LSE Workshop: Today’s Children; Tomorrow’s Families

Date:

30th March 2011

Venue:

Trafford Hall near Chester

Description:

LSE Housing and Communities, and the National Communities Resource Centre, invite you to a timely workshop on how families living in low-income areas can overcome obstacle and expand children’s opportunities. 

How do disadvantaged families overcome educational handicaps and uncover opportunities for their children to progress?  Children’s and young people’s experiences of school, training and work reveal what helps and where the gaps are.

The workshop will include sessions on:

• schools and education;
• physical and mental wellbeing;
  children’s services and supports, particularly early years and families;
• youth, crime and anti-social behaviour linked to play, open space and leisure;
• work, training opportunities and poverty;
• social capital and community volunteering;
• how cutbacks will affect disadvantaged communities;
• what can be done to close the gaps in society that are widening.

Further Information:

http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/LSEhousing/events/default.asp