This Report to Parliament on the state of implementation of Law 285/1997 for the year 2017 is dedicated to a reflection on the twenty years its implementation.

It analyses the strategic dimension of the law, i.e., the promotion of its beneficiaries' participation, starting from a survey of the main experiences of urban participation, and asks what the ingredients are for participation that is not merely a rhetorical slogan, as well as what the channels for promoting and nurturing it are.

The Report reports on the status of planning in the 15 Riservatarie Cities (Law 285/1997 (Art. 1(2) guarantees a ringfenced share of the funds allocated to policies for children and adolescents to the so-called riservatarie cities, i.e. 15 large metropolitan cities: Bari, Bologna, Brindisi, Cagliari, Catania, Florence, Genoa, Milan, Naples, Palermo, Reggio Calabria, Rome, Taranto, Turin and Venice), in fact city sheets are presented that contain summary data on planning 285 undertaken in each Pilot City.