Growing up happy in England: evidence-based approaches to wellbeing and implications for policy
Date and time
Location
Institute Of Child Health
30 Guilford Street London WC1N 1EH United KingdomDescription
Focus
The mental health and wellbeing of children and young people are key policy priorities. The development of evidence-based approaches to improving wellbeing is vital to the development of effective policies and services.
Our conference will bring together a range of research perspectives, with a focus on the wider social determinants of wellbeing and the improvement of mental health and wellbeing in different settings.
The conference will draw together key messages for policy and future research.
Keynote Speaker
Professor Lord Richard Layard, Director, Wellbeing Programme, Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics
Who should attend?
Child health researchers, population scientists, mental health researchers, mental health practitioners and policy makers
Organised by
The Children's Policy Research Unit (CPRU) provides evidence for policy and practice for the health and wellbeing of children, young people and families.
It is a consortium led from the UCL Institute of Child Health (ICH) in partnership with the National Children's Bureau (NCB), the Anna Freud Centre and the Social Care Institute of Excellence (SCIE).
CPRU is funded as part of the Department of Health Policy Research Programme as the Policy Research Unit in the Health of Children, Young People and Families (2011-2017).
Population, Policy and Practice is one of five academic programmes based at the UCL Institute of Child Health. It comprises a multi-disciplinary group of researchers with an international reputation for population-level and clinical research that influences public health policy and practice.