Children's Rights and Child Death Reviews: A Comparison of Processes in Australia and the UK

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Frederick
Keyword(s):  
Child Death ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
The Uk

scholarly journals Recognising and responding to the maltreatment of disabled children: A children’s rights approach

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 61-77
Author(s):  
J Hernon ◽  
M Brandon ◽  
J Cossar ◽  
T Shakespeare
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Disabled Children ◽  
The Uk ◽  
To Receive

Research has established that disabled young people are at greater risk of experiencing all forms of maltreatment, especially neglect (Jones et al, 2012). Despite increasing awareness of their heightened vulnerability, the maltreatment of disabled children remains under-recognised and is under-reported. Disabled children have the same rights as all children to be protected from maltreatment; to have their concerns listened to; to participate fully in decisions made about them; and to receive help to recover from maltreatment. In this paper Cossar et al’s (2013) framework for understanding the processes of recognition, telling and receiving help following maltreatment from the child’s perspective, is applied to disabled children. The particular barriers that disabled children and those working with them face in recognising and responding to maltreatment are analysed by reviewing what is known about child protection practice with disabled children, mainly in the UK. Suggestions are made about how practice with disabled children could be improved.

scholarly journals Symbiotic Harms of Imprisonment and the Effect on Children’s Right to Family Life

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 305-325
Author(s):  
Shona Minson ◽  
Catherine Flynn
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Interview Data ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Alternate Forms ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Parents And Caregivers

Abstract Measures taken by governments to address covid-19 in prisons, have impacted significantly on the lives and rights of children. There has been consequential interference with children’s rights to family life and to contact with a parent from whom they have been separated. Since the onset of the pandemic, prisoners in many jurisdictions have lived under restricted regimes with almost universal bans on family visits. Children have not had face-to-face contact with their imprisoned parents, and alternate forms of contact have not always been available to them. Using survey and interview data collected during lockdowns in the UK and Australia, we consider the implications of the interference with the rights of children with an imprisoned parent. Focusing on their relationships, health and wellbeing and using the concept of symbiotic harms, we note how children’s experiences of the cessation of contact interacted with parents’ and caregivers’ experiences, amplifying the harms to children.

Incorporating children’s rights: the divergence in law and policy

Legal Studies ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Williams
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
European Convention ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
Legislative Framework ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact

The paper examines conceptual barriers to incorporation of children’s rights – understood in the context of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms 1950, the Human Rights Act 1998 and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989 – in the law of England and Wales. It identifies traditions in law and policy on children and young people, and competing political imperatives which militate against effective implementation of children’s rights to protection and provision, but suggests that participative rights pose fewer problems. It argues that the scope for further judicial development is limited in the absence of substantial changes in the legislative framework. It then examines rights-based reasoning in administrative practice and considers the impact here of ideological differences between the UK Government and the Welsh Assembly Government. It considers the scope for differential implementation within the evolving devolution settlement, and the potential impact of such difference on child law and practice in the ‘single jurisdiction’ of England and Wales. It concludes by arguing for greater attention to executive as well as legislative and judicial functions, and to extra-judicial mechanisms, for promoting rights-based decision making.

UN Convention: Setting New Targets

1992 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 34-37
Author(s):  
Gerison Lansdown
Keyword(s):  
Turning Point ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
New Targets ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Voluntary Organisations

Until comparatively recently children in the UK were viewed as the property of their parents. However, the government's ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in December 1991 represents a turning point. Gerison Lansdown urges statutory and voluntary organisations to ‘adopt’ the Convention and examine their policies and practice to ensure that children's rights are properly addressed.

Children’s Status, Children’s Rights and ‘dealing with’ Children

2012 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Cassidy
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Report Card ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
The Uk

Several models of child exist, each maintaining child as something other to adult. Stables asserts: “…how we think about [children] does affect how we deal with them” (2008: 1). Seeing children as becomings is a problem. Here, I would like to consider the recommendations from the most recent United Nations’ report card on the implementation of the UNCRC in the UK and place these against the question of how society ‘deals with’ children and whether a report that is more positive than ‘must do better’ is likely to take us beyond seeing the child as different, as other, as becoming.

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