Promoting Children's Rights in Social Work and Social Care

A Guide to Participatory Practice

Margaret Bell

Part of the Children in Charge series

Paperback: £21.99 / $36.95

2011, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 224pp
ISBN: 978-1-84310-607-4, BIC 2: JKSB1 JKSN JKS LBBR

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Series editor's foreword. Mary John, University of Exeter, UK. Introduction. Part 1. 1. What is Participation? Definitions, Arenas and Outcomes. 2. What is Participation? Different Methods. 3. The Policy and Background to Participatory Practice. 4. The Theoretical Underpinnings of Participatory Practice. 5. What Gets in the Way? Adult Attitudes, the World in Which Children Live and Organisational Culture and Values. Part 2. Introduction: Research Studies on Children's Experiences of Participation. 6. The Involvement of Children in Family Group Conferences. 7. The Participation of Children in Initial Child Protection Investigations. 8. The Participation of Children in Social Work Electronic Records. 9. Children's Views on their Involvement in Service Evaluation and Design: the RUBeing Heard Project. 10. Implications for Practice. 11. Conclusion. References. Author Index. Subject Index.

Author information

• Margaret Bell

Subject areas

• Health, Social Work and Social Care

Keywords

• advocacy,
• child protection,
• children,
• children's rights,
• law,
• safeguarding children,
• social care,
• social policy,
• social work,
• social work law

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