Professional Practice in Child Protection and the Child's Right to Participate

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Contributor Bios
Preface
1 Children’s Right to Express Themselves in Child Protection Casework
	The Normative Bias to Professional Practices – The Case of Article 12 of the CRC
	Article 12 and the Human Rights Standard
	Human Rights Standard, the Fiduciary Role of CPS, and the Child’s Best Interests
	Regulating CPS through Human Rights
	Rights-Based Practice and Discretion
	The Progression of the Book
2 Rights-Based Professional Practice: Situating the Academic Discourse
	Decisions in the Best Interests of the Child
	Meaningful Participation of Children and Participation Models
	Children’s Participation in the Decision-Making Process
	Professionalism in Children’s Participation in Child Welfare Practices
	Acknowledgement
3 Professional Child Protection and the Child’s Freedom of Expression
	Constitutional Rights, Optimisation Requirements, and Professional Practice
	The Human Rights Standard
	The Human Rights Standard and Indivisibility of Human Rights
	Violation of Dignity as Violation of Best Interests
	Child’s Best Interests and the Right to Liberty
	Professional Practice and CRC Article 12
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgement
4 The Case of Assessment: Child Participation during Administrative Proceedings
	Assessment Framework
	Children’s Experiences of Participation in Child Protection Assessment
	Concluding Thoughts on Meaningful Child Participation – Moving towards Rights-Based Professional Practice
	Acknowledgement
5 Child Protection Workers Follow-up with Children in Foster Care and Emergency Units/Homes
	What Follow-up Do Children Placed in Care Receive?
	Rights and Follow-up through ‘a common third’
	The ‘Alex’ Case
	The Different Follow-up Components
	The Role and Importance of Article 12 in Relation to Follow-up
	Safeguarding Human Rights and the Core Activity of Social Work. Two Sides of the Same Coin?
6 The Case of Social Rehabilitation
	Rights-Based Practice in Rehabilitation
	Rights-Based Practices through Child-Friendly Justice
	Components of Interprofessional Collaboration in Social Rehabilitation through CFJ
	Case Examples: Perceptions on Participation among Dually Involved Children
	Concluding Remarks: Improving Participation for Dually Involved Children in Practice
7 Participation of Children in Residential Care
	Residential Care
	Rights and Residential Care
	The Example from an Ethnographic Study in Estonia: The Need to Feel Loved
	Child Citizenship in the Context of Residential Care
	Conclusion
8 Conclusion: Making Rights a Part of Professional Practice
	Article 12 and Professional Practice
	Rights-Based Professional Practice
	Child Participation – Some Key Notions
	An Example of Active Child Participation: Active Listening through Storytelling
	Conclusion: The Reality of Rights
Index