A Charter for Children’s Rights Under the Family Law
Children are still treated as pawns or possessions.
UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
Achieving Rights for Children in the UK
A brief analysis of the report by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
The Virtues and Limits of Rights
What A Christmas Carol offers that the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child does not
The Impact of Quality4Children on Children’s Rights
And Children’s Rights as the basic principle for developing the Quality4Children standards
Informing Parliament : Immigration and Refugees
The All Party Parliamentary Group for Children has held a number of meetings over the summer. I reported on six meetings last month; here are accounts of the final two meetings. Ed Balls MP (Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families) returned to provide an update on the Children’s Plan and the new department’s … Read more
Holding and Hugging
A Danish research project to consider the effectiveness and morality of restraint
Rights which Remove Responsibilities
Does defining children’s rights undermine adults’ intuitive sense of responsibility?
UN Convention on the Rights of the Child :The Essential Role of Social Work
IFSW meets the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
Promoting Children’s Well-Being in the Primary Years
Book Review by Sue Kennedy The focus of Promoting Children’s Well-being in the Primary Years (Right from the Start) children and in particular primary years education. The book is a collaborative production “on a grand scale” say the editors, and when you read the notes on the contributors this is not an exaggeration. All the … Read more
The Individual and the Community
“No man is an Island”, said John Donne. It is one of those statements which looks obvious once it is said. Man is a social animal, brought up in families, living in neighbourhoods and wider communities, working in teams of varying sizes, forming partnerships, agreeing complex laws and regulations and codes of conduct about acceptable … Read more