A forum of social affairs since 1880 The German Association for Public and Private Welfare (Deutscher Verein für öffentliche und private Fürsorge e.V.) is the joint forum of municipalities and non-statutory social welfare organisations and their social services in Germany, private commercial enterprises, the Länder (federal states) and academia in all fields of social work, social policy and social law. […]
Research into children, young people and familiesat the interface between science, politics and professional practice The German Youth Institute (DJI) is one of the biggest social science research institutes in Europe. For more than 50 years it has conducted research into the life situations of children, young people and families, advising national government, the German federal states and local authorities […]
Just as on national level, in many federal states the respective state levels of the familiy organisations have formed their own AGF. Nevertheless, the work structure and composition differ from each other, just as the names of the association. Alternatively, sometimes additionally, in some federal states there are sturctures like “family councils” or “family boards” in which several organisations (not […]
On 25 March 1954, exactly 60 years ago the AGF was founded. Since then a lot has happened in family politics and of course also within the AGF. Therefore the author Vera Urban (except Part 6) looked back with a series of articles looking at the work of the AGF over the past 60 years as well as looking on […]
