Enhancing Children’s Rights: Connecting Research, Policy and Practice

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Rights, Research and Policy....Pages 3-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Reforms to Healthcare Systems and Policies: Influences from Children’s Rights....Pages 17-32
Changing the Law on Physical Punishment in New Zealand....Pages 33-47
The Child’s Right to Play: Laying the Building Blocks for Optimal Health and Weil-Being....Pages 48-61
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Early Childhood Services in England: Policy, Research and Practice....Pages 65-79
Early Childhood Education in New Zealand: Progress and Challenges in Achieving Children’s Rights....Pages 80-94
Children’s Rights and Early-Years Provision in India....Pages 95-107
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Child Protection: Policies for Vulnerable Children in New Zealand....Pages 111-126
Children in Care: Global Perspectives on the Challenges of Securing Their Well-Being and Rights....Pages 127-139
Children and Young People Leaving Care....Pages 140-150
Family and Care Policies for Children in the Former Soviet Union: What Is Changing in Russia and Lithuania?....Pages 151-164
Child Rights and Well-Being in Latin America: A Role for Conditional Cash Transfers?....Pages 165-179
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Taking Account of Children: How Far Have We Come in England?....Pages 183-196
Young People as Leaders in (and Sometimes Victims of) Political and Cultural Change....Pages 197-213
Children’s Rights and Weil-Being: Tensions within the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014....Pages 214-227
“Vi ere en nasjon vi med?” “We are a nation, we?”: Children’s Rights in Norway — Research, Policies and Practices....Pages 228-241
Children’s Views and Participation in Family Dispute Resolution in New Zealand....Pages 242-255
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Conclusion: Challenges for Research on Children’s Rights....Pages 259-273
Back Matter....Pages 274-349