Highlights and press coverage: Creating Positive Futures for Boys and Young Men

On November 19th, the Men and Boys Coalition held our inaugral annual conference ‘Creating Positive Futures for Boys and Young Men’, with a focus on the critical issue of boys’ academic, emotional and relationships education – an area of public policy that has long since been ignored.

The event was an extraordinary success, with gripping speakers in a packed room, engaging with an enthralled audience. Key speakers at the conference at Mary Sumner House in Westminster included:

Robert Halfon MP, Chair of the Education Select Committee and former Minister of State at the Department for Education.
Former head of UCAS and leading advocate for addressing boys’ educational underachievement, Mary Curnock Cook OBE
Writer, campaigner and former Government children’s mental health champion, Natasha Devon MBE

Below are short clips of some of the speakers which give a flavour of the expertise and breadth of content covered by the event.

Extensive press overage of the day are linked to at the end of this post.

A huge thank you to all of our speakers and delegates who made the conference such a success.

Men and Boys Coalition Steering Committee

Sonia Shaljean, founder and Director of Lads Need Dads