This annual 2 day conference and exhibition is the largest gathering of health visitors, school nurses, community nursery nurses and associated colleagues in the UK.

With keynote presentations from leading government policy makers, clinical innovators, insights from education and research plus practical leadership briefings on the huge management challenges in health services. The event provides the most concise and up to date briefing for those leading and active in community nursing at a time of great change.

Presentations will address how to help children reach their full potential and helping the most vulnerable 120,000 families in the UK, giving all children the best start in life and caring for them through school years. This is the challenge for health visitors, school nurses, community nursery nurses and associated colleagues.

With the abolition of Primary Care Trusts, Modernising the Community Workforce in Scotland and changing roles in schools, plus the shift of public health work to local authorities, community nurses are going through a period of intense change in their work and employment.

This conference and exhibition will

• Bring you up to date with the policy development that will affect practice in the coming year, including the new GP led commissioning
• Highlight the best innovations and working practices from around the UK
• Update on the Implementation Plan for Health Visiting and the Development Plan for School Nurses
• Review the new employment destinations of nurses after the closure of PCTs
• Look at the safeguarding of children and the rules and practices needed
• Help understand the impact of information technology on the working of nurses across the community
• Look at the opportunities arising for using social networking media to promote health
• Look at the risks social networking media creates for children and professionals
• Learn from different experiences in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and internationally
• Understand the implications for school nursing of the new academies in England
• Hear the latest information on employment trends and professional structures
• Look at the evolving regulations and standards environment and the implications for health visitors, school nurses, community nursery nurses and associated colleagues
• Examine how public health nursing is focusing back to its local government and community roots
• Provide a professional exhibition
• Contribute to your CPD requirements