A successful upbringing for children and adolescents as a subject of integrated preventive local government social policy

In recent years, there has been a growing awareness of the issue of family poverty. In addition to material deprivation, poverty carries the risk of general social deprivation, which in turn reduces the chances of a successful upbringing and social participation of the children concerned. This can manifest itself in difficulties for parents in raising their children as well as problems at school. The question was examined as to whether and within what constitutional limits the hitherto voluntary approach to the development of integrated preventive local government services could be made mandatory. The project took into account all actors in the prevention chain and focused not only on constitutional law but also on federal law.

(Publications are in German.)