Hearing the child

Archard, David; Skivenes, Marit

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2206.2008.00606.x

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“…We focus on one fundamentally important principle, namely that the actors who are the subject of state-level intervention are given sufficient opportunities to be involved in the decision-making processes that concern them. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), article 12, states that children should be involved in these processes to the extent that they are heard, that their perspectives and interests are included and considered, and that they are given adequate information so that they can make informed choices about their circumstances and options (Archard & Skivenes, 2009a). Children, however, are unique actors as their capacity to make informed choices and voice their opinions is constrained by age, development, and maturity.…”

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Children's involvement in care order decision-making: A cross-country analysis

Berrick

Dickens

Pösö

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Child Abuse & Neglect

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a b s t r a c tThis international comparative paper examines how child protection workers in four countries, England, Finland, Norway, USA (CA), involve children in decision making regarding involuntary child removal. The analysis is based on 772 workers' responses to a vignette describing preparations for care order proceedings. We examine children's involvement along three dimensions including information given to the child, information gathered from the child, and opportunities for their perspectives and interests to be considered. Results show that child protection workers weigh children's involvement differently based upon age. Staff in the four countries were more likely to talk with an older child, to provide information, to gather information, and to include in relevant decision making if the child were 11 compared to five in our vignette. Although the Nordic countries and England provide policy guidance regarding children's role in child protection decision making, we did not see consistently higher indicators of children's involvement from the respondents in these countries. Using child protection system frames to analyze the findings did not produce consistent differences between the family service systems and child protection systems included in this study. Findings highlight the wide range in practices concerning children's involvement in decision making, and the wide space for professional discretion in implementing practice with children at the local level.© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. IntroductionRemoval of a child from parental care to public care is a serious state intervention in the private relations of children and their parents. Children, the subject of removal, are sometimes involved in decisions about their separation, but they are not necessarily engaged as agents of their fate. Some states make explicit through legislation an expectation that children are involved in determining their future; others are silent on children's participation. And because we know that child protection workers, as street-level bureaucrats (Lipsky, 2010), sometimes employ wide discretion in their work with families, we do not know whether workers in various state systems are more or less inclusive of children's voice. This international comparative paper examines how child protection workers in England, Finland, Norway, and the US (California) involve children in decision making regarding preparations of a possible involuntary child removal. We refer to child protection workers as a common term across countries, even though each country may use different terms to describe front-line workers in their child welfare system. We use the term care order proceedings to refer to the court processes that authorize the separation of a child from his/her parent(s), and care order preparations for the agency-based policies and practices that help determine whether and when to make an application to the court. We examine children's involvement along three dimensions including information given to the child, inf...

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Children's involvement in care order decision-making: A cross-country analysis

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Child Abuse & Neglect

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“…To gain wider acceptance of giving children a stronger voice in medical decision making about their healthcare, more evidence about the outcome of shared decision making and certainly more familiarity with the UNCRC is needed [3,19]. To support the latter, we present a practical checklist, which shows the relevance of the UNCRC to the daily pediatric practice in the form of practical questions vis-à-vis the articles of the UNCRC ( Table 3).…”

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Children’s rights in pediatrics

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The United Nations Convention of Children's Rights (UNCRC) introduced in 1989 has generated a global movement for the protection of children's rights and has brought about a paradigm change in how children are perceived. Pediatric healthcare professionals are interacting with children and therefore with children's rights on a daily basis. However, although at least 18 of the 54 articles are relevant for pediatric practice, there is limited systematic training on how pediatricians can support children's rights in the clinical setting. This article discusses the principles and aims of the UNCRC and proposes a comprehensive checklist of rights vis-à-vis issues that arise in clinical practice.

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“…In addition to this, theatre has been used to support inclusive practices (for example, Bayliss & Dodwell, 2002). Optimising opportunities for children to share their views is a fundamental right which can make a difference to service development and delivery (Archard & Skivenes, 2009). Despite a developing evidence base, there remains a world of opportunity which remains inadequately explored (Archard & Skivenes, 2009).…”

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Introducing Forum Theatre to elicit and advocate children’s views

Hammond

2013

Educational Psychology in Practice

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Eliciting and advocating the voice of the child remains at the heart of international political agenda and also remains a central role for educational psychologists (EPs). Previous research indicates that EPs tend to use language-based methods for eliciting and advocating views of children. However, these approaches are often limited. Taking a case study approach this paper aims to explain how the use of Forum Theatre offers EPs a legitimate way of eliciting and advocating the views of children. The study worked with seven Year Six children to create a Forum Theatre Performance which was performed in front of the whole school (spect-actors). Focus groups were held with teachers (n = 3) and children (n = 6) from within the school. This study uses a semantic deductive thematic analysis to explain underlying emancipatory processes within the context of a small rural primary school. The results of this study support previous literature demonstrating that Forum Theatre has a wealth of emancipatory processes which might optimise the approach being used to elicit and advocate for the voice of the child. Practical applications and limitations are discussed with some suggestions for further research

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Hearing the child

Cited by 111 publications

References 14 publications

Children's involvement in care order decision-making: A cross-country analysis

Children's involvement in care order decision-making: A cross-country analysis

Children’s rights in pediatrics

Introducing Forum Theatre to elicit and advocate children’s views

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