30 September - Development toolkit seminar programme, Brighton. Designed to improve governance and enable participation with community-based organisations. Contact: 0161 246 2920. www.gandp.org.uk
30 September - Writing through play: the excitement of authorship, London. Seminar by Helen Bromley, an early years consultant and author. Contact:020 7539 5400. www.early-education.org.uk
1 October - Jeans for Genes Day. "Do it in Denim" to raise funds for sick children. Contact: 0800 980 4800. www.jeansforgenes.com
1-2 October - Fostering a brighter future: laying the foundations for quality care, Belfast. Fostering Network's annual conference which focuses on successful approaches to foster care. Contact: 028 9067 3441. conference@fostering.net
1-3 October - Early years and primary teaching exhibition, London. Contact: 01923 690646. www.teachingexhibitions.co.uk
4-8 October - National Walk to School Week. Aims to encourage parents and pupils throughout the UK to walk to school. Contact: www.livingstreets.org.uk
4-10 October - National Children's Book Week. Celebrating the wonderful world of children's books. Contact: 020 8516 2981. deborah@booktrust.org.uk
27 October - Children's centres at the heart of every community - delivering the vision, London. Children Now conference on bringing together services in local children's centres. The keynote speaker is health minister Stephen Ladyman. Contact: 020 8267 4011. www.childrenscentresconference.com
TRAINING
28 September - Understanding bereavement by suicide, Buckinghamshire. A workshop to develop skills regarding the effects of suicide on children and families. Contact: 01494 446 648. www.childbereavement.org.uk
29 September - How to deal with bullying, Harrogate. Workshop on the causes and effects of bullying. Contact: 01323 811 440. www.mindfields.org.uk
29 September - Drugs and the law, London. This course looks at issues such as safely disposing of drugs if you find them, working in street and outreach sessions, storage and also looks at the civil law implications of working with drug users. Contact: 020 7378 5497. www.mainliners.org.uk
30 September - Risk and relationships, Manchester. A workshop looking at young people and sexual exploitation through prostitution or through internet or mobile phone technology. Contact: 01273 771 249. www.tsa.uk.com
30 September - Composing the adult, Harrogate. Workshop on how to work creatively with troubled and troublesome adolescents. Contact: 01323 811 486. www.mindfields.org.uk
1 October - Challenging exclusion - setting up multi-family groups within schools, Edinburgh. Workshop on an effective method for improving child/young person's behaviour when there is a risk of school exclusion. Contact: 0131 220 8235. info@insyt.org.
