Tackling London’s child poverty challenge?
This one day conference, on 10 October 2007 at London Zoo, examined a broad range of issues concerned with child poverty in the capital, and included international perspectives from eminent US speakers.
The Greater London Authority, London Councils and the London Development Agency jointly sponsored the conference. Delegates included policy makers, academics, representatives from regional and local government, grassroots community organisations, charities, housing organisations, the health sector and London’s business community.
The speakers included:
- Ken Livingstone, The Mayor of London
- Carey Oppenheim, Chair, London Child Poverty Commission
- Cllr James Kempton, Leader, London Borough of Islington and Executive Member for Children and Young People, London Councils.
- Professor John Hills, Director, Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion London School of Economics
- Angela Glover Blackwell, Chief Executive of Policy-Link, United States of America
- Rt Hon. Peter Hain, Secretary of State, Department for Work and Pensions
The Mayor's third State of London's Children Report was also launched at the conference.
Presentations from the day can be downloaded and viewed.
Conference report
Plenary presentations
- Plenary 01 Carey Oppenheim PDF
- Plenary 02 Joshua Rey PDF
- Plenary 03 John Hills PDF
- Plenary 04 Mike Emmerich PDF
Workshop presentations
- Workshop 01 Nick Stanton PDF
- Workshop 01 Simon Deakin PDF
- Workshop 02 Hilary Kirkham PDF
- Workshop 02 Julie Langridge John PDF
- Workshop 03 Sarah Blackburn & Seth Opuni PDF
- Workshop 04 Jill Rutter PDF
- Workshop 04 Lucinda Platt PDF
- Workshop 05 Di McNeish & Sara Scott PDF