Parallel Session 4: Child poverty and children’s agency
Facilitator: Sven De Visscher, lecturer in social work at University College Ghent in Belgium
- Walking and staying with lively streets in early childhood: knowing ways out of impoverished environments with families and practitioners – Penny Lawrence
- Addressing child poverty in local communities in Leeds – Amelia Gunn
- Support workers’ perspective of child poverty in cities across the UK: What support can increase chances for these children? – Amelia Smith
Parallel Session 4 speaker bio and abstract
Amelia Smith, Impact and Evaluation Manager at Buttle UK
As an organisation, we provide the resources that allow children and young people in poverty to have the same access as their peers, working with several hundred referral organisations across cities in the UK (including local authority social workers, charity support workers, NHS staff and school staff). We recently conducted a study of over 1200…
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Amelia Gunn, the Children & Families directorate, Leeds City Council
Addressing child poverty in local communities in Leeds. Session outline: In Leeds, there is a desire to change the way that individuals and organisations work together to improve the lives of children who live in poverty. A large part of this was changing the ways that organisations both work together, and work with children and…
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Penny Lawrence, Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Studies at the University of Roehampton, London
How do children in early childhood experience walking and staying for any time on the streets of their city? An impoverished environment does not come from low-income alone but from a passivity, hardness or even forbidding quality. How can it invite and engage? Children and adults walking and staying out to spend time contribute to…
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