Child protection in British Columbia: Moving toward primary prevention

Vaghri, Ziba; Souza, Lauren De

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“…These factors shape children's access to cultural capital and with it, the means by which to participate in ways that the dominant cultural paradigm of the child protection system can hear. For instance, social context influences how children prefer to participate or express their views, the content of their participation efforts, how their views are interpreted using particular knowledge bases, paradigms and worldviews, who has control of that representation, how those interpretations are represented in decisionmaking fora, documented and shared with other professionals, and how all of that informs decision-making about their care (Vaghri & De Souza, 2021).…”

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Recognising the Embedded Child: Children’s Participation, Child Protection Inequities and Cultural Capital in Child Protection

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2022

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Children’s right to participation in child protection decision-making is supported by moral imperatives and international conventions. The fragmented implementation of this right reflects an already-conflicted discursive terrain that attempts to incorporate both children’s agency and their need for protection. This article uses two key theoretical lenses to further examine this terrain: child welfare inequalities and cultural capital. These theories draw attention to how social inequities and cultural capital relating to culture and class affect how participation plays out. An unintended consequence of constructing children within a traditional liberal account of rights, within neoliberal and ‘child focussed’ policy paradigms, is the reduction of an acknowledgment of the culturally contested nature of an individualistic construction of children, excising children from their social backgrounds and promoting the notion of a ‘universal child’. With a particular focus on class, culture and professional paradigms, I argue that the ways children’s views are elicited, the content of those views and how they are interpreted, become subject to a set of professional assumptions that tend to take little cognisance of the social backround of children, including norms relating to class, ethinicity and the oppressive structural relations relating to those two factors. This process is shored up with concepts such as attachment theory, the ‘adultification’ of children of colour, the diminishing of Indigenous concepts of children and childhood, and the pre-eminence of the ‘concerted cultivation’ middle class parenting style. The child’s cultural worldview and manner of expressing it may clash with professional cultures that emphasise an ability for verbal expression, independence, and entitlement when negotiating preferences with representatives of powerful social institutions such as child protection systems. Many children may not comply with this expectation due to both cultural and class socialisation processes, and the histories of the oppressive functions of child protection systems. The unspoken power of child protection organisations that must engage in constant translation of children’s cultural capital to ensure participation, may instead better serve children’s participation aims by devolving authority to affected communities. Communities reflecting children’s own, may be better able to offer recognition to children and enable their participation more effectively.

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Recognising the Embedded Child: Children’s Participation, Child Protection Inequities and Cultural Capital in Child Protection

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2022

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“…The subsequent work, undertaken by the GC7 Indicators Group, 2 led to the development of a set of seventeen indicators, each addressing a specific right for young children, following the Structure, Process, and Outcome model later published by the Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights (United Nations OHCHR, 2012). Subsequent pilots in Tanzania (Vaghri et al, 2011), Chile (Vaghri et al, 2013), and British Colombia, Canada (Vaghri, 2018), demonstrated that the indicators could work as a method for national, inter-sectoral self-study to identify policies, programmes, and outcomes in early childhood, and proved valuable as a tool to assess the degree to which the conditions conducive to fulfilling child rights for young children were in place (Vaghri & De Souza, 2021).…”

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Monitoring State Compliance With the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

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This publication is one of the outcomes of over a decade of work, under the auspices of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child, to explore how to monitor and evaluate States Parties’ compliance with the obligations they undertook when they ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (the Convention). A full account of the project work to date has been provided in Vaghri, Krappmann, and Doek’s article ‘From the Indicators of General Comment No. 7 to GlobalChild’ (2019). Grounded in that foundational work, this book relies on that project work to provide a conceptual framing of the Convention, through the identification of the attributes of each right that provides the basis for the development of indicators against which to measure progress.

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Recognising the embedded child in child protection: Children’s participation, inequalities and cultural capital

Keddell

2023

Children and Youth Services Review

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Child protection in British Columbia: Moving toward primary prevention

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Recognising the Embedded Child: Children’s Participation, Child Protection Inequities and Cultural Capital in Child Protection

Recognising the Embedded Child: Children’s Participation, Child Protection Inequities and Cultural Capital in Child Protection

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Recognising the embedded child in child protection: Children’s participation, inequalities and cultural capital

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