The impact of homelessness and poor housing conditions on children
Third Policy Workshop
Budapest 26-27 February 2009
The network held its third policy workshop in Budapest. Representatives from London, Amsterdam, Helsinki, Milan, Budapest, Solna, Uppsala, Sollentuna and Västerĺs attended.
Tausz Katalin, the Chair of the Social politics and Social Work Department at Hungary’s Eötvös Loránd University, began the day with an overview of how child poverty is recognised, defined and tackled on a national level. Following this, Darvas Agnes discussed a Child Poverty programme run by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Lena Szilvasi gave a presentation on the Sure Start project, of which she is Project Manager for Hungary.
The second half of the conference focused on the work of the European Cities Against Child Poverty partners. There were presentations from London and Milan on the situation in each city and how projects are working on the ground to overcome the issues surrounding overcrowding and poor housing conditions.
At the policy workshop, delegates were then given the opportunity to discuss the case studies with reference to their own experiences in their cities, as practitioners and policy makers. There were presentations of four successful projects. The first two from Uppsala and Helsinki worked to prevent homelessness and evictions among families; the remaining two examples from Budapest and Amsterdam both work to improve housing conditions for families.
For more information on the case studies presented and the outcomes of the event, please read our April policy update.
