Children’s Rights in Norway

Langford, Malcolm; Skivenes, Marit; Søvig, Karl Harald

doi:10.18261/9788215031415-2019

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“…In Norway, the CWS is regulated by the law to protect and assist children and youth who live in conditions detrimental to their health and development. Children and parents in need of assistance are met by the local CWS, which has several possible support and treatment initiatives, varying with the severity and origin of problems as well as the age of the child (Langford, Skivenes, and Søvig 2019).…”

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Every tenth child: Heterogeneity in characteristics and life-course patterns among children in contact with child welfare services

Borgen¹,

Frønes²,

Raaum³

2022

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Every tenth Norwegian child has been in contact with the child welfare services (CWS) before age 18. This paper describes the variation in background characteristics of CWS children with different types of services and their life-course trajectories from ages 10 to 25, compared to other children. We use high-quality population-wide Norwegian register data, covering about 860 000 children from birth cohorts 1987-2001, of which roughly 85 000 have received a CWS initiative. CWS children typically have lower socioeconomic backgrounds than other children. In terms of individual outcomes, they are more likely to have a criminal charge, be prescribed drugs for mental health and ADHD, fail in the educational system, and experience labor market marginalization. However, the heterogeneity among CWS children receiving different initiatives is more pronounced than differences between those in contact and those not. Adolescents with multisystemic therapy (MST) have the most unfavorable life-course patterns, in line with children in childcare institutions. Still, MST youth enter CWS late and have an advantaged family background compared to other CWS children, suggesting that individual-level risk factors are particularly important for sorting into MST.

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Section: Study Contextmentioning

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Every tenth child: Heterogeneity in characteristics and life-course patterns among children in contact with child welfare services

Borgen¹,

Frønes²,

Raaum³

2022

Preprint

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“…Based on the referrals, we assume that violence is a concern the CPS is handling regularly. In the Norwegian system there is not extensive use of schematic guidelines and checklists to determine risk for a child (Skivenes 2011;Falch-Eriksen and Skivenes 2019). The Norwegian child protection system is a family orientated and childcentric system aimed at providing support for families and to prevent more intrusive measures (Skivenes 2011;Hestbaek et al, in press).…”

Section: Norwegian Child Protection System and Legislationmentioning

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Justifying interventions in Norwegian child protection

Løvlie

Skivenes

2021

Nord J Law Soc

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How are decisions about care orders of children in cases about violence justified? What important accounts are considered? In an in-depth analysis of 94 written care order decisions from the Norwegian County Boards, we examine decision-makers arguments and hereunder if there are differences in cases about migrant and non-migrant families. The analysis shows that justifications are largely rooted in a pragmatic discourse focusing on risk-levels, drawing on empirical evidence of violence. Additionally, there is a pragmatic-ethical discourse rooted in the decision-makers assessment of parents’ ability to change their behaviour, to meet the children’s needs, highlighting parental denial of violence and blaming the children. This serves the decision-makers in justifying whether the necessary care for the children is possible to attain. We find only a few differences between migrant and non-migrant cases: parents’ denial is more prevalent in migrant cases; in non-migrant cases consequences for the child is more prevalent; and more evidence of strong direct violence in migrant cases.

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Rights and Transformation

Langford¹

2019

From Transitional to Transformative Justice

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Children’s Rights in Norway

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Every tenth child: Heterogeneity in characteristics and life-course patterns among children in contact with child welfare services

Every tenth child: Heterogeneity in characteristics and life-course patterns among children in contact with child welfare services

Justifying interventions in Norwegian child protection

Rights and Transformation

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