
Your submission may be an example of evidence & research, delivery or evaluation practice under
the themes identified above and could relate, for example, to any of the following; identification of
target populations, prevention, early intervention, embedding services into mainstream practice,
capacity and skills building, design of interventions, health inequalities impact assessment,
equalities impact assessment, improvement and quality of practice.
(Please note that these are suggestions and are not intended to be prescriptive.)
To submit your work, please complete the abstract submission form, returning via email to:
[email protected] no later than 12 Noon on Thursday 19 March.
Please note that we will not accept submissions for work which has a commercial link or
benefit.
Abstract Submission Form
For submission to Parallel Session, please complete sections: 1, 2, 3(A) & 3(B)
For submission to host a Marketplace Stand, please complete sections: 1, 2 & 4
Section 1: Presentation Lead/ Organisation Details
Title
Name
Designation
Organisation
E-mail
Telephone no
Section 2: Category of Submission
Please indicate with an X which category you wish to enter a submission to - this cannot be
both, a separate form should be submitted for each return.
Parallel Session – Presentation (30 minutes) and facilitated
thematic discussion (30 minutes)
Marketplace Stand
Section 3 (A): Submission to present Parallel Session
Please indicate which of the following themes your work corresponds to (max 2)
A multiagency approach to GIRFEC (Health, Education and
Social Services)- delivering effectively in partnership
Corporate parenting -policy into practice
Early Learning and Childcare – Making it better for Scotland’s
Two’s
Effective Third Sector Collaboration- a local practice example
The Early Years Collaborative - improving the quality of health
outcomes for children
Health & Justice- Better Health, Better Care for Children with
families, parent(s) or carer(s) in the criminal justice system
Tackling Child Poverty- delivering a better deal for children and
young people in low-income families
Section 3 (B): Parallel Session Abstract Details
Session Title
Parallel session abstracts will be reviewed against the following, please consider including detail
on the following:
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Relevance to conference theme (The Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014)
Partnership working/collaborative action
Support for children and families health and wellbeing
Inequalities approach
Understanding of local area/ need
Research, monitoring and evaluation principles
Abstract
(word limit:
1000 words)
Please note,
additional
information,
including
supporting
documents/files
may be
requested
following initial
review.
Section 4: Submission to host a Marketplace Stand
Organisation
information
Proposal for
stand:
- Relevance to
conference
theme
- Information and
resources
shared
Please provide a simple overview of your organisations remit, details of the
information and materials/ resources which will be available at your
marketplace stand.
Stand Host
Details:
- Delegate(s)
name
- Delegate(s) job
title
How to submit:
All Submissions must be returned via email to:
[email protected]
No later than 12 Noon on Thursday 19 March 2015
Please mark ‘EY15 presentation’ in the subject heading.
If you have questions relating to the process for submission please email [email protected]
in the first instance or call 0141 414 2779. All submissions will be acknowledged upon receipt
(by reply email).
Submissions will be considered by the Maternal and Early Years Network Reference Network
Group. Following review in early April, successful applications will be notified as soon as possible.
Registration instructions, parallel session and marketplace briefs will be shared at this time.
All submissions will also be considered for entry as a case study to the Maternal and Early Years
Network website and newsletter in due course, communication on this will follow the conference
delivery.
The Maternal and Early Years Network is grateful for your consideration and time commitment on
this submission.
Please note that we will not accept submissions when the work has a commercial link or
benefit.
And finally, don’t forget to keep up with what’s happening at the Early Years
National Conference 2015 on twitter and social media using the hashtags
#EYNC #EYHS