Overview
- Takes a human rights-based approach in relation to children’s rights and child welfare policy and professionalism
- Covers key areas such as foster care, residential care, generic rights-based practice, and emergency placements
- Combines a critical academic perspective with research and insights for policy and professional practice
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About this book
This open access book critically explores what child protection policy and professional practice would mean if practice was grounded in human rights standards. This book inspires a new direction in child protection research – one that critically assesses child protection policy and professional practice with regard to human rights in general, and the rights of the child in particular. Each chapter author seeks to approach the rights of the child from their own academic field of interest and through a comparative lens, making the research relevant across nation-state practices.
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Asgeir Falch-Eriksen is Associate Professor focussing on child protection at Norwegian Social Research, Oslo University College. He has worked in central government in Norway with policy-implementation, regulation and development with regard to professionalism in child protection, organizational design, and education. He has also written a book on trust in child protection.Elisabeth Backe-Hansen worked at Norwegian Social Research, Oslo University College, as a full-time researcher within the field of child protection and research on children and young people from 1988-2016. She has a background in psychology, focussed on decision-making in child welfare, in particular concerning out-of-home placement of small children. She worked as a practitioner within child protection for many years before becoming a full-time researcher.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Human Rights in Child Protection
Book Subtitle: Implications for Professional Practice and Policy
Editors: Asgeir Falch-Eriksen, Elisabeth Backe-Hansen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94800-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-94799-0Published: 14 September 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06917-9Published: 01 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-94800-3Published: 30 August 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 258
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations
Topics: Human Rights and Crime , Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, Children, Youth and Family Policy, Education Policy, Common Family Law, Social Work and Community Development