Teenage mothers and young fathers: challenges and opportunities

This is our fifth annual conference on the early years of life. The purpose of our conference is to enhance our understanding of the stresses and strains of being a teenage parent.

This conference will be relevant to midwives, health visitors, early year's workers, parents (including foster and adoptive), psychologists, paediatricians, social workers, G.P.'s, youth workers, housing providers and others working in this field.

Speakers will be: Kate Billingham - Project Director - Family Nurse Partnership Programme

Dr Margot Waddell - Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist - Tavistock Clinic

Prof Joan Raphael-Leff - Leader -Teen Parenting Project, Anna Freud Centre

Adrienne Burgess - Head of Research - Fatherhood Institute