TreeHouse at party conferences

TreeHouse at the 2008 Party Conference

Every September the TreeHouse Policy team attend each major political party’s conference. We hold fringe events around the main speeches and debates, attended by politicians, party members and colleagues from the children’s and disability sector. Fringe events are a great opportunity to raise the TreeHouse profile, promote our aims and build productive relationships with national and local decision makers, party members and relevant professionals.

This year we are holding our fringe events in partnership with the Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID) and the National Union of Teachers (NUT) with the title ‘Improving Inclusion: Getting it right for the 1 in 5 children with Special Educational Needs (SEN)’. To coincide with the events we produced a research report on inclusive education. Please read the TreeHouse Inclusion Research Report.

We are attending the Liberal Democrats, Labour and Conservative Party conferences, along with the Trade Union Congress. Details of our fringe events are as follows:

Conservatives

Tuesday 30 September 2008
12.30 – 2pm in Hall 7 of the Birmingham International Conference Centre

Labour

Tuesday 23 September 2008
8 – 9.30am in the Fairclough Suite at the Midland Hotel

Liberal Democrats

Sunday 14 September 2008
1 – 2pm in the Shaftesbury Suite at the Highcliff Marriott Hotel

Trade Union Congress

Monday 8 September 2008
5.45 – 7pm in Meeting Room 6 at the Brighton Centre

TreeHouse at the 2007 Party Conferences

TreeHouse was at all the Party Conferences last year, holding fringe events with Working Families and Scope. For more information see the flyers below: