09:00 to 09:45

Introductory session: A new economic, social and political context for child policies?
Welcoming messages:
John Martin, Director for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, OECD
Daniel Kropf, Chair of The Learning for Well-being Consortium in Europe
Isabelle Maquet, Deputy Head of Unit Social Analysis, European Commission
Gordon Alexander, Director of UNICEF Office of Research
Presenters: Gerlinde Verbist (University of Antwerp), Lina Salanauskaite (Maastricht University) [paper] [presentation] and Gordon Alexander (Unicef IRC)

09:45 to 11:15

Session 1: Why do some countries fare so well in international comparisons of child outcomes? And how portable are their methods?
Moderator: Peter Adamson
Presenters:
Chris De Neubourg (Unicef IRC) [paper1] [paper2] [presentation]
Markus Jantti (Swedish Institute for Social Research)
Lára Björnsdóttir (Ministry of Welfare, Iceland) [paper1] [paper2] [presentation]

11:15 to 11:45

COFFEE/TEA

11:45 to 13:00

Session 2: Prioritising child well-being in policy through Learning for Well-being.
Moderator: Roberto Carneiro

Presenters:

Roberto Carneiro (Universidade Católica Portuguesa) [paper]

Linda O'Toole (Universal Education Foundation) [presentation]
Simon Wilson (Policy Expert / Eurochild)
Daniel Kropf (Universal Education Foundation)

13:00 to 14:30

LUNCH

14:30 to 15:30

Session 3: Informing policy with available data: Evaluating surveys and building knowledge.
Moderator:  Angela Hariche (OECD)
Presenter: Dominic Richardson (OECD) [presentation]

15:30 to 16:00

COFFEE/TEA

16:00 to 18:00

Session 4: New international data collection initiatives.
Moderator:  Jonathan Bradshaw (University of York)
Presenters:
Nabil Ali (OECD) - The OECD’s Child well-being module: a database of existing cross-national statistics, gaps and relevant national sources of data; [presentation]
Attila Hancioglu (UNICEF) - Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys and Inclusion of New Modules; [presentation]
Anne-Catherine Guio (CEPS/INSTEAD) - Findings from the 2009 EU-SILC special module on children’s material deprivation; [paper]
Laura Lippman (Child Trends US) - The “Learning for Well-being” conceptual framework as a basis for survey and assessment tools; [paper 1] and [paper 2] [presentation]
Asher Ben-Arieh (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)- The recent pilots of a new cross-national survey “IscWeb” of children’s lives and times use at ages 8, 10 and 12. [presentation]

Siraj Mahmudlu (Unicef) TRANSMONEE - an information system to support evidence based policies for children [paper]

18:00 to 20:00

RECEPTION

09:00 to 10:30

Session 5: Work on childhood and policies in the early years: data and analysis.
Moderator: Lawrence Berger (University of Wisconsin)
Presenters:
Sharon Goldfeld (Royal Children’s Hospital and the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Australia) [paper1] [paper2] [paper3] [presentation]
Maria Huerta (OECD) [paper] [presentation]

Anaïs Loizillon and Yoshie Kaga (UNESCO) [paper] [presentation]

10:30 to 11:00

COFFEE/TEA

11:00 to 12:30

Session 6: Work on childhood and policies in middle childhood: data and analysis.
Moderator:  Francesca Borgonovi (OECD)

Presenters:
Sabine Andersen (University of Frankfurt) [paper] [presentation]
Marion Devaux (OECD) [paper] [presentation]
Tess Ridge (University of Bath) [paper] [presentation]

 12:30 to 14:00

 LUNCH

14:00 to 15:30

Session 7: Work on late childhood and youth policies: data and analysis.
Moderator: Maria Herczog (Eurochild)
Presenters:
Ferran Casas (University of Girona) [paper] [presentation]
Candace Currie (University of Edinburgh) [presentation]
Anne Sonnet (OECD) [paper] [presentation]

Jean Anne Kennedy (Learning for Well-being Youth Movement) [presentation]

15:30 to 16:00

COFFEE/TEA

16:00 to 18:00

Session 8: Meeting summary – next steps Innovation in policies for children.
Moderator: Willem Adema (OECD)

 18:00

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