Parallel Session 6: Children’s Poverty in Eastern and Western Cities
Facilitator: Prof. Carlo Fabian, Senior Researcher & Lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland
- The ‘Cartography’ of Children’s Poverty in Pune’s Budhwar Peth – Ayushi Rawat
- Local Child Poverty Action Reports in Scotland – learning from the first year – Kerry McKenzie and Hanna McCulloch
Parallel Session 6 speakers bio’s and abstracts:
Hanna McCulloch, National Coordinator for Local Child Poverty Action Reports, the Improvement Service
Local Child Poverty Action Reports in Scotland – learning from the first year. The Child Poverty (Scotland) 2017 Act requires local authorities and NHS Boards to jointly produce a local child poverty action report (LCPAR) annually. The first round of reports were published in Summer 2019. A group of national partner organisations is working together…
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Kerry McKenzie, Organizational Lead for Child Poverty in NHS Health Scotland
Local Child Poverty Action Reports in Scotland – learning from the first year. The Child Poverty (Scotland) 2017 Act requires local authorities and NHS Boards to jointly produce a local child poverty action report (LCPAR) annually. The first round of reports were published in Summer 2019. A group of national partner organisations is working together…
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Ayushi Rawat, PhD student, Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi
The meta-narratives of poverty often invisibilize child poverty. Children are commonly viewed as sub-sets of families, rather than individuals in their own rights. Child poverty becomes acute in contexts where children are vulnerable to violence and abuse. This paper is based on the primary data collected by the author during her Masters thesis on the…
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