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Agenda

Connecting data to improve public service delivery

Date: 23rd February 2026
Venue: Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester

09:30 – 10:00 Arrival and Registration


10:00 – 10:20 Welcome

Professor Mark Mon-Williams, Child of the North Leadership Group

Growing Up Well in the North of England

Speakers:

  • Baroness Anne Longfield CBE, Executive Chair & Founder, Centre for Young Lives
  • Haroon Chowdry, Chief Executive, Centre for Young Lives


10:20 – 10:50 Keynote Speech

How connected data reveals the impact of SEND across the lifespan and across services

Speaker:

  • Professor Marianne van den Bree, Professor of Psychological Medicine, MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, and the Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute, Cardiff University


10:50 – 11:20 Refreshment Break and Networking


11:20 – 11:50 Data Infrastructure in the North of England

Speakers:

  • Health Determinants Research Collaborations (HDRCs)
  • NIHR Applied Research Collaborations (ARCs)
  • ESRC Vulnerabilities & Policing Futures Research Centre


11:50 – 12:30 Data Assets in the North of England

Speakers:

  • #BeeWell
  • Born in Bradford and Connected Bradford
  • Born and Bred In Network (BaBi)
  • Civic Health Innovation Labs / Children Growing Up in Liverpool (C-GULL)


12:30 – 13:30 LUNCH


13:30 – 14:30 Case Studies

Speakers:

  • Representatives of SEND and data projects from across the North of England


14:30 – 15:00 HMG Policy Priorities


15:00 – 15:50 Panel Discussion: Next Steps for Collaboration

Speakers:

  • Policy officials and representatives of the research community
  • Chaired by Haroon Chowdry, Centre for Young Lives


15:50 – 16:00 Concluding Plenary

Speakers:

  • Baroness Anne Longfield CBE and Haroon Chowdry, Centre for Young Lives
  • Professor Colette Fagan, Vice-President for Research, University of Manchester


16:00 Event Ends

16:00 – 17:30 Networking Session

Refreshments are available on the ground floor



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