Enhancing Children's Rights Connecting Research, Policy and Practice

by Smith, Anne B

• ISBN13: 9781137386090
• ISBN10: 1137386096
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781137386106
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-03-18
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

Achieving social justice for children motivates researchers to explore issues that make a difference to children's lives. Advocates for children rely on research to help argue for policy changes, and policy-makers and practitioners look to research to guide their work. This book examines the relationship between rights, research, policy and practice, and how the links between them, can promote children's rights. Connections between the moral imperative of children's rights, and research, can lead to better policies, in the right political context. This international book outlines the relevance of theory and research to diverse areas of children's policy - including early childhood education, health, law, recreation, child protection and poverty – and shows the importance of smooth pathways and partnerships between researchers, child advocates, practitioners, and policy-makers. Scholars and advocates from Australia, Chile, China, England, Ireland, Kosovo, India, Lithuania, New Zealand, Norway, Scotland and the United States contributed chapters to the book.

Author Biography

Anne Smith is Emeritus Professor at the University of Otago, New Zealand. She has previously published Understanding Children and Childhood (2013), and received the Marion Langer Award from the American Orthopsychiatric Association in 2009 for her research and advocacy.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Rights, Research and Policy; Anne Smith
PART I: THE BODY
2. Reforms to Healthcare Systems and Policies: Influences from Children's Rights; Priscilla Alderson
3. Changing the Law on Physical Punishment in New Zealand; Anne Smith
4. The Child's Right to Play: Laying the Building Blocks for Optimal Health & Well-Being; Rita Shackel
PART II: EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
5. Early Childhood Services in England: Policy, Research and Practice; Gillian Pugh
6: Early Childhood Education in New Zealand: Progress and Challenges in Achieving Children's Rights; Anne Smith
7: Children's Rights and Early Years Provision in India; Vinnarasan Aruldoss and John Davis
PART III: CHILD PROTECTION
8. Child Protection: Policies for Vulnerable Children in New Zealand; Anne Smith
9. Children In Care: Global Perspectives On The Challenges Of Securing Their Wellbeing And Rights; Robbie Gilligan
10. Children and Young People Leaving Care; Judy Cashmore and Philip Mendes
11. Family and Care Policies for Children in the Former Soviet Union: What is Changing in Russia and Lithuania?; Ekaterina Yazykova and Liepa Boberine
12. Child Rights and Wellbeing in Latin America: A Role for Conditional Cash Transfers; Jill McLeigh and Francisco Pilotti,
PART IV: PARTICIPATION, POLITICS AND THE LAW
13. Taking Account of Children: How far Have We Come in England?; Carolyne Willow
14. Young People as Leaders in (and Sometimes Victims of) Political and Cultural Change; Gary Melton and Weijun Wang
15. Children's Rights and Wellbeing: Tensions within the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014; Kay Tisdall and John Davis
16. 'Vi ere en nasjon vi med?' 'We are a nation, we' Children's rights in Norway: Research, Policies and Practices; Anne Trine Kjørholt
17. Children's Views and Participation in Family Dispute Resolution in New Zealand; Nicola Taylor and Megan Gollop
18. Conclusion: Challenges for Research on Children's Rights; Anne Smith