Parallel Session 5: Addressing child poverty in interdisciplinary ways
Facilitator: Froukje Hajer, Independent consultant youth policy and children’s rights related to ‘Child, play and environment’.
- Addressing child poverty in interdisciplinary ways – Dagmar Kostihová
- KETMET, Brussels largest covered public playground/KETMET fights child poverty in western cities – Eva De Baerdemaeker
- Children’s and Young People’s Place Standard Tools- addressing Social and Spatial Justice in Scotland – Marguerite Hunter Blair and Cherie Morgan
Parallel Session 5 speakers bio’s and abstracts:
Cherie Morgan, head of Strategy and Development at Play Scotland
Cherie Morgan is head of Strategy and Development at Play Scotland, the national organisation for play in Scotland. Her role is to work with local authorities and partners to develop strategy and policy that will improve children’s opportunities for play in their local community. Cherie is the Project Manager coordinating the development of the two…
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Dagmar Kostihová, Social Care Department of the Brno City Municipality
In Brno, there is about 12 to 15 thousand of inhabitants who are in the situation of social exclusion (which is 2 thousand endangered families). In 2015, 250 children were taken from parental care and there were 52 families in material need. Insufficient intensity of direct work with dysfunctional and incomplete families and considerable fragmentation…
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Eva De Baerdemaeker, founder Cultureghem
Cultureghem is a social profit organisation that initiated the KETMET project. It transforms a privately owned, cultural heritage site, Abattoir in Brussels, on a weekly basis into a playground for all. Abattoir organises the biggest markets of Brussels, selling the cheapest food, in the Cureghem neighborhood, also known as an arrival city for newcomers. Every…
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Marguerite Hunter Blair, Chief Executive of Play Scotland
Play Scotland in Partnership with A Place in Childhood are developing two Place Standard Tools, one for Children and one for Young People. By improving the quality of places and identifying the opportunities we have access to can help tackle spatial and social inequalities. The new Tools will be developed by November and we will…
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