Please note all events are inside the secure zone and attendees must hold a Labour Party Conference pass.

Monday 23 September  

 08:00 – 09:30 NHSA and Lancaster University Breakfast Roundtable – Harnessing Health Innovation: How to build a healthier and wealthier UK.
Venue: Leonardo Hotel- Meeting Room 1 

Chair: Oliver Coppard, Mayor of South Yorkshire

Panel includes Hannah Davies, CEO, Northern Health Science Alliance

Private Roundtable 

The event will bring together health science research leaders from across the North and give ample opportunity to explore how life sciences and health innovations can create 21st-century NHS and a healthier and wealthier UK. 

This is a private roundtable, if you would like to attend please email alexis.darby@thenhsa.co.uk

10:00 to 11:30 – Getting the Child Poverty Strategy Right: Key Lessons for an Effective, Ambitious Approach. The York Policy Engine, Child Poverty Action Group and NHSA.
Venue: Leonardo Hotel – Meeting Room 1

Roundtable event

The new government has committed to a child poverty strategy, which will be a centrepiece of efforts to tackle rising levels of child poverty. But what should this strategy focus on? And what does the research evidence – both in the UK and internationally – tell us about what works, and what matters, in effective anti-poverty work? 

Tuesday 24 September  

08:30 to 10:00- Health Equity North – Woman of the North: inequality, health and work.
Venue: Leonardo Hotel – Meeting Room 1  

Private Roundtable 

This event will focus on what can be done to close the unequal challenges and inequity women in the North face compared to those in the rest of the country. Women in the North are more likely to live shorter lives in poorer mental and physical health and to work more hours for less pay. On top of this, they are more likely to be an unpaid carer, live in poverty and to have fewer qualifications.  

We will be joined by

• Jess Phillips MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls)
• Tracy Brabin Mayor of West Yorkshire
• Kim McGuinness, Mayor of the North East
• Professor Louise Kenny, Executive Pro-Vice-Chancellor, University of Liverpool

 10:30 to 12:00 – Reframing the child poverty agenda. Heseltine Institute and NHSA Roundtable  

Venue: Leonardo Hotel – Meeting Room 1
 

Despite an array of literature and research on the drivers and consequences of child and family poverty, there remains an urgent need to position child poverty at the heart of policy decisions. At this roundtable, we will explore how local approaches can be successfully embedded into place-based policymaking. 

We will be joined by

• Kim Johnson Labour Member of Parliament for Liverpool Riverside and Officer of the Child of the North APPG

• Professor David Taylor-Robinson, Academic Co-Director Health Equity North, and Professor of Public Health and Policy at the University of Liverpool

12:30 – 14:00 – Child of the North Panel Event –  How can a Labour Government tackle child poverty and create opportunity for children across the North?

Northern Health Science Alliance and Health Equity North  

Venue:  Leonardo Hotel – Meeting Room 1

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 This panel event will focus on addressing inequalities confronting children across the North examining the importance of the first 1,000 days of a child’s life, and the Labour Party’s strategies aimed at breaking down barriers to opportunity, raising standards and creating a better future for children across our region. 

We will be joined by:

• Chair – Kate Proctor, UK News Lead for Save the Children and child poverty spokesperson
• Terri White, Journalist and Campaigner
• Bridget Phillipson MP, Secretary of State for Education (invited)
• Anna Turley MP for Redcar
• Kim McGuinness, Mayor of North East
• Professor David Taylor-Robinson, Academic Co-Director Health Equity North, and Professor of Public Health and Policy at the University of Liverpool
• Professor Kate Pickett, Academic Co-Director Health Equity North, and Professor of Epidemiology, University of York