The Salon is an open event for anyone who is interested in a lively discussion. Whether you are a parent, professional, interested in the future of our planet, or even a young person yourself. This promises to be one of our liveliest debates yet, so please come along and hear what the speakers have to say, and join in with your own thoughts.
Tickets £5.00 from The Media Centre reception or by calling 0870 990 5000
The Media Centre,
The Huddersfield Salon is organised by A Fine Bunch of people: an informal grouping of local cultural leaders including senior members of most of the major Kirklees Arts Organisations.
Speakers details:
Dr Hazel Wigmore
Huddersfield-born Hazel Wigmore founded the National Children’s Centre at Brian Jackson House in the town. She pioneered professional standards, training and registration for childminding, and created the Crying Baby Hotline and the Playtrain Nursery at Huddersfield Station. Whilst chairing the National Under-fives Group, she assisted in drafting The Children Act and also chaired the BBC Children in Need Awards panel in the North East and the BBC National Committee on Community Action.
Serving on the Parliamentary All Party Group for Under Fives led to Dr Wigmore succeeding Lady Plowden in chairing the national association for voluntary organisations working with under fives. This in turn gave her the opportunity to work with the Under Secretary of State’s Office in framing the pre-school sections of The Children Act.
Her young people’s work has included pioneering fatherhood classes in youth detention centres and prisons, the SUPERDADS project giving young fathers supervised access to their children and the COOL project for school refusers.
Dr Helene Guldberg
Dr Helene Guldberg is co-founder and Managing Editor of spiked-online, the first custom-built online current affairs publication in the
After working as a primary school teacher for a few years, Guldberg obtained a PhD in developmental psychology from the
She is now working on a book for Vision Paperbacks on children’s lives - exploring how they have changed, and the impact on children’s development.