The new handbook of children's rights : comparative policy and practice /
Children's rights
edited by Bob Franklin.
- Second edition.
- xiv, 433 pages ; 24 cm
Revised edition of: The handbook of children's rights. 1995.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Children's rights: an introduction / Children's rights: an overview. Children's rights and media wrongs: changing representations of children and the developing rights agenda / Children's rights: the changing legal framework. Schooling, education and children's rights / The Children Act 1989 and children's rights: a critical reassessment / Children's rights and youth justice / Children's rights ten years after ratification / The Human Rights Act 1998: human rights for children too / Children's rights: cases for action. Medicalising children's behaviour / Young children's health care rights and consent / Children's rights to public space: environment and curfews / Children's rights to sex and sexuality education / Rights and disabled children / Children who care: rights and wrongs in debate and policy on young carers / Human rights and refugee children in the UK / Children's rights: listening to children and young people's voices. Minor rights and major concerns: the views of young people in care / Children's Express: a voice for young people in an adult world / Involving young people in research / Children's Rights Commissioners for the UK / Citizenship education: who pays the piper? / Making it happen - young children's rights in action: the work of Save the Children's Centre for Young Children's Rights / Children's rights: comparative perspectives. Childhood and children's rights in China / The state of children's rights in Australia / A Commissioner for Children's Rights in the Flemish community in Belgium / Global progress towards giving up the habit of hitting children / Outside childhood: street children's rights / The Ombudsman for children: conception and developments / Bob Franklin -- Bob Franklin -- Tony Jeffs. Jeremy Roche. John Muncie. Michael Freeman. Jane Fortin -- Vicki Coppock. Priscilla Alderson. Virginia Morrow. Deena Haydon. Lesley Campbell. Jo Aldridge and Saul Becker. Mano Candappa -- Monica Barry. Stephanie Williams. Perpetua Kirby. Gerison Lansdown. Carole Scott. Tina Hyder -- Andy West. Moira Rayner. Ankie Vandekerckhove. Peter Newell. Judith Ennew. Malfrid Grude Flekkoy. Pt. I. 1. Pt. II. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Pt. III. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. Pt. IV. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. Pt. V. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25.
"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. It also addresses the impact of recent British legislation on children's rights; the key provisions of the UN Convention and Human Rights Act; and 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."--Publisher description.