Since the inclusion of a ‘mixed race option’ in the UK census, more has come to be known about this population. While ‘mixed’ is a broad definition, the numbers who identify with the term appear to be increasing. Despite this, services have generally been slow to adopt a realistic view of mixed race people and families.

Plenary sessions will include:

• Crossing the colour and faith line: challenging assumptions about families from mixed racial, ethnic and faith backgrounds (Dr Chamion Caballero, London South Bank University, and co-author of the forthcoming Parenting ‘Mixed’ Children: Negotiating Difference and Belonging (funded by Joseph Rowntree Foundation)

• Improving the educational environment for mixed race children (Professor Leon Tikly, University of Bristol)

• The Multiple Heritage Project: raising the profile of mixed race issues through focussed services (Bradley Lincoln, founder of the Multiple Heritage Project, Manchester)

The practical focus of this conference will be strengthened by smaller study groups, facilitated by practitioners who actually work with mixed race people.

These are planned to include:

• Creating a strong sense of self in mixed race young people
• Mixed race young people: over-represented in the criminal justice system
• Making mixed race children visible in the education system
• Social services and mixed race families
• Complex family systems: working with mixed race service users

Working with and providing services to mixed race families - Annabel Goodyer, Principal Lecturer in Social Work, London South Bank University

The Study Group will explore issues of service user experience and service delivery, looking in particular at the rigid categorisation of ethnicity which may seem inappropriate for people of mixed race, including the areas of fostering and adoption. Before becoming a social work academic, Annabel Goodyer worked extensively in children and family social work, both as a social worker and as a children’s guardian. She is author of Direct work with mixed-race children (in Okitikpi T. 2004, Working with Mixed-Race Children) and Actually I’m Brown: the perspective of children of mixed parentage on ascribed categories of identity (with Okitikpi T.)

Standard rate - £190 + VAT
Reduced rate - £150 + VAT (limited number of places available to small registered charities with 10 or fewer employees)

Discounts are available for team bookings of three or more.

To book via telephone please call Central Conference Consultants on 0115 916 3104 or

Online Booking available here...

To book via email: conferences@ccclimited.org.uk