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Sue-Ellen Thomas, Jim Smith, Jane Brown and all of our guests, welcome.

My name is April Molloy, and it's my privilege and pleasure on behalf of Parents United to welcome you
here today.

We are delighted to have you with is to participate and share in our 5th annual Children's Day. Thank
you for coming. That many of you have traveled long distances to be here serves as a reminder to us all
just how important our work is.

Parents United is committed to actively raising the quality of life for every child. We want all children,
regardless of race, creed or circumstance to achieve their full potential. Our task is to make it possible.
Our mission is to provide practical, step by step assistance.

This year our theme is literacy. We've named the day 'Readers by Right'.

Thanks to the 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights we are aware of 'rights' in
many spheres, including education. That agreement declared in Article 26 education should be
compulsory and free for children.

That goal, is as pertinent today as it was then. It's a goal I know we all share - the full development of
every child. As a body Parents United recognizes good reading skills established in childhood as the
foundation of fulfilling, and ongoing education.

We are honored to have Sue-Ellen Thomas, Jim Smith and Jane Brown with us today. All three are
esteemed specialists in teaching young children to read.

Sue-Ellen has worked for many years with educational authorities to establish programs that put in
place the necessary pre-reading skills. Her efforts need no introduction. The results speak for
themselves.

Jim and Jane bring their passion and knowledge of how to reach those in our communities who are
frequently overlooked or bypassed. Their work among English-as-a-second-language families has
bridged gaps that were deep dark chasms.

Prepare yourself to be challenged, excited and inspired.

And before I handover to Lesley Watts, our coordinator for 'Readers by Right', who will outline the day's
events, I want to say once more on behalf of the Parents United organizing committee, welcome. It's
wonderful to see so many of you here."
Good morning, you are all very welcome to this seminar on school placement.

Thank you for making the time, especially towards the end of a very busy

school year, to come together and share your experience of school placement,

and also to highlight relevant issues for us all to consider as we continue the

process of bedding down these guidelines. I think that the attendance here

today – over 100 people – is ample testimony to your interest in this issue.

So why have we come here today? To listen to the experience of others in

school placement, to capture the learning from that experience, and to chart

the next steps in the steady but incremental roll-out of these Guidelines.

But for many of you, this may be your first seminar on school placement. It

may even be the first you have seen or heard of the Guidelines. And even if it is

not, you may well be asking – why are we going here at all? Another initiative

on top of a pressurised school system. We’ve been doing it for years, and

nobody has complained. Why all the fuss?

This is quite similar to the question that is asked of the Teaching Council as a

professional standards body. We are well aware that there are some who

question the need for another body to tell teachers what they have known in

their hearts for years – that they are professionals. Why pay this fee, why all

this change and upheaval to simply reiterate what we know to be true? A little

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over 30 years ago, 2 years’ study was sufficient to become a primary teacher. If

it was good enough then, why is it not good enough now?

I think that there is an overarching reason of professional responsibility for

this. Within that, there are two “trilogies” which underpin why we are here
today – learning, language, understanding; and expectation, collaboration and

trust. And both sets of concepts or values apply very directly to school
Today’s workshop is attended by 4 speakers representing both leading Drug Regulatory Agencies and
Industries, those are Health Canada, Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Agency (JAPAN), and Novartis,
and officers from Drug Regulatory Authorities of 10 different economies and country including Brunei,
Chile, Indonesia, Malaysia, Peru, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Chinese Taipei, and Thailand.
Therefore, this workshop will provide us not only essential knowledge but also a great opportunity to
share experiences both technical and regulatory issues

I would like to take this opportunity to express my sincere thanks to the organizers and in particular our
honorable speakers. All of them have been working with us since the beginning of the planning stage
and they are still here today for all of us, even though they are both very busy with their responsibilities
at their agencies. We truly appreciate your dedication. Again, this training program could not have
been made possible without APEC, ICH, ASEAN, Health Canada, PMDA, and Novartis , who foresee the
importance of Clinical Trial Assessment. I hope that everyone would take the results of this program to
develop our regulatory system to ensure the quality and safety of clinical trials and investigational
products.

Finally, this is an opportune time for me to declare the official opening of the “Advanced Workshop:
Review of Drug Development in Clinical Trials” and I wish all 5 fruitful days of interesting and beneficial
program and also that you have a pleasant stay in Bangkok.

I warmly welcome you again.

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