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18th June : 10:00 am – 4:30 pm
The TCPA will be hosting a FREE in-person conference in Birmingham on June 18 2024.
Where people live affects their ability to live healthy and long lives. For children and young people who are rapidly developing physically, emotionally and socially, their environments can have profound impacts on their lives and opportunities as they grow up and transition to adulthood.
This event will explore the relationship between children, young people and the built environment, the critical importance of creating healthy places in which they can thrive, the challenges and opportunities, and will also highlight case studies of place-based practice from local authorities and the private sector.
This event has kindly been supported by Sport England:
Please see the draft agenda below (please note, the agenda will be confirmed on the 3rd of June)
Session 1: ‘Developing well’ – creating places and spaces where children and young people thrive | |
10:00 | Registration and networking |
10:30 | Welcome and introduction Fiona Howie – Chief Executive, TCPA |
10:35 | Keynote Presentation Anne Longfield CBE – Executive Chair, Centre on Young Lives |
10:55 | Q&A |
Session 2: Why is creating places and spaces where children and young people can ‘develop well’ so important? | |
11:10 | Welcome and introductions Riva Kapoor – Honorary Treasurer, TCPA |
11:15 | Panel responses: Dr William Bird MBE – GP, CEO Intelligent Health, Hon. Prof University of Exeter Tim Gill – Independent researcher and author of ‘Urban Playground: How child-friendly planning and design can save cities’ Dr Jenny Wood – Co-founder and Co-director, Policy and Research, A Place in Childhood |
12:00 | Q&A |
12:30 | Lunch and networking |
Session 3: What can Local Authorities do, across their roles and powers, to create environments where children and young people ‘develop well’? | |
13:30 | Introduction Gemma Hyde – Projects and Policy Manager, TCPA |
13:35 | Child friendly Leeds Jenny Rutherford – Play Strategy Officer, Leeds City Council Cllr Helen Hayden – Executive Member for Children and Families and Play Champion, Leeds City Council Tomas Johnson – Senior Planning Officer, Leeds City Council |
14:00 | Youth Engagement in the Greater Cambridge Shared Planning Area Dr Bonnie Kwok – Principal Urban Designer & Youth Engagement Lead, Greater Cambridge Shared Planning Heather Jones – Deputy Director of Planning, Greater Cambridge Shared Planning |
14:20 | Q&A |
14:40 | Tea, coffee and networking |
Session 4: How can the private sector collaborate and bring forward the voices of children and young people in development and shaping environments? | |
15:05 | Introduction Andrew Pritchard – Chair of Trustees, TCPA |
15:10 | Youth voice in regeneration schemes and the Voice Opportunity Power engagement toolkit Dinah Bornat – Director, ZCD Architects |
15:25 | Taking a child-friendly approach in new, large scale development Johanne Thomas – Regional Director for Communities and Partnerships, Urban and Civic |
15:40 | Creating play sufficiency in rural and semi-rural Wales Ben Tawil – Director, Ludicology, and Mike Barclay – Director, Ludicology |
15:55 | Q&A |
16:20 | Closing remarks Gemma Hyde – Projects and Policy Manager, TCPA |
16:30 | Close |