Human Rights in Child Protection : Implications for Professional Practice and Policy /

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 prac...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Falch-Eriksen, Asgeir (Editor), Backe-Hansen, Elisabeth (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Edition:	1st ed. 2018.
Subjects:	Human rights. Family policy. Education and state. Domestic relations. Community development. Social service. Human Rights. Children, Youth and Family Policy. Education Policy. Family Law. Social Work and Community Development. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1. Child Protection and Human Rights: A Call for Professional Practice and Policy; Asgeir Falch-Eriksen and Elisabeth Backe-Hansen
Chapter 2. Children´s right to protection under the CRC; Kirsten Sandberg
Chapter 3. Rights and professional practice. How to understand their interconnection; Asgeir Falch-Eriksen
Chapter 4. The child's best interest principle across child protection jurisdictions; Marit Skivenes and Line Marie Sørsdal
Chapter 5. Re-designing organisations to facilitate rights-based practice in child protection; Eileen Munro and Andrew Turnell
Chapter 6. Experts by Experience Infusing Professional Practices in Child Protection; Tarja Pösö
Chapter 7. The Rights of Children Placed in Out-of-home Care; Anne-Dorthe Hestbæk
Chapter 8. Emergency Placements - human rights limits and lessons; Elisabeth Gording-Stang
Chapter 9. Rights-based practice and marginalised children in child protection work; Bente Kojan and Graham Clifford
Chapter 10. In-home services: A rights-based professional practice meets children's and families' needs; Øivin Christiansen and Ragnhild Hollekim
Chapter 11. Embodied care practices and the realisation of the best interests of the child in residential institutions for young children; Cecilie Baasberg Neumann
Chapter 12. Formal participation rights meeting everyday participation in foster care - a challenge?; Elisabeth Backe-Hansen
Conclusion. Towards rights-based child protection work; Elisabeth Backe-Hansen and Asgeir Falch-Eriksen.