Keynote presentations
- Keynote 1: Poverty and Restorative Practice: Putting the needs of children, young people and families at the centre of anti-poverty work in Leeds.
Gill Main, Associate Professor in Childhood Studies in the School of Education, University of Leeds. - Keynote 2: Poverty, child abuse and neglect: Time for a new story.
Brid Featherstone, Professor of Social Work at the University of Huddersfield. - Keynote 3: Child-friendly Leeds.
Andy Lloyd, Head of Children’s Workforce Development in Leeds Children’s Services & Sue Rumbold, Chief Officer in Leeds Children’s Services - Keynote 4: High five Hoogeveen.
Johanna Sellis, Senior Policy Advisor Strategy, Policy and Projects Municipality of Hoogeveen & Gert Vos, Alderman Municipality of Hoogeveen. - Keynote 5: Public Space Play Masterplan 2020-2030 in Barcelona City: the importance of a context-specific deployment in the poorer areas.
Laia Pineda, Director of the Childhood and Adolescence Institute of Barcelona.
Keynote speakers bio’s and abstracts:
Andy Lloyd, Head of Children’s Workforce Development in Leeds Children’s Services
Two cities – one ambition This session will describe the journey of two municipalities who have both been on a journey of becoming child-friendly. Leeds, a large city in the north of the UK and Hoogeveen, a smaller town in the Netherlands have both committed to become child-friendly. For the past four years, we have…
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Brid Featherstone, Professor of Social Work at the University of Huddersfield
This presentation will explore the need for a new story about the relationship between poverty, child abuse and neglect. Using the findings from a large scale study in the UK, it will highlight the problems with the current story which locates the harms children experience within an individualised frame that focuses on the actions and…
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Gert Vos, Alderman Municipality of Hoogeveen
This session will describe the journey of two municipalities who have both been on a journey of becoming child-friendly. Leeds, a large city in the north of the UK and Hoogeveen, a smaller town in the Netherlands have both committed to become child-friendly. For the past four years, we have been working closely together to…
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Gill Main, Associate Professor in Childhood Studies in the School of Education, University of Leeds
Child poverty has devastating impacts for children, families, communities, and society as a whole. We hear a great deal about poverty in the media and from politicians – usually with emphasis on what families in poverty are getting wrong, and how policy can be used to effect changes in their behaviours, motivations, and ambitions. We hear much less…
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Johanna Sellis, Senior Policy Advisor Strategy, Policy and Projects Municipality of Hoogeveen
Two cities – one ambition This session will describe the journey of two municipalities who have both been on a journey of becoming child-friendly. Leeds, a large city in the north of the UK and Hoogeveen, a smaller town in the Netherlands have both committed to become child-friendly. For the past four years, we have…
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Laia Pineda, Director of the Childhood and Adolescence Institute of Barcelona
Play and leisure are vital childhood activities, that are essential for the integral development of the child, as it is pointed in the 31st article of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). Both -play and leisure- are as fundamental as any other right in the UNCRC. Assuming that and as…
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Sue Rumbold, Chief Officer in Leeds Children’s Services
This session will describe the journey of two municipalities who have both been on a journey of becoming child-friendly. Leeds, a large city in the north of the UK and Hoogeveen, a smaller town in the Netherlands have both committed to become child-friendly. For the past four years, we have been working closely together to…
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