Robert Tapsfield, Chief Executive, The Fostering Network; Chair, Kinship Care Alliance - Chair’s opening remarks;
Jean Stogdon, Co-Chair, Grandparents Plus - Introduction and welcome;
Sir Martin Narey, Government Advisor on Children's Social Care Adoption reform and what that means for kinship care;
Sam Smethers, Chief Executive, Grandparents Plus - What are the major challenges facing kinship carers and social workers? What should the response be?;
Elaine Arnold, Director, Separation and Reunion Forum - Who are we? How important is identity to us? What does it mean for children?;
Above speakers plus Helen Jones, Children in Care Division, Department for Education - Panel discussion.

John Simmonds, Director of Policy, Research and Development, British Association for Adoption and Fostering - Meeting the challenge: What is the future direction for children’s services?;
Nigel Richardson, Director Children’s Services, Leeds City Council - Case study: the approach in Leeds;
Meg Boustead, Head of Safeguarding, Sunderland City Council;
Sue Robson, Kinship Carer, More Than Grandparents Group - Case study: the approach in Sunderland;
Phillip McGill, Child Psychotherapist, Fostering, Adoption and Kinship Care Team, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust - CAMHS and kinshp - perspectives from a specialist CAMHS team;
Panel discussion.

Natasha Finlayson, Chief Executive, Who Cares? Trust -Afternoon chair’s remarks;
Professor Jean McFadden, Professor of Social Work, Grand Valley State University, Michigan - Grandparents raising grandchildren in the USA:
Professor Elaine Farmer, Professor of Child and Family Studies, University of Bristol - Outcomes for children in kinship care: what does research tell us?;
Lisa Nandy MP, Shadow Children's Minister - What is Labour's vision for children on the edge of care;
Nigel Priestley,Senior Partner, Ridley and Hall Solicitors - What role for the courts in all this?;
Panel discussion: Why kinship matters - why it can be the solution.

Hedi Argent, Independent Family Placement Consultant and Trainer

Sarah Wellard, Director of Policy, Research and Communications, Grandparents Plus;
Jo Raine, Advice Service Manager, Grandparents Plus

Doug Lawson, Independent Consultant;
Andrew Brown, Mentor UK;
Nigel Priestley, Senior Solicitor, Ridley and Hall Solicitors.

Tim Fisher, Family Group Conference Service Manager, Children Schools and Families, London Borough of Camden

Joan Blackman, Team Manager, Adoption and Permanence Team, Sutton Children’s Services