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"At last our society is beginning a proper debate about what is happening to our ideas of childhood, our attitudes, expectations and policies in regard to our children and young people.

This important conference recognises the often disorienting winds of change that have swept across this landscape in recent decades, and also the need for a compassionate and intelligent discussion of what a mature society does to ensure that its children grow into imaginative, sensitive, critical and confident adults.

This of course means asking how we nurture imaginative, sensitive, critical and confident children; and the expertise represented in this gathering is well-equipped to answer such a question. I wish every blessing and success to this event."