Children's Rights in the Balance: The Participation Protection Debate - Softcover

Marshall, Kathleen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0114958521 ISBN 13: 9780114958527

Publisher: Stationery Office Books, 1997

Synopsis

The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child gave children of all ages the right to be involved in decisions that affect them. This text aims to give an overview of that decision. Topics include: a look behind the UN statements to find out what was actually intended by giving children a right to be involved; examination of attempts by different countries to accommodate this right of children, especially within the legal processes; a crique of the Council of Europe's attempt to help its member states to do this through the pasing of a European Convention on the Exercise of Children's Rights; the attitudes to children's involvement by a number of professionals working with children, and a small group of young people; and a framework for decision-making which acknowledges the right of children to be involved in a way which is consistent with their welfare.

About this edition

• Publisher: Stationery Office Books
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0114958521
• ISBN 13: 9780114958527
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 130