Educational Poverty and Educating Communities: Strategies of Welfare Interventions in Italy

The contemporary perspective about educational poverty’s studies is moving towards the recognition of its multidimensional nature; therefore, this work proposes to clue some of these topics, specifically related to social, political and institutional agency that links together family, school, social services and the territory or community, in an attempt to show and explain the emergence and increasingly visible affirmation of a collective strategy of social intervention capable of promoting innovative actions to combat child educational poverty, through the integrated co-design and implementation of public-private welfare services, to optimize the quality of education, to reduce school dropout and abandonment, to support families and institutions involved in the territorial process, to increase the opportunities of the cultural and educational offer of young people.