Parallel Session 3: Child poverty: Lessons from two cities Dortmund and Madrid
Facilitator: Froukje Hajer, Independent consultant youth policy and children’s rights related to ‘Child, play and environment’.
- Dortmund’s Social City Action Plan – Martin Ruhrmann and Jochen Schneider
- Poverty in Madrid: An Analysis From Children, Youth and Families Perspective. Innovative Ideas to Solve It in the City. – Ana Isabel Garrido Martinez
Parallel Session 3 abstracts:
Jochen Schneider, Social Scientist Department of Work, Health, Social Affairs and Sports and Recreation of the city of Dortmund
Dortmund’s Social City Action Plan Dortmund is a major city with over 600.000 inhabitants. As it has been shaped by structural change, child poverty is one of its central social challenges. Dortmund is a spatially socially divided city. Almost every third child under the age of 15 is dependent on state support. In some districts…
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Ana Isabel Garrido Martinez
Poverty in Madrid: An Analysis From Children, Youth and Families Perspective. Innovative Ideas to Solve It in the City. This presentation aims to provide a detailed overview of the current situation of poverty for children, youth and their families in Madrid. First of all, it will be examined from a governmental/ institutional approach, and how…
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Martin Ruhrmann, Youth Welfare Office of the City of Dortmund - Office for Child and Youth Interests
Dortmund’s Social City Action Plan Dortmund is a major city with over 600.000 inhabitants. As it has been shaped by structural change, child poverty is one of its central social challenges. Dortmund is a spatially socially divided city. Almost every third child under the age of 15 is dependent on state support. In some districts…
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