This annual conference will convene and expand the international community of practice with participants from around the globe to bring radical and lasting change to the way child welfare systems work. It unites practitioners, policy and law makers, academics, children and young people, families and communities in an agenda for real change.

Monday, October 6–Thursday, October 9, 2025

Bringing the best and most innovative ideas about changing practice, relationships, systems and institutions, it seeks to motivate, educate and inspire changemakers around the world. Sharing ideas, information, creating lively inclusive debate and making new international connections is at the heart of this event.

The five main goals of this annual conference are as follows:

• To build and support a global movement of changemakers striving to bring radical and lasting transformation to child welfare practice, policy, systems and research.
• To convene, motivate and inspire child welfare changemakers from around the world invested in solutions that create change.
• Illuminate the best and most innovative ideas about changing practice, relationships, systems and institutions.
• To provide a safe, brave and supportive place for the voices of children, families and communities most impacted by child welfare and adjacent systems and by child maltreatment, foster care and economic deprivation, to be heard and have influence on future policy, service and practice design.
• To share evidence-based research, practice knowledge, and lived experiences about what can transform child welfare and community services for families and communities.

Individual, Student and Group Registration Pricing: $63.75–$200
Early Bird 10% discount through August 8
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