The new edition of this well established handbook provides up-to-date information on a topic of increasing importance across a range of disciplines and practices. It covers:* the debate concerning children's rights and developments in rights provision over the last twenty years* the impact of recent British legislation on children's rights in key areas such as education, social and welfare services and criminal justice* the key provisions of the UN Convention and Human Rights Act* recent policy proposals and initiatives in the British setting intended to establish and promote rights for children and young people* the rights claims of particular groups of children, for example children who are carers or children who are disabled* children's claims for particular rights such as the right to space, to sex education and citizenship* the ways in which the voices of children and young people are or might be articulated more clearly in policy debates and other arenas* issues and developments in Europe, Scandinavia and China.The New Handbook of Children's Rights offers a comprehensive and radical appraisal of the field which will be invaluable to students and professionals alike.
Author(s): Bob Franklin
Edition: 2
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 448
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Notes on contributors......Page 12
Children's rights: an introduction......Page 16
Children's rights: an overview......Page 28
Children's rights and media wrongs: changing representations of children and the developing rights agenda......Page 30
Children's rights: the changing legal framework......Page 58
Schooling, education and children's rights......Page 60
The Children Act 1989 and children's rights: a critical reassessment......Page 75
Children's rights and youth justice......Page 96
Children's rights ten years after ratification......Page 112
The Human Rights Act 1998: human rights for children too......Page 134
Children's rights: cases for action......Page 152
Medicalising children's behaviour......Page 154
Young children's health care rights and consent......Page 170
Children's rights to public space: environment and curfews......Page 183
Children's rights to sex and sexuality education......Page 197
Rights and disabled children......Page 211
Children who care: rights and wrongs in debate and policy on young carers......Page 223
Human rights and refugee children in the UK......Page 238
Children's rights: listening to children and young people's voices......Page 252
Minor rights and major concerns: the views of young people in care......Page 254
Children's Express: a voice for young people in an adult world......Page 269
Involving young people in research......Page 283
Children's Rights Commissioners for the UK......Page 300
Citizenship education: who pays the piper?......Page 313
Making it happen young children's rights in action: the work of Save the Children's Centre for Young Children's Rights......Page 326
Children's rights: comparative perspectives......Page 342
Childhood and children's rights in China......Page 344
The state of children's rights in Australia......Page 360
A Commissioner for Children's Rights in the Flemish community in Belgium......Page 377
Global progress towards giving up the habit of hitting children......Page 389
Outside childhood: street children's rights......Page 403
The Ombudsman for children: conception and developments......Page 419
Index......Page 435
